Pepper ?s

[Garfish]

Originally Posted by lil bubba

My cayene has a beautiful bush but no peppers but a load of small buds. My bell and banana peppers have a few on bottom but rest of bush just flower buds. Tomato's doing great. Actually picked about 10 or 12 of the first cluster from 6 plants. i think peppers got shocked with warm then really cool weather. i put about 4 tablespoons epson salt around each plant and they are super green...

Looking good lil Bubba. Got the same thing happening w/ my bell and japs. Germination could be an issue of some of the buds falling off. Haven't seen many wasps or bees yet this spring.

[Cappy]

Fine looking Bell peppers lil Buba thanks so much for sharing. I am very jealous on acounta though I have raised cayenes and jalapenos aplenty, I have never had any luck with bells. EVER!! Finally after consulting several ole green thumbed local guys they seem to think I need to add Epson salt to my soil. At first I thought they were nuts aint salt what they used to poison fields in da bible?? Well after doing some goggling i found out Epson salt aint exactly salt and got magnesium that the peppers need. Funny thing is bell planted 1 ft away from cayene same dirt the cayenes get huge and 1 plant will fill several gallon bags with peppers in a season. While I lucky to get a very few tiny bells. Gonna try salting a corner this week and putting in a bell to check this out. Will let yall know.