determinate/indeterminate

[habman]

Is there such a thing for peppers?
Determinate are varieties that ripen all their fruit in a short period, usually about 2 weeks. Once this first flush of fruit has ripened, the plant will begin to diminish in vigor and will set little to no new fruit.

 

[POTAWIE]

Only tomatoes I believe.

 

[willard3]

I don't know the technical answer, but I have lots of empirical evidence that chiles continue to fruit and flower at about the same rate for 3 or 4 years....I've had them do the same for 9 years in one case.

 

[chilehunter]

I thought the meaning of determinate or indeterminate was about their growth ? one meaning they only grow so big & the other it keeps growing & its only limited by the area to grow in or the root system it can develop. (the plant)

 

[Pam]

Is there such a thing for peppers?
Determinate are varieties that ripen all their fruit in a short period, usually about 2 weeks. Once this first flush of fruit has ripened, the plant will begin to diminish in vigor and will set little to no new fruit.

Peppers are perennials, so that nomenclature doesn't apply.

IIRC, there is a school of thought on growing peppers that suggests pinching or trimming back some of the branches on a plant so that there are peppers at all stages of growth and ripening on one plant. The idea behind it is that peppers produce in waves, then there is a gap while more peppers grow and ripen, then another wave, etc.

I don't do that. I've never observed a discernible pattern of production, rest, production that wasn't related to husbandry; but a lot of people swear by it.