So today I woke up like any other day. Make lunch, make breakfast and straight to checking out the plants before heading to work. I found 5-10 flowers on the ground brownish deadish looking color but a lot of flowers still standing and plenty of pods. Plant looks good, no lil pests To be found no yellow leaves I have no clue ? Is this normal ? Am I doing something wrong.? Will take pics when I get back home.
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Morning check before heading to work, found this
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Relax. Most likely the flowers were pollinated and when that happens they die.
nothing to worry about, it happens
millworkman said:
plaisir8 said:
Pretty sure that was what mill was getting at. Most likely, just a typo.
flowers drop a LOT. Annoying but sadly...common.
Usually most plants do manage in the end though.
Something I find causes a lot of flowers and tiny pods to drop is when the plant hits its "fruit load" limit, i.e. it has a sort of set amount it can grow dependent on its size (and other things), once it hits that, it ditches the other pods and flowers for a while.
This is why many people pinch buds off and force as much growth as poss before flowering happens.
Usually most plants do manage in the end though.
Something I find causes a lot of flowers and tiny pods to drop is when the plant hits its "fruit load" limit, i.e. it has a sort of set amount it can grow dependent on its size (and other things), once it hits that, it ditches the other pods and flowers for a while.
This is why many people pinch buds off and force as much growth as poss before flowering happens.
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ColdSmoke said:
Pollination is how the flower becomes "pregnant" and starts to produce the pods. Without pollination you will not have any pods.
ColdSmoke said:
No, that is not the norm. Now I'm not going to say that never happens. I've not personally experienced it before with pepper plants. But I have had the occasion with zucchini. Usually an unpollinated female flower on a zucchini plant will shrivel up and fall off. But I have had some instances where the zucchini grew anyway but stayed long and slender with zero seeds inside. So for that very reason, I wouldn't put it out the realm of possibility for peppers as well. But generally, if a flower is unpollinated, it will eventually be dropped by the plant.
Seedless Reapers... 'cuz when you are crunching into a big bowl of nuclear strength peppers, who wants to be bothered by a bunch of seeds?
Except most of the capsaicin is on the seed membrain.
