Serious problems with bell peppers , pics inside

[rainbowberry]

Where's the bell pepper then?

 

[klyth]

roger

I don't know if those are peppers or not, but they're certainly unhealthy. I'd begin by cutting off the affected (infected?) leaves, as ABM said.

 

[Canuck Pepperhead]

I have 12 bell pepper plants in my garden with my hotties and I must say they just dont look like those at all..I drive over to my garden today I will double check...

 

[POTAWIE]

I don't see any peppers plants either. Also, you probably shouldn't start your seeds from pods you buy since you don't know what you're going to get.

 

[fineexampl]

i'm going to just say it.

In not one of your photos is there any plant remotely related to a pepper plant or any capsicum variety.

You've got some very well fertilized weeds. Probably overfertilized weeds.

My guess is that your seeds never germinated and you caught a bunch of alien weed seeds.

 

[rogert]

Hello again. Today I took some more photos of all the different plants living in my pots (5 varieties except varieties I know are weeds), I am 100% certain I have some peppers, they hang out in the bottom of the pots and are very small, the look exactly like the first variety I ever planted.

I also went to the store and bought some more bell peppers, a few jalapenos, and one large red spanish pepper, I planted these seeds in a miniature greenhouse.

Just going to resize some pics. bbl.

 

[fineexampl]

have you considered purchasing seeds from a garden store or similar?

 

[rogert]

have you considered purchasing seeds from a garden store or similar?

Yes of course, unfortunaltely we dont have any garden sores that carry peppers here.

Here are pics of one of the plants living in my pots, does everyone
agree this is NOT any kind of pepper?

 

[fineexampl]

Yes of course, unfortunaltely we dont have any garden sores that carry peppers here.

Here are pics of one of the plants living in my pots, does everyone
agree this is NOT any kind of pepper?

these are photos of "fat-hen". see here:
http://www.dgsgardening.btinternet.co.uk/fathen.htm

 

[klyth]

It does look an awful lot like the plant in that link.

 

[rogert]

these are photos of "fat-hen". see here:
http://www.dgsgardening.btinternet.co.uk/fathen.htm

Yes it is those have to go..

here is the second variety mysteryplant.

 

[rogert]

The fat hens have now been exterminated.

here is another one, this one is very large. I guess its not any pepper.

 

[rogert]

Does everyone agree I should rip out all plants except those that look like this

and this

?

 

[klyth]

Those look like pepper plants!

I would. Anything that you didn't plant is only going to steal water and nutrients from the stuff you did plant.

If you just want peppers, make sure you only have peppers!

 

[fineexampl]

Those look like pepper plants!

I would. Anything that you didn't plant is only going to steal water and nutrients from the stuff you did plant.

If you just want peppers, make sure you only have peppers!

I concur. Those most certainly look like pepper shoots. Pull out everything else. Now that you found them, the rest should be a bit easier. The leaves pretty much stay the same rounded shape into adulthood aside from maybe some wrinkling. If it doesn't look like a pepper, always take it out. Weeds will bleed you dry of all nutrients intended for your pods.

 

[alawn]

Does everyone agree I should rip out all plants except those that look like this

and this

?

These are peppers. You just couldn't see them with all of the weeds. Pull everything else out.

 

[rogert]

That was so strange, I didnt think all pepper plants would have the same look so I assumed the other ones were peppers also, big mistake. Anyway they will be gone by tomorrow.

 

[fineexampl]

That was so strange, I didnt think all pepper plants would have the same look so I assumed the other ones were peppers also, big mistake. Anyway they will be gone by tomorrow.

In a way your right. Some have larger leaves, some have smaller. I have 2 habanero plants. One red/orange (unsure) and one chocolate hab. The chocolate hab has big gigantic leaves, but the other one has very small leaves. Generally they will all have the same characteristics and the flowers are usually identical aside from maybe the color. I think there's even a fuzzy pepper plant, but the leaves still look similar.

 

[AlabamaJack]

These are bell peppers...I bought the mixed color bell pepper seeds from WalMart. Not wanting to hijack your thread but wanted to show you what my bell pepper plants look like so you will know what to expect. The leaves on these plants are kind of raggedy but that is because my sprinkler hits them and shreds some of the leaves...

all the plants in the brown pots (including the black and white pot) in the row are bell peppers..

close up of a dark colored bell pepper

close up of a green bell pepper and two flowers....

I hope this helps you know what to expect...

Take a look around at the "porn" in this forum (gardening/growing) and you will see many many different varieties of peppers growing...

I will go out on a limb here and say if you have flowers on the top of the stems of the plants like in you pictures, those are NOT peppers...at least in my 8 years growing peppers I have not seen any....another thing is the scalloped, serrated leaves...I am not familiar with any pepper plants with those type leaves...I may be wrong on both counts and other members, please correct me if I am...I am just not familiar with any...

 

[rogert]

I will go out on a limb here and say if you have flowers on the top of the stems of the plants like in you pictures, those are NOT peppers...at least in my 8 years growing peppers I have not seen any....another thing is the scalloped, serrated leaves...I am not familiar with any pepper plants with those type leaves...I may be wrong on both counts and other members, please correct me if I am...I am just not familiar with any...

You are perfectly right, what was growing in my pots was not peppers, it was 3 or possibly 4 kinds of weeds, I was so excited since they were growing like crazy, especially in the coco fiber pot, I planted 3 varieties so I didnt suspect foul play when there was 3 different kinds of plant growing there.

Strange thing is that last year I bought like 5 or 6 bell peppers which I ate and planted out in the nature, nothing else was growing there and that crazy hen plant (which I thought was bell peppers) was all over the place, so I assumed those were bell peppers. Seems like that hen plant is a very efficient plant at growing whereever, dont know how it got here (or the other ones) but its here. For the record: the last 3 years all of those 3 varieties of weeds have grown in my pots, I just assumed those were some of the exotic breeds which needed a longer period of warm weather than we have here, I have fed and cared for those plants several years in a row hoping they would fruit some year.

Isnt it sad.