pepper question

[dandelion]

I sowed peppers 'Topepo'  in February. The plants are on my window sill and -though looking healthy- still quite small (approx. 15 cm tall). Now flower buds have appeared. Should I remove these? I can't imagine such a tiddly plant with fruit (even if this variety has quite small fruit). And when should I plant them out? They will go on my plot in a pop-up greenhouse.

[dandelion]

[slowfood]

That's where your chillis will be soon, so no don't remove the buds. 15" sounds not too bad either.

[Philbasford]

I only planted my chllis a few weeks ago, it was an after though, not to late i hope?. they are going nicely though

[MollyBloom]

15cm is only about 6", not 15", so I too think these plants are a bit small to be bearing flowers. On the other hand, I wouldn't pinch them off either, as you want all the fruit you can get from them! Sometimes plants will try to flower when they're stressed, so as to set seed quickly before they die. Being root-bound might set that process off. Could be worth potting them on and putting them outside in this warm weather (just during the day - take them in at night). That could slow the flowering process down a bit.

[dandelion]

Thanks! I'll put them outside during the day. I don't think they need repotting yet.
By the way, they are sweet peppers, not chilli peppers.

[carloso]

my question was to be how tall do they grow ?

Presently about err 2ft 6" and started to divide into 2 or 3 shoots , they are already in the last pot err bucket where they will stay for the rest of there lives (except compost heap of course lol)

do i need to do anything to them ?

[tim]

dd - these are my Topepo. They will go into the cold 'house in a couple of weeks. Hopefully!

Good thinking, MB - but if mine were that size now, I would put them out under cover. So long as there is a good root-ball. And I'm afraid I would take out the buds - as with cus - you want strong growth now. Don't know.

Carloso - depends on variety - typically up to 3'.

[stuffed]

My sweet peppers last year (only time I've grown them) carried on flowering for quite a long time so I would expect (guessing) if you take the flowers off now they will concentrate on growing and flower some more later.

[tim]

There will still be flowers in October!! But too late to form fruit.

[dandelion]

In that case I'll remove the flowerbuds, harden the plants of for a week and then plant them out on my plot in the pop-up greenhouse :).