Anyone familiar with these? Any tips on growing them? I picked up some seeds two years ago, but due to the recent cold winters, it's taken me this long to get one stinkin plant that's making peppers. I'm not sure if it's because of the cold, or if it's natural, but the plant grows one stem upwards and grows a couple leaves and then sheds them off, but continues to grow vertically. Basically for two years it was a green stick sticking up out of the dirt with a couple leaves on top.
Finally and only very recently it split off into a couple branches and the leaves are proliferating. It's about a two feet tall and I've got it propped up on a tomato rack. It's really top-heavy. Shortly after it split off, it made blossoms, and I manually pollinated with the ol' electric toothbrush trick. Now I've got four peppers (yeah, just four) and hopefully at least one will make it to maturity and make seed.
I've never grown hot peppers, so maybe this is normal? Is there any way to get them to make peppers in shorter than two full growing seasons?
(To Moderators - this would go really well in a new Gardening forum
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