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Seed saving Bell pepper seeds

By geekgardener, on February 24th, 2010%

Its so surprising how a capsicum/bell pepper plant with many peppers hanging on them, makes people go crazy . Anyone who came home when I have mature peppers in the plant, goes back with some seeds of the same.

Tell me, who doesn’t love to have a plant like this.. This capsicum variety is called “Banana Early Sweet”. It tastes sweet. Don’t confuse this to the variety that is used for Bajji ( That is little hot).

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This post is about how to save the seeds from this pepper .

Things you need:

  • Ripe pepper ( ripened while in the plant).
  • A knife
  • A plate
  • Bright well ventilated location.

First let the pepper ripe well in the plant. It should look like this

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Pluck the peppers.

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Cut them open and carefully scoop out the seeds. The seeds are in the central stalk. Use the flesh for your cooking ;) .

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The seeds will be wet and they need little bit of drying. Spread them in a plate and keep them in a ventilated location that is bright as well. Don’t dry them in direct sunlight.

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Once dried, the seeds will start looking like this.

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Put them in a packet, Label them and store them in a cool dry place. If you have plenty you can also think of sharing it with a gardening buddy of yours.

GG

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Updates from the greenhouse – Hydroponic tomatoes

By geekgardener, on February 7th, 2010%

Almost a month over after the greenhouse is completed and the plants were put in place. I had the Beefsteak tomato plants just started flowering when I kept them inside the greenhouse and it looks like they like the greenhouse environment.

The varieties of tomatoes, I have growing my greenhouse are

“Marmande” – A beef steak variety.

“Pink of Berne” – A pink beef steak variety

These tomatoes are grown Hydroponically using Cocopeat as the medium.

Take a look at this flower, its actually two flowers conjoined( called a Mutant). When you get a flower like this, you are in for a big surprise. You will get a huge tomato. In the coming pictures you will see what I meant by huge.

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A few days later, you see this beauty, ( rather boaty). This is Marmande. A variety from France.

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Few more days later….look at the sepals

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This is how it looks now. Its a handful. I am just waiting for it to ripe and it is taking too long(may be it is still growing).

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The plant is not done yet, it has multiple trusses all with big sizes like this. The plant had to be staked properly as it has to hold the fruits in addition.

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Here comes the variety called Pink of Berne.

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Checkout the fruit cluster below.

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Here is Banana Early Pepper plant, yielding like crazy in 6x6x6 inches bag filled with Cocopeat.

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Here is another set of transplants growing in trays..

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Its not just tomatoes and peppers in the greenhouse. There is beans, Cauliflower, Lettuce, Spinach, Chow-Chow( Chayote) and Chillies, I will post more pics as and when they are ready for a pose.

Till then,

Grow some veggies

gg

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