Growing Peppers Indoors

[frustratedearthmother]

I couldn't do it. I'd like to be able to say I could - but I couldn't.

 

[tortoise]

Ha! frugal and tough! My houseplant collection couldnt handle it. Thats my excuse

We use wood heat most of the winter. Getting too hot is a problem then!

 

[Alaskan]

We have wood heat for the front part of the house where the living areas are, and a fuel oil space heater over by the bedrooms.

We haven't yet started up the wood stove... but as I age I am no longer as hardcore as I used to be.... so the heater over by the bedrooms has been turned on.

 

[FarmerJamie]

Do peppers grown indoors need hand pollination?

 

[Britesea]

 

[Alaskan]

Do peppers grown indoors need hand pollination?

All summer long I go out and shake my pepper and tomato plants.

Some years I have grown cucumbers and squashes that needed the male flower taken and used to fertilize the female ones. That is problematic since I wouldn't always have a male flower ready when I had female ones in need.

This year I grew a cucumber where you had to do nothing... every flower grows a baby cucumber.

 

[flowerbug]

I couldn't do it. I'd like to be able to say I could - but I couldn't.

mid-50s i've done here some times. you acclimate and wear more clothes. no biggie.

 

[Trying2keepitReal]

This year I grew a cucumber where you had to do nothing... every flower grows a baby cucumber.

Did you buy seeds from someone or know the name? My family love cukes and I make so many jars of pickles each year. Always looking for new types