How to speed up the ripening of bell peppers and get a big harvest: things that advanced gardeners do
Forming sweet peppers is an important procedure that allows you to improve the harvest.
What is this for?
To ensure better ventilation of the bushes, remove the lower pairs of leaves at the base of the plants.
Also remove the side shoots up to the first branching and the crown flower. It is usually also cut off so as not to slow down the setting of the main crop.
If the pepper is formed into two stems, the two largest shoots must be left on the bush.
Shoots that grow inwards should be cut off. To prevent the fruits from competing, extra buds are removed from different stems in a checkerboard pattern.
If the planting is dense, the peppers are grown on one stem.
Here the crown bud is left, the stem from the fork is not removed, but the shoots from the sides must be removed.
With this method, the peppers will set evenly and ripen faster.
Then the fruits can be harvested a couple of weeks earlier.
