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18 Aug 13, Ash White (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

My capsicums have half of the skin covered in a brown scaly rough texture. it is also on the leaves aswell. Do you know what it is and how I can treat it? Cheers.

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16 Aug 13, J. Cosham (Australia - temperate climate)

Do Capicums like mostly shade, or should they be planted in full sun?

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15 Sep 13, ej (Australia - temperate climate)

Minimum of 6 hours of full sun per day.

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13 Jun 13, Frank Mc Elroy (Australia - temperate climate)

My capsicum prodused banana in the first instance, now have both on the same bushes, is there any reason for this.

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20 Apr 13, Lucy Mutara (South Africa - Humid sub-tropical climate)

Thanks for the info but my question is where i can buy seeds for about 2000 plants for yellow capsicums

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16 May 13, Micky Brand (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate)

Depends on what type of capsium you are looking for. For ordinary bell peppers try California Wonder. They grow quite easily. I don't know how well you know the cycle of the pepper, but yellow peppers actually come from the same plant as green and red. All peppers start out green - hence the name "green pepper". This is also the time to start picking them. However, if you leave them on the plant, the green pepper will turn yellow. If left longer it will turn orange, then red and finally purple. There's just one snag: your plant will produce more peppers if they are picked green than left to turn yellow, orange, red and purple which is probably why green peppers are so much cheaper then their brothers. I always found it difficult to grow peppers from seeds gotten from fruits bought in stores. Rather buy a dried, treated seed like Stykes and Ayres. There's a wonderful seller on Bid or Buy called Seeds for Africa. They sell all matter of seeds and have quite a variety of capsium seeds from peppers to chillies. You might want to check them out.

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07 Apr 13, sean james (Australia - temperate climate)

there is a great deal of bull Large ants on & around my capsicum plant & the leaves are falling off, why. pls.

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26 Mar 13, JamieG (Australia - temperate climate)

Space plants: 100 - 150 cm apart ! Surely that is a mistake. 50cm would be more than adequate. Plant them 1.5m apart and they would get downright lonely.

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17 Apr 13, CelesteL (Australia - temperate climate)

Agree space seems excessive. My thrive about 50 to 70cm apart

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08 Mar 13, Lee Pilgrim (Australia - temperate climate)

Are capsicums annual? ie do they just keep growing or will they die off? If the latter should I pull them up and plant seeds next Spring? The ones I have are taking over/overshadowing my other herbs/veg.

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