Can I plant bell pepper seeds? And if so, how long after they have been taken from a fresh pepper? thanks!?

Question

I want to grow some nice red bell peppers and thought I would take some of the seeds and plant them. Should I wait and dry them out or can I plant them right into soil fresh?

Answer 1

Yes - I have about 15 different pepper plants in my backyard.

You may be best off buying a pack of seeds as many peppers you get at the store have been sterilized, so the seeds are worthless. If you got the pepper from a farmers market, though, you might be okay.

Still, you can get a variety seed pack for like $1.50.

Shouldn't matter if you dry them for long - if they're fertile, they'll grow. Depending on where you live, though, it's probably too late in the season to start them now. Mine have only just started producing, and I planted the seeds in May.

Answer 2

I bought these cute little peppers(small bells)from my local Publix last year. They had been prepackaged in a plastic container by the grower.. Thought they were cute so I saved some of the seeds when I used the peppers. Dried out the seeds and stored them over the winter in a plastic air tight container(like a Tupperware) and planted them in March in some Miracle grow soil. I filled up a large planter with the planting soil and then I planted all the seeds, just spread them over the entire surface of the container and lightly covered them with soil . Watered them and made sure they got sun. I now have little bell peppers growing on my pepper plants. I can't wait to have some .I figure they will be ripe in another month.

Answer 3

The familiar green bell pepper we know, is really an immature pepper that is mature for its stage; in other words, it is fully developed, but not ripe. When a green pepper is left on the vine, it will eventually turn red, orange, purple, or even brown, depending on the variety. The red bell pepper is the most common mature pepper. (Yellow peppers can be found in immature and mature varieties.) As bell peppers mature, their sugar content increases, so they become sweeter, and develop more nutrients, primarily vitamins A and C.
When to Plant
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/veggies/peppers1.html
Peppers are best started from seeds indoors in late winter and then transplanted into the garden after the soil and air have warmed in the spring. The plants cannot tolerate frost and do not grow well in cold, wet soil.
Growing times/to maturity
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/veggies/peppers1.html
Most of the seeds from the ones in the store came from hybrid plants and they don't do as well as buying the hybrid seeds for planting.
Love those Red Bells.

Answer 4

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Can I plant bell pepper seeds? And if so, how long after they have been taken from a fresh pepper? thanks!?
I want to grow some nice red bell peppers and thought I would take some of the seeds and plant them. Should I wait and dry them out or can I plant them right into soil fresh?

Answer 5

A lot of fruits grown from seeds will take many generations to actually produce fruit themselves(ie sterile) Best way to do peppers is to get seedlings from a nursery and save the seeds from the peppers they produce then grow them. Yes you could be wasting your time but there is no way of knowing until you grow them.

Answer 6

I tried it. You will find this task a pain. Peppers do not grow easily at all. And they are so tiny as seedlings. you will have weeded them out without realizing that you did so.
Let them dry out. Fresh get moldy.

Answer 7

I KNOW YOU CAN GROW TOMATOES FROM FRESH TOMATO SEEDS....NO DRYING, PLANT RIGHT AWAY....DON'T KNOW ABOUT PEPPERS...BUT WILL TRY SAME WAY...KEY TO SPROUTING PEPPERS IS HEAT...THEY WILL SPROUT FASTER WITH GOOD HEAT...WE USE A HEATING PAD TURNED ON LOW....IT TAKES FIVE OR SIX DAYS TO SPROUT UP...HOPE THIS HELPS...THE INDIAN