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22 Mar 10 Sacha (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

I planted 3 capsicum trees last September and have had some great produce over the summer. At the beginning of Feb they started looking sad and stopped producing fruit. I fertilised them and they have started producing fruit again but the fruit rots before it ripens on the tree. What should i do?

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08 Oct 10 Tassy Michele (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

Hiya Sacha & Nicole, Try picking the fruit when there is a darkish/brown patch (5 cent size) on bottom of fruit. This is when the fruit has started to ripen. I have purchased the green fruit at the supermarket like this and stored in the fruit bowl until it has ripened. Often green is cheaper than red at the supermarket. When you have too much to use fresh, slice/dice and freeze in small lots to use later --- great flavour to quiches, stirfry, rissotto etc. Cheers

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