Growing Capsicum, also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers

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14 Nov 10 Sri (Australia - temperate climate)
Capsicum are biannual with the exception of sweet peppers they tend to be annuals. The trick with capsicum is to sacrifice (cut off) the fruit is produces until the plant is about 50cm tall its painfull because they are prolific while young but the problem with letting them produce straight away is the plant doesnt get any bigger then approx 30cm tall because its putting all its energy into the fruit rather than the plant. Once you get it to 50cm stake it and keep the food up to it (liquid food) and you should get 1 year to 18mths out of it.
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