Indoor habanero flowering profusely but no peppers
My habanero is making tons of little flowers, but the stems are very delicate and they keep just dropping off. Am I doing something wrong?
by Selection_Biased
7 Comments
DiscFrolfin
jboneng
The flowers need to be pollinated for fruits to form, so it might be the lack of pollination, or since it is indoor, it can also be that the humidity is too low, so the pollen has a harder time sticking to the pistil
MSDK_DARKDRAGON
Maaany flowers 🌸 They need the right temperature, right amount of nutrients and light in this stage (varies depending on the type and variety of plant) you also need something or someone to pollinate the flowers. You can shake it multiple times, do it with a brush or invite hoverflies, bees and other friendly guest to do the job for you. Besides of one species of Capsicum, can all be pollinated from their own flowers (self pollination)
Shake it baby shake it! 🤣
Queasy_Profit_9246
You take a little paintbrush, make buzzing sounds while gently getting all up in their business.
theegreenman
Add an oscillating fan
BenicioDelWhoro
That’s a pretty epic display of flowers! The plant’s indoors so likely no breeze for them to self pollinate, small paintbrush is your friend. But it might not be humid enough either, you could mist or fill a saucer with some water and those clay granules to raise the local humidty.
7 Comments
The flowers need to be pollinated for fruits to form, so it might be the lack of pollination, or since it is indoor, it can also be that the humidity is too low, so the pollen has a harder time sticking to the pistil
Maaany flowers 🌸 They need the right temperature, right amount of nutrients and light in this stage (varies depending on the type and variety of plant) you also need something or someone to pollinate the flowers.
You can shake it multiple times, do it with a brush or invite hoverflies, bees and other friendly guest to do the job for you. Besides of one species of Capsicum, can all be pollinated from their own flowers (self pollination)
Shake it baby shake it! 🤣
You take a little paintbrush, make buzzing sounds while gently getting all up in their business.
Add an oscillating fan
That’s a pretty epic display of flowers! The plant’s indoors so likely no breeze for them to self pollinate, small paintbrush is your friend. But it might not be humid enough either, you could mist or fill a saucer with some water and those clay granules to raise the local humidty.
it needs some wind to self pollinate