Pepper Plants Flowers

Question

My hot pepper plants are producing lots of flowers. I keep picking these flowers off, but I was told not to do so as these flowers produce or turn into peppers or fruits. My doing so does not seem to affect the plants from producing peppers. I have 30 pots of these pepper plants and noticed that some plants produce much more than others with amounts in between with others. I have never seen any fruits being produced from any developed flower. My question is, do fruits develop from the flowers or from the buds?

Answer 1

Yes, most all plants that produce fruits do so from their flowers. Once the flowers have pollinated, the small fruits begin to form. You evidently missed a bloom or two (but with that many plants it’s hard not to) in order to have still produced peppers. My advice…leave the flowers and reap the peppers.