Hello Hive

It's been about 3weeks of active flowering for our scotch bonnet pepper and once flowering begins the next will be the development of the scotch bonnet pepper..
One thing I have realized is that once the pepper startes producing this can continue for about 3months.

The quantity of pepper will continue to increase and while they develop and get bigger, ripening also commenced alongside. These peppers do not wait for each other making it a continuous harvest, when some sets gets ripe and you harvest them today after an interval of a week, the next set of pepper will have been ready for harvest. This makes harvest a continuous weekly process until all the pepper for the year are plugged off. Some pepper trees can be biannual such that when you leave the dead plant stuck in the ground until the next year farming season, these peppers often rejuvenate and produce some more food before they eventually die off.

This is what we have found in the farm this morning, the flowery scotch bonnet plant is already producing flowers and while at it we can spot some peppers already.

This stage is an important stage in the growth of scotch bonnet pepper and any other specie of pepper, they need enough water now. It is the availability of water that makes them continue to produce enough pepper for a good period. Once water dries off from the pepper at the stage they will dry off and seed production will stop.

It is important to be consistent with irrigation at this stage, to prevent yellowing of leaves or even the death of the plant.