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How to Grow Bell Pepper: Growing Guide to Planting, Care & Harvest

A thick-walled sweet pepper left on the plant to colour up red or yellow, needing a long warm season and support for the fruit.

Bell Pepper

Capsicum annuum var. grossum

Growing calendar

Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.

Sow / plantGrowingHarvest

Guides

Common problems

Start from what you can see on the plant.

Pests and diseases (49)

Bacterial WiltFusarium WiltPowdery MildewLate BlightTomato Spotted WiltBacterial CankerCucumber Mosaic VirusSclerotinia RotSouthern BlightPotato Virus YTobacco Mosaic VirusAnthracnosePepper Mild Mottle VirusTomato Mosaic VirusDamping-offBacterial Soft RotRoot RotRoot-knot NematodeGray MoldVerticillium WiltBacterial SpotLeaf SpotRing RotNecrotic MosaicNecrotic MottleZonate Necrotic SpotNecrotic Ring SpotNecrotic RingspotFalse Black MoldCalyx End RotMosaic DiseaseFruit RotFruit RotPlant-parasitic NematodesGray Leaf SpotWhite Leaf SpotSeptoria Leaf SpotFusarium Wilt and Damping-offBacterial DiseaseRugose Leaf MosaicBacterial Leaf BlightVein YellowingAscochyta BlightChlorotic NecrosisChlorotic MottleChlorosis DiseaseBlack MoldBlack BlightBlack Dot Root Rot

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