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How to Grow Peppers and Chilies: Growing Guide to Planting, Care & Harvest

A group entry covering sweet and hot peppers grown from transplants in warm weather, harvested green or fully coloured.

Peppers and Chilies

Capsicum annuum

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.

Varieties (577)

577 peppers and chilies varieties have their own page, with days to maturity, growth habit, traits and uses. Listed by country: United States 575, United Kingdom 2.

See all 577 peppers and chilies varieties

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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Type the plant name, add the planting date, and take photos as it grows. Next season you will have your own dates for sowing, flowering, and harvest instead of a generic calendar.

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