Bell Peppers Slow to Turn Color

I have one red bell pepper plant and one yellow. Each one has half a dozen
fairly large peppers and more coming but the peppers are staying green.

How long does it take for the color to turn on bell peppers? The plants
are healthy and thriving.

June, I can't give you an answer, but I've been watching my red bell pepper plant and wondering when the green peppers on it will turn red. I planted it in late May.

It seems everything around here is being slow to ripen this summer. The tomatoes are just turning red now, way past the usual time.

Depends on the cultivar, about three weeks on average from full size green bells. Some of the newer cultivars designed for ripe bells are faster. Fastest I have grown is Satsuma.

I couldn't plant until June 7th because of unexpected low temps in May.
My Red Beefsteak tomatoes are just now beginning to turn red but there
are a lot more on the plant that are still growing, much less turning color.
It's a challenge to grow vegetables here in the desert so all my plants
are in 12-gallon containers and that's worked well. I'll do it again next year
but will add one more tomato plant, perhaps an Early Girl.

We don't have many options here for cultivar selection, and I have neither
time nor space to start from seed. Lowe's pretty much carries "Bonnie"
brand plants and they have been very satisfactory for our needs.

With two tomato plants, two bell pepper plants, and one yellow straightneck
squash I've done pretty well for my first veggie garden! I've been able to
stay organic which was my goal.

There are just two of us and we decided "the definition of eternity is
two people and one squash plant!" ;-)

LOL! Squash is almost as bad as cucumbers! There's just two of us also. This year I wanted to make pickles so I planted six cukes. We have enough pickles to last us for several years and that's with me giving several jars to my grandson (he LOVE'S my lime-cured sweet pickle slices!). I'm still eating them fresh but, thank goodness, the plants are on their last legs.

Try removing the odd leaf to let more light onto the fruit, I have to do this with my indoor tomato's due to our very short growing season, only remove the odd leaf that is shading the fruits or the lack of foliage may stop the plants uptake of moisture to the fruits. good luck I am sure all will work out well. WeeNel.

Well, one of you must have cast a spell on my reluctant bell
peppers. One of them is now almost fully bright orange-ish yellow
and I swear it was just plain green this morning.

Keep those magical spells coming! ;-)

Bell peppers take forever to turn color. That's why I've pretty much switched to growing Carmen, Golden Marconi and others which taste the same but are more productive and ripen faster.

Wow, when the turn color they sure do it fast.
Here's one that began turning this morning.

And the same pepper four hours later!
By morning this one should be fully yellow.

Produce prices here are outrageous since so many
things are trucked in from California or Texas. Yellow
and red bell peppers often cost $2.79 each, and the
orange bells cost as much as $3.79!

That's why I decided to grow my own.

Well done June, apart from the cost, your peppers will taste better, you know exactly what has been used to grow them and even what chemicals have been used IF any, also they last longer on the plant than stored in the refrigerator too. next year you should also try other things to grow in large containers, it is fun. Good luck. WeeNel.

The posts on this thread have given me reason to hope that the half-dozen big beautiful but still very green peppers on my "red pepper" plant may yet turn color.

I agree with WeeNel on the fun of container growing. This year I have the aforementioned peppers, green beans, sugar snap peas, lettuce, spinach and tomatoes, all container-grown. It seems easier to avoid pests and diseases with container growing (although the pesky chipmunks can get into anything!)

Three of my eight yellow bell peppers have just now turned color
and are almost ready to pick. The red bells are all much smaller and
still green. Both plants are in 10 gallon containers and are beautifully
healthy, just not turning color easily. They were planted on June 7th,
delayed because we had unseasonably cold spells.

Bell peppers just seem to take a lot of patience. They tease you by
producing beautiful fruit, then holding off on the color.

Hey June! Congratulations on your first veggie garden. Same story here but I planted 2 tomato, 1 green bell pepper, 1 artichoke and 1 watermelon. A hornworm devoured the bell pepper in one night but it has rebounded and there is one pepper of decent size on it. The shape is somewhere between a chili pepper and a bell pepper you see in the store. Since it isn't going to turn color I'm wondering how to tell when it is ready to pick? The tomatoes are producing like gangbusters right now.
Our back yard is small and 75% of it is a deck. We have decided to remove half the deck and plant a bunch more veggies next year. We are hooked. I've never seen Kent smile any bigger than when he picks and eats one of his 'maters.