A bell pepper plant will produce 8 to ten peppers at a time, and as many as thirty peppers can be produced by a tub, enough to supply one or two a day. The seeds take a week or two to germinate, and grow very slowly until they reach about 1 foot tall. Bell peppers will grow at any number from six to ten plants per tub, and will begin to produce peppers in about the sixth week.
Bell peppers form flowers that later turn into peppers.
The peppers form as a green bell shape, and can be picked green. As they ripen further they will turn yellow or red, depending upon the type. The red peppers have ten times the vitamin C as the green peppers, and so they are more nutritious fully ripened. Hot pepper are grown just as bell peppers, but must be kept away from bell peppers or the bell peppers will become hot as well. They grow best in pH of 5.5 to 7.0.