I've been growing indoor hydroponic Rainbow Bell Peppers and Basil to satisfy my green thumb this winter. After a few basil harvests, peppers have started to grow from the pepper plant blooms.
It's been almost twelve weeks since I first planted the two Rainbow Bell Pepper, and multiple sweet basil seeds into the clay pebble medium of the indoor hydroponic grow setup. I had two basil harvests, and then seven weeks ago the lights were set to bloom (12hrs ON/12hrs OFF). There have been many flower blossoms since then, they started to show up four weeks ago.
It looked like some of the flower blossoms were already starting to grow peppers but I wanted to do some cross pollinating to be sure all blooms turned into peppers.
Pollination by Hand
Not sure if this is necessary with this variety of peppers, some varieties need to cross flower pollinate, usually a breeze, bees, or other bugs can handle this, but for an indoor grow it might need to be done manually.
A small paint brush makes it easy, tickle one flower, then another, and so on.
I noticed one of the flowers was already growing a pepper, the inside of the flower had turned green like the skin of a pepper.
This Rainbow Bell Pepper variety seems to not have needed pollination, the new flowers seem to quickly begin growing a pepper.
Two Weeks Later...
Two Weeks Later there are many more flowers and flower buds appearing, many peppers are beginning to grow.
The pepper in the picture below is starting to grow to a decent size.
Check out those happy hydroponic roots.
I have to add two liters of water every two weeks, along with half a cap of the bloom formulated hydroponic grow nutrients.
Current Growth
Four weeks into bloom time, twelve weeks of total growth, many peppers are starting to grow from the flowers.
Many more flower buds are growing in the upper canopy, I see many peppers are on the way for this pair of Rainbow Bell Pepper plants.
@mraggaj