Here is a site on peppers that you may find interesting:

http://www.chili-pepper-plants.com/html/growing_peppers.html 

BTW ... Intel is absoultely correct in what he wrote, except for one small point. All plants need a fertilizer of some type, to resist disease and insect damage, but don't over do it!

Too much fertilizer (especially with tomatoes and peppers) ... you will produce more 'green' growth, at the expense of the 'flowering and fruit'.

Remember what the NPK stands for on the bag of fertilizer.

N --- Nitrogen is the first major element responsible for the vegetative growth of plants above ground. With a good supply, plants grow sturdily and mature rapidly, with rich, dark green foliage ...

P --- Phosphate, the second major element in plant nutrition, phosphorus is essential for healthy growth, strong roots, fruit and flower development, and greater resistance to disease ...

K -- Potassium (Potash) is the third major plant nutrient, and potassium oxide is essential for the development of strong plants. It helps plants to resist diseases, protects them from the cold and protects during dry weather by preventing excessive water loss.

Nutrient values (N-P-K) are expressed as total percentage of weight as packaged. Organic nutrients typically tend to have lower NPK values than chemical nutrients. Don't let this fool you, you can easily burn plants if you overfertilize!

I can't keep the damn things from growing. I planted three....two varieties of cherry tomato's and one roma. The next year we had 6 plants growing. After they died back..we planted other plants in the yard and danged sure enough...we got about 10 tomato plants poking through. All of them produced enough tomato's for a small veggie stand.

Sorry I can't help yo get difficult plants started I need help in getting these damned things to stop growing...LOL.

Tomatoes are all that I grow. I put in about 10 plants. Mine are all beefsteak type hybrids. I used to plant a couple Early Girls and Pearls thinking I would elongate the harvest. No matter what, they come in at the end of July through August here in Maryland so I just plant the big ones now. You know, the kind where one thick slice covers a whole piece of bread. Add a little mayo, a slice of cheese, some bacon and eat 'em 'til you have blisters in your mouth from the acid. That's summertime!

Thanks for the info Slim. Ya I'm just playing mad doctor with the cross polination thing. I will plant a regular crop next year. I will plant the harvisted seeds from this year just for fun. I bought seedling this year. Next year it will be from the seed, I'll start them over the winter and then transplant.

Intel,

Ya it seems that I'm watering my tomatoes, which are in pots, an awefull lot. But the leaves become really wilted like the plant is starting to die. I become concerned and then water. If I let the plant go more than 2 dats without water, they start to wilt. As far as the fertillizer, I'm following the Miricle Grow Vegi fertillizer instruction, every 7-10 days. This fertillizer is much weaker than the all purpose and is intended for plants like tomatoes. But if I'm over doing it I'd sure like to know. Should I stop adding the fertillizer?.

Hey some of my BeefEaters are just starting to turn color, will they keep getting bigger through this process? I do have a lot of tomatoes on my plant, around 40, the plant is 3 feet high. some branches have 3-4 tomatoes clumped together all around the same size. I suppose I should be pruning some of these, I just feel guilty killing the little guys. What do you think? What does everyone think?