--- title: "Green Bell Peppers" description: "Green bell pepper is fruit picked before it colours, a harvest stage rather than a colour genotype. Reference values with their Dutch sources, and what the crop asks of a greenhouse." canonical: "https://dutchgreenhouses.com/crops/sweet-pepper/green-bell-pepper" locale: "en" updated: "2026-08-11" --- # Green Bell Peppers > Part of: [Sweet pepper](/crops/sweet-pepper.md) · Provider: [DutchGreenhouses](/) Green bell pepper is block-pepper fruit picked before it colours, a harvest stage rather than a colour genotype. Every green pepper belongs to a cultivar with its own genetic ripe colour, and harvesting early releases the plant sooner, turning the same house over in a faster, more regular rhythm. Sweet pepper # Green bell peppers. A harvest stage, not a colour genotype. Green bell pepper is fruit picked before it colours. Every green pepper belongs to a cultivar with its own genetic ripe colour, and picking green is a commercial decision to take the fruit early rather than a property of the plant. The distinction matters because a crop planned as green still has to be recorded against its ripe-colour genotype, and confusing the two is the most common error in pepper project briefs. ## What the crop needs The plant is long-cycle on substrate and high wire under the block-pepper reference. Harvesting green releases the plant earlier, which changes the rhythm of set and the total number of picks across a season. The climate requirement is the same as for a ripe-coloured crop; what changes is the timing of the load the plant carries. ## What the greenhouse has to do Harvesting green releases the plant earlier, and that changes what the house has to carry. Fruit leaves before the colouring weeks, so the same structure and the same climate envelope turn over faster. Heating and screening are specified against a shorter occupancy per fruit, and the harvest rhythm the labour plan is built around is quicker and more regular than a ripe-colour crop’s. The plant underneath is unchanged. It is a long-cycle block pepper on a high wire, set-sensitive in the same way, needing the same steadiness through the setting weeks. What a green crop asks for on top is a house that can turn a faster harvest into a faster pack line, because the fruit arrives sooner and in a tighter rhythm. DutchGreenhouses® specifies the structure, climate, screening and irrigation around the pepper crop, its harvest stage and the local climate, so an early harvest rhythm is supported rather than improvised. Get in touch to plan a pepper greenhouse. ## Crop data Green bell peppers ### Day climate1,2,3 Air temperature 20–23 °C CO₂ concentration 750–800 ppm Sources (3) - Kas als Energiebron / WUR, 2025, project 24004 — Minimal-CO₂ fossil-free block pepper E045 - Kas als Energiebron / WUR, 2024, project 22014 — Resilient fossil-free block pepper E046 - WUR, 2017, GTB-1434 — Energy-efficient pepper with crop balance E048 Reference values, not a specification. Setpoints are calculated per greenhouse, crop and location. Related ## Other sweet pepper varieties and the systems behind them ### Red bell peppers The Dutch block-pepper baseline, carried to ripe colour. ### Yellow bell peppers A separate genotype class, not a shade of red. ### Orange bell peppers A separate genotype class, not a shade of red. ### Climate Heating, cooling, humidity control and carbon dioxide dosing. ### Hydroponics Substrate growing with drip supply and drain recirculation. ## Picked before it colours, and sold for that Green bell pepper is fruit taken at full size and before ripening starts. That is a decision about eating as much as about economics. Green is the least sweet of the block peppers and carries the least vitamin C of them, and it holds a firm, grassy character that ripe fruit loses. Cooks who want structure and bite in a dish reach for green on purpose. For the grower it is the cheaper fruit, because the plant is released as soon as the pepper is sized. The weeks a red crop spends colouring are weeks a green crop spends setting the next fruit, and the harvest rhythm is quicker for it. The early pick also travels better than ripe fruit, which is why green is the pepper most often shipped a long way. It arrives intact, but the trip still costs it firmness and moisture, and firmness is exactly what the format was chosen for. Growing near the market keeps the one quality green is bought for from being spent in transit. ### Nutrition facts Sweet pepper, green, raw Per 100 g Energy 20 kcal Fat 0.17 g Carbohydrate 4.64 g Sugars 2.4 g Fiber 1.7 g Protein 0.86 g Sodium 3 mg Potassium 175 mg Vitamin C 80.4 mg Source: USDA FoodData Central, FDC 170427 Questions ## Green bell pepper, asked and answered Is green pepper a different plant from red? No. It is fruit harvested before colouring. The plant belongs to a cultivar with its own ripe colour, which is recorded separately from the stage it is picked at. What does an early harvest change in the greenhouse? The turnover. Fruit leaves before the colouring weeks, so the same house carries a faster, more regular harvest rhythm, and the pack line and the labour plan are sized for that rather than for a ripe-colour crop. Why record the genetic ripe colour on a green crop? Because the cultivar behaves according to its genotype, not according to the stage it is picked at. A record that omits it cannot be compared with anything later. 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