The Chileman challenge

[unconcerned]

Overwintered plants are fine, because they don't give any unfair advantage. Sure Mrs D has been able to post an entry sooner than most, but there is plenty of time for everyone. To the best of my knowledge, there is no evidence to say an overwintered, second season jalapeno will produce either larger or smaller pods than a new first season plant.

So while Mrs D basks in glory now, she knows well that there are over a hundred plants growing around the world and it is only a matter of time before one of them produces a larger pod... or is it.

[HeyWayne]

Is there a catergory for quickest plant death?

[Mrs Dobby]

Cool, thanks for the clarification Julian, I thought I hadnt seen anything in the rules about overwintrered plants, but as always I was still a little concerned, so glad that I can now put my mind to rest!

As for doing well, well, we diod ok last year, but this year I'm hoping we can do better, but as our Jalapeno isnt a particularly long podded variety, then we'll have to see! ;D

[mcsee]

Maybe someone reading this thread can help Wayne out with a seedling Jalapeno if they have one spare. :-)

All is not lost yet.

[momol]

Wayne, I sowed jalapeno twice (the second sowing was due to my mistake, I thought I haven't sowed any). Now I got 5 seedlings in total ( 2 seedlings from 1st sowing and 3 seedlings from 2nd sowing). You are welcome to have 2 or 3 seedlings, they are around 6to 12 true leaves .

[smallblueplanet]

Yay! First flower buds appearing on my purple jalapeno!

middle one, with purple colouring to leaves & stem.

[Alice]

Looking good SBP. Mine have just one pair of true leaves as they were late planted but I'm hoping for good results and a good crop.

[HeyWayne]

Blummin eck sbp, I ent even got a seedling yet.

I demand a drugs test.

[smallblueplanet]

Blummin eck sbp, I ent even got a seedling yet.

I demand a drugs test.

Thats where you've been going wrong HW, you're supposed to give the drugs to your plants to make them taller, not.....

[crichmond]

Your plants look very healthy sbp are you feeding them?
Ive got flowers and fruit all over my plants but the biggest fruit is only 3cm long (measured last night)

[smallblueplanet]

Lol! But we know you use witchcraft (aka lights!) on yours crichmond!

Its odd we've got about 12 peppers/chillis that were all planted at the same time (planted 2nd Feb some up by the 9th Feb), but the purple jalapeno and the hanoi red came thru 1st (with 3 others) and have been growing faster than the others ever since. (You can see the size difference in the picture above.) It would seem that not all peppers are created equally! Can't think of anything else to account for the big difference - I'll have another read back thru the diary to see if there was any reason.

They haven't had any 'food' other than whats in the compost until the big two were potted on into the black pots and the others just now into the square pots. We've put some 'fresh' bat poo in with the compost. Oh and a couple of times they had a weak seaweed feed in their water.

[crichmond]

Fresh bat poo... you got bats in the loft of your house or something Manda?

[smallblueplanet]

Lol! No I bought some 'unfresh' (rock) bat poo from caveman and I got a sample of the fresh stuff as a freebie. Which reminds me I better check when you use the 'old poo'!

[Seahorse]

Crikey! I'm going to have to give mine a hard stare and tell them to hurry up

Yours look great Manda. Do you have pics of yours Chris?

[shirlthegirl43]

I have seedlings one inch high - no true leaves yet.