Pathetic Chillies

[Jungle Jane]

Your plants might like to be one per tin do your tins have holes in the base,must be difficult to make holes?

[Nicos]

You know…I’ve just had a thought
Marb, why don’t you contact that plant nursery and ask if you can speak with their head gardener with a view to taking in one of your plants to see what they advise how you might encourage better growth? They at least are experts in their field.

[Marb67]

Your plants might like to be one per tin do your tins have holes in the base,must be difficult to make holes?

Not at all, I have a special cone shaped metal drill bit from Lidl that makes light work of it.

[Marb67]

Well, these were fed with liquid feed weeks ago. Their roots are not showing through the soil so the size of pot isn't the issue. It's again duff seeds.

[ameno]

Seeds are not the problem. Once they get to the adult leaf stage then any issues they might have are not the fault of the seeds.
In your case, I think at this point most signs point to the compost being the issue.

[Marb67]

I take it these plants are bin fodder then ? Btw, I have them planted in different composts, Levingtons, Lidl and a couple of others I can't remember the names.

[Jungle Jane]

Roots might not come out the bottom of the pot but the roots would hit the sides of the pot,they wouldn’t be able to grow wide enough at the roots for the plant to be able to grow wider,the plants do want a wider pot to grow bigger. Once potted on into bigger pots you can see the growth spurt happen quite quick,within a couple of weeks. The roots can grow wider,then the plant has more stability for the top growth/fruit production. I couldn’t fault the compost,some other pepper plants are doing alright in the same compost.

[Marb67]

But I have turned the pots and lifted them out and there are no roots showing at all.

[Nicos]

I take it these plants are bin fodder then ? Btw, I have them planted in different composts, Levingtons, Lidl and a couple of others I can't remember the names.

If those were mine I would bin the smaller ones but hold onto the healthier looking ones.Give them a bit longer, you may still have the hot weather they need .
It’s good to see you trying out different composts too. I think you collected mole hills previously?…keep on with that, you can’t have too many to add to your compost

[smallblueplanet]

You seem to want to ignore the obvious. You won't be happy with this answer, but perhaps the grower is at fault.

You are in many of your threads trying to grow seedlings/plants in conditions that the plants do not like and are not happy with. You look for a myriad of excuses, but the most obvious is the way you are trying to grow them. Grow 'with' the plants you are sowing, provide conditions that want to grow in, consider what the environment and climate is where they grow 'naturally'. Grow fewer until you can get the ones you do sow to fruit and then experiment in the next sowings.

[Marb67]

These chillies are in decent size pots (and I have seen very healthy ones in nursery's growing in pretty much the same) in a sunny spot in the garden are not flowering, despite being fed with liquid comrey and yet not a single flower on all of them. This doesn't make sense.

[Nicos]

When did you sow them? They look about ready to flower.

[Marb67]

When did you sow them? They look about ready to flower.

Probably Feb I think. I thought as we are nearly into August it was getting late in the season.

[Nicos]

Keep positive - maybe stop the flowers after the first few to give them chance to grow.

[annie8]

My chillis haven’t flowered yet, just at the bud stage. They are always later for me, even if I start them early, but they also keep going later and last year I had good success in getting them to ripen by bringing a few plants indoors in the autumn.