Chicken manure for my chilli's?

[Naga]

I heard that if plant food has to much Nitrogen then plants (at least chilli) will not grow any fruits. The pelleted chicken manure I have has a Nitrogen content of 3.5% and I was wondering if this was to high?

I am also trying to figure out how much to give my peppers. If tomato's I need to give them 25g then I guess I should half that?

[SarzWix]

Chicken poo is considered a high nitrogen feed, which promotes leafy growth. If you want to stimulate fruiting, you should feed with something labelled as a tomato feed which is higher in potassium/potash

[Naga]

Ok thanks, what about if I made a liquid feed? Wold that dilute the Nitrogen? I wonder if I have wasted my money, the guy in the store told me it would be good my peppers?

[SarzWix]

Even if you diluted it, the proportion of Nitrogen would still be higher than the potassium (flowers & fruit) & phosphorous (root development). When the peppers & chilli plants are still growing, the nitrogen will help them to grow 'big & strong', but when they start flowering you would need to switch to tomato feed.

[Two_Sheds]

The pelleted chicken manure I have has a Nitrogen content of 3.5%

It's not about the percentage, but about the NPK balance. Nitrogen (N) Phosphorus (P) and Potassium/potash (K)

N = leaves
P = roots
K = fruits

this might explain better than I can: NPK Basic Fertiliser Components - Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium or Potash

[Two_Sheds]

the guy in the store told me it would be good my peppers?

Course he did, he needs to pay his mortgage this month
Use your chicken pellets for something else ... something leafy.

[SlugLobber]

So, chicken manure is good for brassicas? Or leeks?

Every day's a school day on here!

[Flummery]

Use a reasonable compost initially and when they start to flower and set fruits, I always use tomato fertiliser, as desrcibed on the bottle for toms.

I use pelleted chicken manure on brassicas, spuds, anything but carrots and parsnips as I don't want them forking (even more!)
The moral is, don't always believe the salesman!