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Hi, I grew chillies last year for the majority of my garden/house growing space and watered them all from the top down.
I water chillies very quickly, and "drench" the top of the pot to around a 2cm depth of water and allow that to soak through the soil to the saucer beneath. If there is any water drained out into the saucer an hour or so later I pour it out, as the chillies dislike being overly wet. Once the pot gets light and feels like it contains dry compost (at the moment around 5 days with the cloudy weather - this will be as often as perhaps twice a day in Really hot weather and strong sun) I do the same again. The plant leaves will wilt dramatically if they get too dry, so they do tell you when they Have to have water and suffer very little (at least I never lost any) from the scary looking wilting.
The pots I use are mostly 8-10 inches, though the chilli plants that I put in the ten inch ones got very large (five foot or so even with pinching out) and thus water hungry, hence the twice a day waters in very hot weather.
Most of the varieties I grew did around three to five crops of 20-30 chillies, so the extra watering effort for the larger plants really did pay off.
I also did a tomato feed, just the same as the watering, once a week once they started to flower.
What types are you growing?
I water chillies very quickly, and "drench" the top of the pot to around a 2cm depth of water and allow that to soak through the soil to the saucer beneath. If there is any water drained out into the saucer an hour or so later I pour it out, as the chillies dislike being overly wet. Once the pot gets light and feels like it contains dry compost (at the moment around 5 days with the cloudy weather - this will be as often as perhaps twice a day in Really hot weather and strong sun) I do the same again. The plant leaves will wilt dramatically if they get too dry, so they do tell you when they Have to have water and suffer very little (at least I never lost any) from the scary looking wilting.
The pots I use are mostly 8-10 inches, though the chilli plants that I put in the ten inch ones got very large (five foot or so even with pinching out) and thus water hungry, hence the twice a day waters in very hot weather.
Most of the varieties I grew did around three to five crops of 20-30 chillies, so the extra watering effort for the larger plants really did pay off.
I also did a tomato feed, just the same as the watering, once a week once they started to flower.What types are you growing?
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