update on chillis growing under artificial light

[winnie2457]

hi all chilli plants are under strip light now been there for 3weeks on my windowsill with heating on. jalepeno plants are massive grown 6 inches in 3 weeks and about 20flowers on there now 5 of which are fully open so hpefuly get some chilis in a few weeks

how long do the chilis take to grow from the flowers roughly

thanks guys my light set up cost 9quid from wicks for a 4ft striplight including bulb

[nomis]

How much is the electricity on those bulbs for say a week?

[winnie2457]

its a 26watt single strip tube light and its on from 6am untill 11am then 3pm till 10pm so thats 11hours a day

not very much considering a tv and sky box is prob more watts and thats on alot of the time as my wife does not work lol

[Crundy]

I'm surprised it produces enough light to supply a plant. I always thought it would have to be at least 200w (energy saver) like these

[winnie2457]

The lift is suspended about 15cm above the plants so there is loads of light and the plants are lush green in colour and have loads of flowers on at the moment hopefully chillis will e on in the next few weeks hopefully

[winnie2457]

Hi all again my flowers are out and I have been self pollenating the flowers how ever two or three flowers have fell off but with the whole stem too

The question is why I thought the flower falls off and chillis then grow if some one can correct
Me

Or do I turn the light off and cut back and over winter the chilli plants all 8 of the plants Which are

3 jalepeno
2 piri piri
1 Dorset naga
2 black pearl

The jalepeno have grown like wild fire with loads of flowers but no chillis yet

The black pearl has about 10 buds on

And the. Dorse and piri piri are still small with no buds yet

[Nordmead]

piri piri take quite a while to grow (120 days ive heard)

flower drop could either be day temp too high, night temp too low, lack of pollination, over watering etc..

im pretty sure you can over winter without having to cut it back although if im wrong im sure someone will correct me

[Crundy]

Are the flowers falling off before or after they open?

[winnie2457]

After they open but I do think I am over watering a bit might have to cut down on th water

There has been 5 flowers and stems fallen off with the flowers fully open

[Two_Sheds]

chilli plants are ... on my windowsill with heating on. ...The lift (light?) is suspended about 15cm above the plants

Are they getting too hot? That flouro light is pretty close to them, and you've got the heating on too ...?

[Crundy]

They tend to fall off before they open if they're being overwatered. The two main culprits for them falling off after they open is not being pollonated, and being too hot. I note you're growing a naga. They are notoriously hard to get to fruit, as they produce very little pollen. I had one last summer and painstakingly went round the flowers with a paintbrush every day and got precisely zero fruits. They really do have to be outdoors, because no matter how handy you are with a brush, insects are far better at it than you.