The Chili and Pepper winter sowing thread.

[danmon_81]

Depending on variety, my best ones end up in Morrisons black flower buckets, which I think are about 10in diameter.

I agree...if you have a co-op near by go and ask them....i got mine from there...ask them they usually crush them and throw them away!

[jacob]

I'm still trying to master by chilli growing abilities but it leaves me a bit confused.If I give it a pot that is too big the chilli will keep growing the foliage(no flowers),if the pot is smaller it sends a message to the plant "that's it" so it starts flowering.I find them very challenging to grow-last year was my 1st year with fruiting chillies.As I have next set of seeds already in the compost I'm thinking "what can I do to get them bigger and better".I'm not a fan of all fancy plant food found on the shop/gc shelves,what can I give them instead?

My tactic is to keep them in fairly small pots until they start to flower, then pot them into something a bit bigger. For the more straightforward varieties I certainly get my best yields from the biggest final pots.

[coreopsis]

Thanks for your answers

[Jono]

Went to the garden centre today - not much choice chilli wise, so I plumped for some Razzamatazz as I liked the colours. Apparently they're pretty hot too.

Planning to sow tomorrow and join you guys.

This was in the Telegraph today, by the way, might be of some interest:

How to grow chillies anywhere in Britain - Telegraph

[kittyvonsometime]

I am bursting to start planting and bought some compost today, I am the most nervous with the light as I live in Iceland and there isn't much of it right now, but each day I am noticing more and this thread has driven me to insanity so tomorrow I begin with just a few seeds from each type on my huge windowsills.

[tiachica]

My first chilli broken through. Who knows what it is, but pretty!

[Sonata]

I sowed a few today with my daughter. They're hopefully happily sitting in their unheated propagator in the airing cupboard.

Bird's Eye
Cayenne
Hot Tepin
Scotch Bonnet
Anaheim
Sweet Pepper (from a pepper from Waitrose )

Some of those I'm growing as gifts for people...

[Mrs Dobby]

1st batch of early chillies are now planted and safetly into the propogators on the bedroom windowsills!

2 dorset naga,
3 hungarian black,
2 choc habanero,
2 scotch bonnet,
4 orzoco,
8 hot jalapeno,
8 tokyo hot,
8 decayenne,
8 cayenne
8 hot stuff
8 Naga Jolokia

1st batch of toms, peppers and aubergines next!

[Mrs Dobby]

Just wondering, is sowing 123 assorted chilli and pepper seeds perhaps a bit overkill? Especially as Ive got another batch to do at the end of feb for those types that cant be planted yet, so will probably have about the same again of peppers and chillies to plant?

[jacob]

Sown on New Year's Day:

Chilis:
Apache Cayenne (Suttons, for reliable large crop)
Nigel's Outdoor
Pretty in Purple
Hungarian Black (from saved seed, so who knows what it'll be)
Habanero orange
Habanero chocolate
Habanero yellow
Caribbean red
Scotch Bonnet yellow
Scotch Bonnet red
Tepin (last seven in a big collection)

Peppers:
Yankee bell
Lipstick

Aubergines (crashing the early thread):
Moneymaker
Early Long
di Firenze
Ukranian: germinated 9/1

So the winner is the Ukranian diamond aubergine (gatecrashing the chili thread). So much for their "takes a long time to germinate" instructions.

[Caro]

None of mine have germinated yet. I've sown:

• Facing Heaven
• Gelbe Kirschen
• Peruvian Purple
• Orange habanero
• Prairie fire
• Cherry bomb
• Rocoto Orange and
• Apache

WHAT'S KEEPING THEM ???

They've been in 24 hours now!

Whoopee!

An apache seedling began to appear yesterday evening (7 days) and a peruvian purple this morning (7 1/2 days )

I've still got some to plant, so I think I may invest in a second heated propagator.

[binley100]

No signs yet.........

[OllieMartin]

Thanks for this thread (yes I do still pop in for reminders! ), I'll have to get my chillies going.

This year I've got:
Naga Jolokia, after the mildness of my Chocolate Habs last year; I dare say these aren't going to be uber hot either.
Anaheim Flavour was great last year
Jalapeño and my colleague gave me a packet marked "Hot Chilli" so we'll just have to see what grows from them.

Also got some Anaheim, Chocolate Habanero and Hot lemon overwintering from last year so they'll hopefully spring back up.

I need to go out and get some sweet pepper seeds. After watching the price of peppers go up and up in Tesco's I think they'll be a good money saver.

[Jono]

Made three sowings of Razzamatazz yesterday, and put one in my airing cupboard, and took the other two to work. One is now on my window sill, and I snuck the other one in to the boiler room. Its pretty snug in there a lot of the time, so will be interested to see how that pans out.

Let the fun begin.

[Bren In Pots]

I've made my first sowing this afternoon 4 of each.

Scotch bonnet
Orange habs
Jalapeno
Cayenne
3 different sweet peppers