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They look great, Nordmead.
Not content with the 8 varieties already sown (), today (in my nice shiny new no. 2 heated propagator) I sowed 3 each of:
- Super chilli
- Bhut jolokia
- Santa fe grande
- Pasilla Bajio
- Ring of Fire (thanks, Coreopsis!)
- Golden cayenne
- Anaheim
- Chocolate habs
- Lemon drop
- and some chillies a friend's Thai mum grows in Northern Thailand
Also, some sweet peppers:
- Citrina
- Mini bell mixed
- Californian Wonder
- and Jumbo sweet F1
AND, invested in a daylight bulb and tall, angle-able desk lamp
Loving itLast edited by Caro; 17-01-2011, 11:21 AM.Caro
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Nice one Nordmead!
I'm a week in, no signs yet. Are people watering their sowings before the seedlings come up?
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It's taken me ages to get sorted, but tonight I've just had a great time going through my seeds (wow, I have a load!), with a beer looking what I'll sow tonight. I only had 8 pots washed and ready, so I've just sown:
2 x zazen's Gelbe Kirschen (is this a cherry chilli?) I just remember zaz saying that the 2nd one she tried was 'HOT'. Should make a nice chutney anyway!
4 x Anaheim
4 x Medusa
2 x Pasilla Bajio
Planning on (if they all germinate) giving a couple medua and anaheim away to a couple of friends in work. The two remaining pots I chucked some tomatoes in - over to that thread now!
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Bu@@er! I knocked over one of the heated props this evening, so now if any of them germinate I'll have some mystery Chillies
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Originally posted by jacob View PostChilis:
Apache Cayenne (Suttons, for reliable large crop)
Nigel's Outdoor: germinated 16/1
Pretty in Purple
Hungarian Black (from saved seed, so who knows what it'll be): germinated 13/1, crickey, these were impossible last year from bought seed
Habanero orange: germinated 13/1
Habanero chocolate
Habanero yellow
Caribbean red: germinated 16/1
Scotch Bonnet yellow
Scotch Bonnet red
Tepin (last seven in a big collection)
Peppers:
Yankee bell
Lipstick
Aubergines (crashing the early thread):
Moneymaker: germinated 13/1
Early Long: germinated 16/1
di Firenze
Ukranian: germinated 9/1Garden Grower
Twitter: @JacobMHowe
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Originally posted by adamhartree View Posthas anyone used the chilli focus nutrients before and if so is any good or worth trying?, i seen it today in my local growell but wanted to find out what it was like first.Caro
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Originally posted by chrismarks View PostHave you had much look with the Aubs, Jacob? As in started early off before with sucessful fruiting?S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber
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Originally posted by chrismarks View PostHave you had much look with the Aubs, Jacob? As in started early off before with sucessful fruiting?
Some other observations:
- second sowing in March didn't really work, the plants weren't mature until early Sept which is too late up here.
- aubergines were in the greenhouse, the couple I put outside didn't grow leaves, nevermind aubergines
- as with chilis, the mid-March to early-May period where you've got to take them out to the greenhouse in the morning and bring them back in evening is a pain in the @rse.
- I wonder if I would have got a better crop if I'd picked more aggressively, like corgettes.
- it's all organic up in my garden, feed coming from wood ash, worm juice and a dubious organic tomato feed; you'd probably get a better crop with chemicals, but...
- we had a lot of sunshine May/June/July, which must have helped, August was horrid, which probably didn't, especially as a big ole tree blocks the sun from about 14:30.
- oh yes, and they were in big, big pots.Garden Grower
Twitter: @JacobMHowe
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