The Chili and Pepper winter sowing thread.

[HotStuff]

has 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.

I've tried it and noticed no apreciable difference to using tomato feed.

[annacruachan]

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!

Yes, Chris, it's a yellow cherry - that's what the German name means - and it is hot! I made a sort of chilli marmalade using yellow tomatoes, Gelbe Kirschen and yellow squash last year - I call it Yellow Peril since every so often you get a piece of unadulterated chilli in your mouth and it's a bit of a surprise!

[mcsee]

Although it doesn't get as cold here during our Winter as it does there, my seedlings still manage to get to a salable size in the 6-8 weeks I allow between sowing and selling. I usually like to sow a mix of hot and sweet, usually around 300-400 seedlings each year.

[Nordmead]

sown today:

10x Chocolate Bhut Jolokias (because i was unsure how many would germinate and heard they didnt yield alot)
6x Trinidad Scorpions
6x Fatali

i can always thin out if i find out ive over done it

sown a few days ago:

lots x California Wonder

[chris]

I started mine off early last year and they were very prolific ......even tho' they looked remarkably like purple bananas

Thanks, mine didn't mature in time, as with jacbos!

Last year was my (our I should say, as OH does her bit) most successful to date with aubergines. I sowed the Moneymakers in early Jan and the plants produced a dozen on so aubergines each, not huge, 4-7 inches.

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.

Thanks for the pointers, I'll try aubs in pots this year, have a few large ish pots that I had 4 cayennes in per pot last year.

Yes, Chris, it's a yellow cherry - that's what the German name means - and it is hot! I made a sort of chilli marmalade using yellow tomatoes, Gelbe Kirschen and yellow squash last year - I call it Yellow Peril since every so often you get a piece of unadulterated chilli in your mouth and it's a bit of a surprise!

Ah, cool sounds nice Few of the guys here say they like chillies, going to sow some choc habs and bhut jolokia

[grenhouse]

My chillis aren't up yet but have just done a seed swap with someone on another forum and they have sent me:

Suttons chilli pepper hot stuff
Prairie Fire
Scotch bonnett
Chocolate Habs
Cayenne
Whit Habs
Bishops crown
chilli long type
yellow pointed habs
peach habs

Wow, i'm so chuffed, I feel really guilty as I only swapped them a couple of packs of seeds!

I have a little space in the prop!

Steve

[Mrs Dobby]

First sowing has some up now, Ive got the following up and growing now....

1 x Dorset Naga
1 x Scotch Bonnet
2 x Chocolate Habanero
6 x Naga Jolokia
6 x Mohawk
6 x Decayenne
6 x Cayenne
6 x Tokyo Hot
6 x Jalapeno

Plus a large amount of peppers and aubergines, and about 32 tomato seedlings! Looks like Im gonna be busy pricking them out of the propogators tomorrow!

[Jono]

Got my first seedling up today; the one I put in the work boiler room. Its lovely and warm in there, with just enough light. Been wondering what else I could get in there...

[Bren In Pots]

After 9 days my Jalapeno and Cayennes have started to pop their heads up

[Two_Sheds]

Lemon Drop, Cherry Bomb, Numex Twilight & some seeds from the parrot's mix went in the heated prop today

parrot's ones were the first to germinate (6 days)
next was a Numex (7 days)
then Lemon Drop (10 days)
lastly Cherry Bomb (11 days)

[bigt1888]

sweet peppers and hungarian hot wax chillies(courtesy of northepaul) just breaking the surface, sowed 7 days ago.

[Anna Stox]

planted 6 x pretty in purple, 6 x purple venezuelan hot pepper and 6 x lemon drop on sat 15th in heated propagator.
This morning i have 2 lemon drops and 1 venezuelan up. Hurrah!
Now to decide what else to put in the propagator...

[Mrs Dobby]

5 1/2 seed trays filled with 2" pots of chilli and pepper seedlings here now, with another 17 seedlings to plant on from the heated propogators! The first Naga Jolokia looks to be about to sprout its first 2 true leaves too!

[Bren In Pots]

All my Jalapeno, Cayennes, and sweet peppers are up and out of the propagator so I'm just waiting for is the Scotch bonnet Orange habs. Looking at last years journal they 'should' be up in 2 days time.

[alexkid909]

Mixed results here, so far from the 20 i've sown over the two batches I've now got the following seedlings...

2 x Bell Pepper Orange
2 x Bell Pepper Misc
1 x Sweet Red Cherry
2 x Marconi
2 x Cayenne
2 x Red Cherry Toms
1 x Cerise Toms

So 12 out of 20, sure I had better germination rate last year. Will resow and maybe use some vermiculite this time. Also off to get me another heated prop this week so I can get another batch up and running.