chilli sowing ??

[The Large One]

top job
looks a real healthy plant

potting up allot of mine this weekend so hoping they crack along a bit as some are still quite small but the do spend their days in an UH GH

[DGoulston]

They look awesome!

Yep, I agree, they do look good. DGoulston - the grow section of your blog doesn't seem to work.

Fixed the link, oops.

Thanks guys, I have actually found the seed pack the Cayennes came from and they are not Apache's like I thought, They are Chenzo's which makes sense why they are black in colour for such a long time and hotter than a normal Cayenne.

I am glad to find that out, as now I know they are not F1's so I can save seed!

Darren

[DGoulston]

Pa Snips, your one looks great, Mine are about 25cm in total fully grown, but are smaller varieties I guess , My ones don't look as amazing as yours as the leaves are a little battered from a spider mite attack, but still producing lovely chilli's, and my Orange Harbanero's have got 2 little chilli's just starting to grow woop woop.

Darren

[Sarico]

Just a little update, in the last 11 days my biggest Cayenne has grown by 12cm and now stands at 23cm tall.

how do you grow them? i have a packet that i got iti from the magazine and i sown them at the beggining of march but they are only 14cm tall ( without pot of course lol)
you don't leave that fare away from me so where do you keep them?

[DGoulston]

how do you grow them? i have a packet that i got iti from the magazine and i sown them at the beggining of march but they are only 14cm tall ( without pot of course lol)
you don't leave that fare away from me so where do you keep them?

Where are you growing yours? they do like heat.
I have all the ones in my pic on the other page on the windowsill of my spare room that stays nice and warm. I also have some outside in the blow-away, and they are not even half the size of the ones that are in the warm and are no where near to flowering yet.. (pics on blog)

Darren

[Sarico]

Where are you growing yours? they do like heat.
I have all the ones in my pic on the other page on the windowsill of my spare room that stays nice and warm. I also have some outside in the blow-away, and they are not even half the size of the ones that are in the warm and are no where near to flowering yet.. (pics on blog)

Darren

i put them in the blowaway in the morning and night in the kitchen... my windowsill are full of seedling that are very small... so i will be patience then... lovely pics

[DGoulston]

i put them in the blowaway in the morning and night in the kitchen... my windowsill are full of seedling that are very small... so i will be patience then... lovely pics

This one was the only one I grew outdoors last year [seed planted around Mar/Apr](not in a blow-away as I only purchased that this year) and as you can see it is a lot shorter than the rest (about half the size)
It did produce a massive bumper crop of chilli's but they did not turn to red until I brought them indoors, and this year it is producing tons again, and ripening up quickly indoors.


We will see what the ones in the blow-away do, I leave them out there all the time, never bring them in, and they have been fine!

[Pa Snips]

Darren, thanks for your comment, as a newbie I don't know what they should look like so I'm glad you think it looks great, it's very reassuring.

Hi Sarico, mine live on my kitchen windowsill which is east south-east facing. I put two seeds in to each of two 3" pots, Cayennes in one and Jalapeños in the other. Placed the seeds on some lightly-firmed MPC and sprinkled a bit of sifted MPC over the seeds, then watered them and waited.
When they got a little bigger (see my previous post on this thread with two plants per pot) I split them into their own pots.
As of a few days ago I started giving them a drop of Baby-bio (because I happened to have some for a reason unbeknown to me) in their drinking water which, incidentally, I administer to them by way of a syringe into their respective drip-trays. Though as you can see in my latest pic, that particular one doesn't have a drip-tray, it has a sandwich bag instead.
Which reminds me, when I first put the seeds in I used those same sandwich bags as propagator lids over the pots. I think I took them off when the first true leaves came through.

[DGoulston]

I never bother with drip trays and all that, I just water directly onto the soil, once in the morning, and once when I get in from work.

I did use a heated prop to start the seeds.

Oh BTW, I have one of my overwintered Cayenne Chenzo chilli plants in the blow-away constantly, and that one is producing about one chilli ever 3 weeks at the moment, compared to one every 2-5 days for the ones in the spare room (south facing window)

and they get a bit of tomatorite when I am doing the rest of the plants.