hows everyones chilli plants?

[littleplot]

These are my pepper plants. Started 10 days ago One pot is yolo, one is California and of the hots one is cayenne and one jalapeño Any help on the next step would be greatly appreciated


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[HavercroftHomegrowns]

Mine are still seedlings, about 12 jallies have come through, some bonnets and hot wax but still waiting on my bhut jolokia and hot cherries.

[horticultural_hobbit]

Superhots are still quite small. Early jalepeno, purple rainbow and Nigel have been under fleece in the Wendy for some time and have been slightly nipped by the cold. Need to keep an eye on those and hope that they recover. Little bit of slug damage too sadly.


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[snakeshack]

Put my chillies and peppers outside in their final pots today as they are all about 50 cm tall and starting to flower,still covered with fleece mind overnight


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[Chiiliwilly]

hmmm, I was expecting to perhaps see small white dots on the leaves... (But not always the case)

Are the leaves very brittle? As opposed to nice and soft as they should be?

Every year I have very similar problems with my plants, and I am quite sure that over watering is the case. (I know you have probably heard that 100 times already).

The problem could be something called 'EDEMA'

Read this:

A topic on edema - Growing Hot Peppers - The Hot Pepper

At least this is always the problem with my plants!!!

Hope this helps..

Thanks chilligrower. I'm keeping an eye on the watering now and I am watering very less. Maybe because my soil is 60% peet it is holding to much water


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[darcyvuqua]

Thanks chilligrower. I'm keeping an eye on the watering now and I am watering very less. Maybe because my soil is 60% peet it is holding to much water


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For this reason alone I always add perlite to aid drainage maybe something to look into

[Chiiliwilly]

For this reason alone I always add perlite to aid drainage maybe something to look into

I've been looking into it, I think when I repot I will get/add some there. Thanks


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[horticultural_hobbit]

Some Dorset nagas


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My slow growing Superhots


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[cariann88]

This is my jalapeño plant.

[The Nichols']

Very small. They hardly seem to have grown since they were moved out of pots into the polytunnel. The toms have done fine and are growing. It's just the peppers.

[littleplot]

Very small. They hardly seem to have grown since they were moved out of pots into the polytunnel. The toms have done fine and are growing. It's just the peppers.

Same story with mine . Just seem to have slowed to a standstill


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[Deano's "Diggin It"]

Same here this year although very healthy! really slow to get a bit of a "Steam On"

[horticultural_hobbit]

Id recommend dosing with some tomato feed. At least then, you'd get some foliage will help them get stronger. In hindsight that is what I did when I first started growing. Didn't know at that point you feed only when flowering. I do it now, to get the chillies growing leafier and steadier. I'm probably going to go mad looking at the slow growing super hots.

Planted out Nigel into the poly. He's not very big, but has a flower. Still have hot patio sizzle and hot Thai to plant; but they need a bit of TLC after they got nibbled on by slimers in the poly. Currently sat in a transparent box covered with fleece.


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[Philthy]

Very small. They hardly seem to have grown since they were moved out of pots into the polytunnel. The toms have done fine and are growing. It's just the peppers.

It's the night time temperature that'll have slowed or perhaps even halted their development. Particularly with peppers in their first season, you need at least 9 or 10 celcius at night for steady, healthy growth.

It's easy to be lulled into a false sense of security by soaring day time temperatures, particularly if they're above average for the time of year. But it's not worth chancing it unless conditions are favourable across the board. If your plants have been set back, by the time they get going again you'll discover summer is underway, and then your undersized plants will have extremes of heat to contend with too.

It's not even mid-May. I'm in no rush to get my young plants outside. I only finished moving my 2 and 3 year old overwintered chilli plants out to the unheated greenhouse, this weekend just gone, and naturally they are considerably hardier than a young plant.