First chillis are up

[Philthy]

Sowed mine yesterday:

- Santa Fe Grande
- Habanero Red
- Habanero Long Chocolate
- Chinese Black
- Espelette
- Orange Thai
- Alma Paprika (sweeter and mild)

- Medusa
(chillies have zero heat, apparently - curious to see how they compare to a sweet pepper).

It's a few down on last year, but I've got a number of plants still from previous seasons.

Have also decided to have another go at a sweet pepper - Gypsy F1 - as endorsed by Ian_5 on a different thread for being quite prolific. Ordered seeds from T&M which arrived a few days ago, and sure enough the blurb on the packet includes the line "amazing cropping potential."
So worth a go.

(In the past I've found the return from sweet pepper plants to be so low as to be not worth the bother).

[Scarlet]

I better dust my propagator off.....

[Bacchus]

I have planted many varieties of chilli's in jiffy 7 pots and some in modular trays and a small number in a flat tray.

1. Flat tray -damping off hit so I binned the lot, no big deal just standard Jalapenos of which I have plenty
2. modular tray - about a 50% germination rate so far - some more are likely to burst through
3. Jiffy 7's - everything germinated except 2 - arguably the most interesting two, a 7 pot and a Bhut jolokia - though that may have been my fault for letting them get a bit dry.

[FlawlessVictory]

These have popped up for me -

Orange Jalapeno
Super Chilli F2
Cheyenne F2
Cayenne x 2
Mystery Chilli from Norfolk Chilli Farm
Apache F1 x 2
Numex Twilight x 2
Purple Cayenne x 2
Bhut Jolokia x 2
Variegata
Basket of Fire f1
Orange Jalapeno

I'm waiting for these to come up :-

Norfolk Chilli Farm Mystery Chilli x 3
Golden Cayenne
Padron x 4
Fatalli
Banana Pepper
Hungarian Hot Wax x 3
Serrano Purple
Purple Cayenne
Sante Fe Grande x 2
Apache F1
Hot Portugal

I can't help but keep sowing the damn things!

[Bacchus]

And that's not the half of them.

[Bacchus]

An update on the chillies

[the big lebowski]

looking good mate ,cheers for the pics

[Bacchus]

A couple of flower heads appearing on my overwintered "ring of fire" I overwintered it by..... completely ignoring it. I remembered to water it about 3 times when I gave it a light drink. I'm going to hit it with the chilli focus fertilizer and see what happens.

[the big lebowski]

looking good there,where do you overwinter your chillis ? do you just leave them on a window sill ? cheers

[Bacchus]

It sat by the patio doors in my office (south facing) - so generally warm and bright - but there is a bit of a draught that can whistle in between the doors sometimes though it seems not to have bothered it too much.

I recently moved it into the utility room as that patio door space how has the T5 lights for the seedlings. A bit darker there but still on a window. It's only in the last week I noticed a few flowers starting to form.

I really did absolutely nothing to it - not even trimmed it. I meant to but never got round to it - I think I'll just leave it now.

[Bacchus]

Aphids

Fairy liqiud spray, locked and loaded....

[fishpond]

Aphids

Fairy liqiud spray, locked and loaded....

Does fl zap em or just clean em up (serious)?

[Bacchus]

Aphids breath through their skin so the solution clogs up their pores and they suffocate.

[bussinspain]

I sowed seeds of Spanish Naga, Scotch Bonnet and (can't remember the other one) about 3 weeks ago. 1 Scotch Bonnet popped up 2 days ago.

[Bacchus]

Just an update on how things are growing

Tray 1 - under the T5's



Tray 2 - under the T5's


Tray 3 - under the T5's


Tray 4 - under a different CFL grow lamp



I have now run out of room though there are a couple of tomatoes mixed in there which can just go on a windowsill soon