Chillies - growing and overwintering 2018

[Scarlet]

Looking good there Ms. T!

[Small pumpkin]

Pretty flowers






Really pleased with my chillies so far this year. Lots of fruit coming already. Spotted one starting to colour up today.e

[Small pumpkin]

Quick question!
Chilli cross pollinating, it is a free for all isn't it?
It's not Chinese can only cross with Chinese and annum only with annum.

[Chris11]

Chilli cross pollinating, it is a free for all isn't it?
It's not Chinese can only cross with Chinese and annum only with annum.

C. chinense and C. annuums are more closely related, so cross-pollination is possible, but certainly not inevitable. Self-pollination is always the most likely result, even when plants are grown closely together.

C. baccatums are less closely related, less likely to cross with annuums/chinense, and less likely to have viable seed if cross pollination has occured.

C. pubescens are more distantly related, and in terms of biology/genetics do not cross with any of the other types, only other pubescens, so they are what is called 'reproductively isolated' from the others.

So not exactly a 'free for all'

[Scarlet]

Here’s a chart that explains it a little easier -



I find crossing is pretty prolific in the greenhouse especially if it’s full of both peppers and chillies.

So your scotch bonnet being a chinense will cross prolifically with Chinense, and annums and sporadically with baccatums ....now what did you have growing near it?

[Mitzi]

Mitzi, what size pot did your omnicolour live in ?, will an 8/10 l be ok or could we go smaller ?

Sorry, only just seen this (not been online over the weekend). I had three plants, the smallest container was a pop bottle so about 1 litre (but with a reservoir and wick so it didn't dry out quickly.) The plant did OK in it and fruited really well. The ones in bigger pots grew bigger but took longer to crop because they concentrated on growing first.

[Small pumpkin]

Thanks Chris & Scarlet
Just trying to work out who scotch bonnets daddy is

I've bookmarked that table

[Mitzi]

Yesterday I potted up six plants into their final pots outdoors. Hope we don't get a late cold snap. I'd been moving them in and out for a while then they've been outside permanently for a week or more. Tried the Purple Peach (CGN 21500?) outside a couple of days (brought in at night) but it was extremely unhappy, has dropped loads of leaves and now looks really sick. Needless to say it's back in the spare bedroom, but it's really too big for the windowsill, so I don't know what to do with it.

Most of my annuums never got potted up from their Jiffy 7s so they are not likely to amount to anything this year. I just never got the time to pot them on. Must grow fewer varieties next year so I can do them all justice.

[Chris11]

The plants are in the same order as last month, so we can see which plants have taken off and any that I expect to be smaller.

Since moving to the tunnel, some have also got yellow on the leaves

There was a cabbage white doing the rounds, but didn't expect them to do anything...

Perhaps pollen from bees / insects? any ideas?

Can't be sure from pictures, but those yellow spots do look like cabbage white eggs. Are they small, yellow and waxy looking, maybe a small clump of 8-10 eggs?

[Small pumpkin]

Finally the chilli tunnel is tidy. Still got 3 to put into final pots. Waiting for perlite delivery.

[the big lebowski]

wow sp what a great set up ,what size is your pollytunnel ? and pls keep posting your pics rather inspiring ,cheers

[Small pumpkin]

wow sp what a great set up ,what size is your pollytunnel ? and pls keep posting your pics rather inspiring ,cheers

Thanks
The tunnel is 25ft x 14ft

[IainM]

^^^ totally agree with TBL, I'm amazed you can grow plants like that before June in Mull!

My attempt isn't so advanced, but I went away over the bank holiday weekend and when I checked yesterday, I found some pods. Only Apache, Padron and Cherry Bomb, but now all the annums and some of the baccatums have buds/flowers too. I've also got a fair few tomatos fruit coming, loads of strawberries waiting to turn red, a few tomatillos on their way too and my first courgette is almost ready to pick.

[4Shoes]

Can't be sure from pictures, but those yellow spots do look like cabbage white eggs. Are they small, yellow and waxy looking, maybe a small clump of 8-10 eggs?

Yes, very much like eggs. I'll remove them, but I didn't expect cabbage white to lay on peppers
The cabbage patch is still free

[monkeyboy]

Despite potting up into slight larger pots (from 4" into 6" pots), there's been no real growth in my Jalapenos - they're stuck at 6" in height. Padron Peppers are slightly taller at 9" in height.

Watering 2-3 times a week. Fed every other week.

Thoughts?