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  • #1

    Nothing is getting any bigger!!

    Hi peeps

    I am after a bit of advice.

    I have a Blowaway at the lottie, a walk in with the white PE cover
    Wilko Walk In Greenhouse with Staging & PE Cover | Mini Greenhouses | | Mini Greenhouse & Propagation from Wilkinson Plus

    Now... it has been fantastic for germinating but as for growing, nothing is getting any bigger. I have chilli, tomato and sweet pepper in there.

    4 Chilli plants went in there with flowers on and started producing chillis, however these chillis are now falling off and and new flowers it tried to produce a week ago have shriveled up and gone black and fallen off.

    My tomato plants germinated about a month ago (or more) they were re potted to 3" pots in John Innes potting on compost about 3 weeks ago and have not grown since. They are still about 3" tall.

    My Sweet peppers germinated about 2 weeks ago and they are still the same, 2 tiny leaves about 1cm long.

    Everything is well watered, it is nice and warm in there and looking green and lush, just no bigger?

    Can anyone help... Please?
    Little ol' me

    Has just bagged a Lottie!
    Oh and the chickens are taking over my garden!
    FIL and MIL - http://vegblogs.co.uk/chubbly/
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    I'm having the same problem, but mine I think is a combination of the weather not knowing what the hell it's doing, in one day it's windy, hammering down, sunny, cold, windy, wet etc, and this has been going on for well over a week, and compost, I've been using new horizon, fab germination, but then nothing is putting on much growth.

    I think it's just too cold. The chard has recently put as huge spurt on, and that doesn't like warm weather much.
    Last edited by taff; 12-06-2011, 11:15 AM.

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    • #3
      So has my chard Taff....

      Poxy weather!
      Little ol' me

      Has just bagged a Lottie!
      Oh and the chickens are taking over my garden!
      FIL and MIL - http://vegblogs.co.uk/chubbly/

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      • #4
        Commiseration from the frozen North I thought the Grapes much further south would be better off. My toms are okay but with one pepper left I think I'll be withdrawing from the pepper seed saving circle Won't mention my leeks either

        Taff, Beechgrove Gardens have been trialling New Horizon compost and have found the same problem as you - good germination then everything is at a stand still (the trial is still ongoing)

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        • #5
          It's very frustrating. Most of mine are kicking on nicely now but my chili plant's hardly moved for a fortnight and my cucumbers and courgettes are behind where i'd like them to be

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          • #6
            My tomatoes are doing fine, but the chillies are sulking

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            • #7
              The expert on New Horizon compost is 2 Sheds I am sure she will be able to allay your fears.

              The weather this year as been very up and down. First we had that wonderful hot spring, the plants must have thought it was high summer and it all kicked off at a vast rate of knots. Now we have weather that is more like a cool spring (there was ground frost forecast here last night) and the plants seem to have gone into hibernation waiting for summer. I am fairly sure that as the weather picks up so will the growth rate of your plants.

              Colin
              Potty by name Potty by nature.

              By appointment of VeggieChicken Member of the Nutters club.


              We hang petty thieves and appoint great ones to public office.

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              • #8
                Yup got to agree. Weather playing havoc. Everything is behind this year. My chillies indoors are doing ok but the toms and chillies in blowaway are way behind. No flowers as yet on them.
                Even bedding plants in front garden borders are puny.
                One very fed-up jock here. Or not fed, if you follow
                Clay soil is just the big yins way of letting you know nothing good comes easy.

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                • #9
                  I'm struggling much the same in the stayput. The chilli plants are stagnant and I've been complaining for weeks about no growth to the aubergines. My toms outside look really poor, even though I've been feeding them. Hope things buck up a bit soon.
                  Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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                  • #10
                    In the greenhouse same problem for me everything very slow and/or behind. Strangely stuff outside has been going great guns and seems really early/advanced (sweetcorn, courgettes, any kind of pea or bean is all harvesting nicely). I thought I slightly overwatered and that has slowed them down but not sure since everyone has the same problem!

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                    • #11
                      strangely, the chillis outside (Nigels Outdoors) are miles ahead of the ones in the GH. the outside one has lots of medium sized chillis, but the GH ones only have flowers

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                      • #12
                        Toms are doing ok... my chard too recently has grown huge! Like overnight. Beans on the lottie aren't growing as fast as they did last year. My pumpkins are growing quite fast mind.

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                        • #13
                          I am having the same problem, everything was doing alright... now it's all slowed right down.
                          The weather is extremely confused! It is kind of reassuring to know others are having similar problems, it's not something I'm doing wrong!!

                          On Friday evening we had a massive downpour and enough hail to leave a blanket over the ground. It shredded the leaves of some of my plants. A few days before that it had been 25 degrees or so!
                          Fingers crossed that better growing conditions are just around the corner...

                          Oooo my 100th post!
                          Last edited by bronwen; 13-06-2011, 09:46 AM. Reason: 100th post!

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                          • #14
                            I left a wheel barrow out - and in an hour and a half, it was full of water - couldn't believe it!

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                            • #15
                              having the same problems with toms/chillis/aubergines - not even a flower on the chillis and aubergines! But, couldn't believe it when I managed to get up to lottie at the weekend - my runners have nearly reachyed the top of their 7ft canes and are strating to flower! early beans for me then!

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