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I work for a Famous Large Heritage Organisation (:-D) and the gift shop at my place was chucking out some unsold Christmas gift sets - the sort where you get three crummy little pots, a bag of rubbish compost and three tiny packets of seed, in this case Cayenne, Jalapeno and Habanero. I grew a handful of each and brought them indoors for the winter from the greenhouse so they can sulk (and in one case die) in the window of our loft conversion.
Having completely forgotten they were there, I've just been up and picked the semi-dried fruits off 'em...
The other thing I'd forgotten was that, when I'd brought them in from the GH, I'd intended to re-label them as woodlice had eaten the labels, but I never did. So I have, effectively, just presented the OH with a Russian Roulette of chilli.
And guess what's on the cooker tonight? :-o
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Greetings chilli heads, belated Happy New Year
I'm not growing anything, as I decided to have a year off, first since 2006.
Relentless greenfly and erratic weather these past two seasons, and the subsequent mediocre crop last year particularly, have taken a lot of the shine off the hobby. I didn't have pest problems to this degree five years ago so not entirely sure what has changed, just got theories at this point. Tried numerous fixes, though each seems to incur other problems so no one solution just yet. Either way, not going to dwell on it.
No plants overwintered - washed my hands of them (literally) and left them to their fate in the GH in the autumn.
Quite refreshing actually. I shall instead focus my energies on the numerous DIY projects that until now were always sidelined as soon as the days started lengthening...
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Originally posted by FromYorkshiretoBucks View Post
Got a grow light arriving this weekend and going to look at repotting everything into singular pots soon. Do people usually wait for 2nd set of leaves first?
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Scarlet - luckily I have my greenhouse here and 4 cold frame / greenhouse hybrids I’m currently building and my dads greenhouse space.
An update from my side, I currently have 72 healthy looking SB seedlings germinated (20 maybe ended spindly (think fishing wire) and died off in the terminator - the rest never germinated)
8 choc habanero germinated and 6 Lemon drop.
Got a grow light arriving this weekend and going to look at repotting everything into singular pots soon. Do people usually wait for 2nd set of leaves first?
In a way I’m kind of glad a lot of the SBs didn’t germinate. As I’m addicted to buying seeds (usually after wine) I’ve also ordered some Jalapeño and Red Habaneros to get started in a few weeks once everything else is reported.
I do have a feeling I will be walking the the streets of Buckinghamshire looking for people who are having old wooden windows removed at this rate to build more cold frames!Last edited by FromYorkshiretoBucks; 09-01-2020, 04:20 PM.
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Originally posted by Mitzi View PostI've pricked out six of them and am contemplating what to do with the other three.
I won’t be participating
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I love Nigel's Outdoor. jack army grows it. It's a heavy cropping plant with enough heat without ruining your chutney
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I'm hoping to grow Nigel's Outdoor this year (seeds from the seed circle a year or two back) and might try one in the ground plus one in a pot. Will be sowing it next month.
Of my seeds sown at the end of December only the IC2 have germinated. Nothing else. To be fair, that's the one I would have chosen if I'd have known only one would grow. Nine out of ten seeds sown have germinated. I've pricked out six of them and am contemplating what to do with the other three.
Need to sow the next batch; maybe the pubes.
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Originally posted by ameno View PostI have a heated propagator, and I do have one grow light, but it's currently being monopolized by my citrus plants.
Think I'd best wait until mid February.
The bonus would be if the summer isn't great the potted ones can be dug up to carry on indoors to crop a little later and you would maybe have the option to overwinter one or two.
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Originally posted by Mitzi View PostThey're not likely to be 2ft wide by April, though.
Potting on in excess of 100 plants is not a quick task.
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Originally posted by FromYorkshiretoBucks View PostRegarding growing on, I am going to send a fair few in to my parents who can probably fit 30 in my old bedroom window / kitchen window until April, the rest will have to grow on my own windowsill, luckily I have a pretty light gardening room which has a work top right next to the window with room for maybe 60 more mature plants. Other than that, I will be visiting the in-laws for space haha
LD
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Originally posted by mcdood View PostStarted my minor contribution to chilli growing this morning not quite the volume of most on here or the exotic sounding names
Sowed 2 Loco, 3 De Cayenne and 3 Serrano - aiming to grow on 1 plant of each hopefully.
I grew 2 Loco last year and loved it, got a bag of chillies in the freezer. I also grew Trinidad Perfume but wasn't a big fan. I don't know much about De Cayenne (presumably the same as Cayenne? just a bit more French ) and Serrano are they just generic varieties of chilli?
Serrano is a very popular variety from Mexico. A base for lots of sauce and dishes. Usually eaten green like jalapeño, but a lot hotter than a jalapeño.
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Started my minor contribution to chilli growing this morning not quite the volume of most on here or the exotic sounding names
Sowed 2 Loco, 3 De Cayenne and 3 Serrano - aiming to grow on 1 plant of each hopefully.
I grew 2 Loco last year and loved it, got a bag of chillies in the freezer. I also grew Trinidad Perfume but wasn't a big fan. I don't know much about De Cayenne (presumably the same as Cayenne? just a bit more French ) and Serrano are they just generic varieties of chilli?
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