Chillies - growing and overwintering 2023

[stigs]

I could have used my greenhouse for chillies for the last 4 days, it's very mild

[ameno]

Put my pepper seeds to sprout on damp kitchen roll today.
12 different varieties (a mix of sweet peppers and mild chillies), although I can't remember half of them off the top of my head.

[Babru]

You'll still be able to keep them indoors if you have the space. It's just they're likely to get big enough that they'll need potting into larger pots before it's warm enough to plant them out.

Well, they germinated fine in the heated prop and are now under the growlight. However my house is rather chilly this winter and they're standing still - may not be too early after all. A somewhat odd silver lining to the increase in the cost of gas......

[peanut]

I've sown Lunchbox Peppers, Spangle, Lemon Dream and Trinidad Perfume Chilli Peppers.

[ameno]

Some of my pepper seeds started sprouting a few days ago, so I potted them up, and now the first few are emerging from the compost.

Some varieties I haven't had a single one sprout on damp tissue yet, though, so I've increased the numbers. It's mostly half-packets from last year, but pepper seeds ought to last that long. Probably has something to do with my seed drawer getting damp over the winter (the wooded drawer even had white mould growing on it, although none of the seeds were mouldy). I've moved all my seeds elsewhere now.

[Sweet savory]

I have Hungarian hot wax just emerging and tangerine dream on kitchen towel to sprout in the airing cupboard as it is older seed.

[ameno]

Most of the varieties which actually sprouted are now up, but the other varieties are not showing any signs of life, despite sowing all of my seeds of them.
Looks like buying new seeds will be necessary.

[annie8]

Hungarian Hot wax and scotch bonnet seeds starting to come through. More exciting though is that my overwintered plants are starting to show new shoots on the main stem.

[Nicos]

I’ve potted on my peppers from the kitchen roll .

[ameno]

My replacement seeds arrived today, so I put some to sprout on damp kitchen roll and put them somewhere warm.

[annie8]

Put the chilli plants from last year in new compost. A few wee leaves are stating to appear on the stems to hoping they will survive.

[ameno]

My replacement seeds have all sprouted, so I potted them up today.

[Zelenina]

I kept three plants of Numex Orange Spice alive on a windowsill over the winter. They've been looking rather straggly, but have had a sudden burst of blossoming, maybe due to feeding with some liquid fertiliser. Most of the flowers have fallen off, but I've been tapping the stems, and now the biggest plant has set 5 chillies and the other two have started a couple each. So I should have some ripe unusually early this year. They are an orange jalapeno type chilli, but said to be a bit hotter than a standard Jalapeno. I don't think I've ever eaten a standard Jalapeno to compare them with, but they are definitely hot.

[ameno]

Repotted most of my February sown peppers into 8cm pots, as they are now getting quite big. They're in my conservatory now.

[mrsbusy]

Hi. I have overwintered a Bhut Ghost Chili which didn't perform very well at all last year but it looks fine now - plenty of leaves and flowers. I pruned it back in February. Only problem is this is a very hot chili - I don't like chilies much!!