The Chili and Pepper winter sowing thread.

[Nordmead]

sweet chocolates went in last night, also thought i should upload some seedling pics

hot lemon


mustard hab #1


mustard hab #2

[Caro]

They look great, Nordmead.

Not content with the 8 varieties already sown (), today (in my nice shiny new no. 2 heated propagator) I sowed 3 each of:

• Super chilli
• Bhut jolokia
• Santa fe grande
• Pasilla Bajio
• Ring of Fire (thanks, Coreopsis!)
• Golden cayenne
• Anaheim
• Chocolate habs
• Lemon drop
• and some chillies a friend's Thai mum grows in Northern Thailand

Also, some sweet peppers:

• Citrina
• Mini bell mixed
• Californian Wonder
• and Jumbo sweet F1

AND, invested in a daylight bulb and tall, angle-able desk lamp

Loving it

[Jono]

Nice one Nordmead!

I'm a week in, no signs yet. Are people watering their sowings before the seedlings come up?

[danmon_81]

you need to keep the soil resonably moist.

[grenhouse]

Sowed some early chillis yesterday, normally do them in march but have a heated prop now!

Did:

6 pretty in purple
3 Pequin
3 hot banana
3 'hot' patio mix
3 cherry bomb

fingers crossed!

[chris]

It's taken me ages to get sorted, but tonight I've just had a great time going through my seeds (wow, I have a load!), with a beer looking what I'll sow tonight. I only had 8 pots washed and ready, so I've just sown:

2 x zazen's Gelbe Kirschen (is this a cherry chilli?) I just remember zaz saying that the 2nd one she tried was 'HOT'. Should make a nice chutney anyway!
4 x Anaheim
4 x Medusa
2 x Pasilla Bajio

Planning on (if they all germinate) giving a couple medua and anaheim away to a couple of friends in work. The two remaining pots I chucked some tomatoes in - over to that thread now!

[HotStuff]

Bu@@er! I knocked over one of the heated props this evening, so now if any of them germinate I'll have some mystery Chillies

Ah well, I suppose it all adds to the excitement

[jacob]

Chilis:
Apache Cayenne (Suttons, for reliable large crop)
Nigel's Outdoor: germinated 16/1
Pretty in Purple
Hungarian Black (from saved seed, so who knows what it'll be): germinated 13/1, crickey, these were impossible last year from bought seed
Habanero orange: germinated 13/1
Habanero chocolate
Habanero yellow
Caribbean red: germinated 16/1
Scotch Bonnet yellow
Scotch Bonnet red
Tepin (last seven in a big collection)

Peppers:
Yankee bell
Lipstick

Aubergines (crashing the early thread):
Moneymaker: germinated 13/1
Early Long: germinated 16/1
di Firenze
Ukranian: germinated 9/1

So far, so good.

[chris]

Have you had much look with the Aubs, Jacob? As in started early off before with sucessful fruiting?

[adamhartree]

has anyone used the chilli focus nutrients before and if so is any good or worth trying?, i seen it today in my local growell but wanted to find out what it was like first.

[Caro]

has anyone used the chilli focus nutrients before and if so is any good or worth trying?, i seen it today in my local growell but wanted to find out what it was like first.

Nope, haven't tried it. But everyone I know seems to use tomato feed ...

[binley100]

Have you had much look with the Aubs, Jacob? As in started early off before with sucessful fruiting?

I started mine off early last year and they were very prolific ......even tho' they looked remarkably like purple bananas

[jacob]

Have you had much look with the Aubs, Jacob? As in started early off before with sucessful fruiting?

Last year was my (our I should say, as OH does her bit) most successful to date with aubergines. I sowed the Moneymakers in early Jan and the plants produced a dozen on so aubergines each, not huge, 4-7 inches.

Some other observations:
- second sowing in March didn't really work, the plants weren't mature until early Sept which is too late up here.
- aubergines were in the greenhouse, the couple I put outside didn't grow leaves, nevermind aubergines
- as with chilis, the mid-March to early-May period where you've got to take them out to the greenhouse in the morning and bring them back in evening is a pain in the @rse.
- I wonder if I would have got a better crop if I'd picked more aggressively, like corgettes.
- it's all organic up in my garden, feed coming from wood ash, worm juice and a dubious organic tomato feed; you'd probably get a better crop with chemicals, but...
- we had a lot of sunshine May/June/July, which must have helped, August was horrid, which probably didn't, especially as a big ole tree blocks the sun from about 14:30.
- oh yes, and they were in big, big pots.

[vicky]

Sown a few here today - Chilli Cayenne, Bolivian Rainbow, Hungarian Hot Wax and Peppers Sheepnose, calif Wonder and Tasty Grill

[CaroltheCarrot]

Woohoo, they are popping their little heads through