First chillis are up

[Bacchus]

A couple of flower heads appearing on my overwintered "ring of fire" I overwintered it by..... completely ignoring it. I remembered to water it about 3 times when I gave it a light drink. I'm going to hit it with the chilli focus fertilizer and see what happens.

[the big lebowski]

looking good mate ,cheers for the pics

[Bacchus]

An update on the chillies

[Bacchus]

And that's not the half of them.

[FlawlessVictory]

These have popped up for me -

Orange Jalapeno
Super Chilli F2
Cheyenne F2
Cayenne x 2
Mystery Chilli from Norfolk Chilli Farm
Apache F1 x 2
Numex Twilight x 2
Purple Cayenne x 2
Bhut Jolokia x 2
Variegata
Basket of Fire f1
Orange Jalapeno

I'm waiting for these to come up :-

Norfolk Chilli Farm Mystery Chilli x 3
Golden Cayenne
Padron x 4
Fatalli
Banana Pepper
Hungarian Hot Wax x 3
Serrano Purple
Purple Cayenne
Sante Fe Grande x 2
Apache F1
Hot Portugal

I can't help but keep sowing the damn things!

[Bacchus]

I have planted many varieties of chilli's in jiffy 7 pots and some in modular trays and a small number in a flat tray.

1. Flat tray -damping off hit so I binned the lot, no big deal just standard Jalapenos of which I have plenty
2. modular tray - about a 50% germination rate so far - some more are likely to burst through
3. Jiffy 7's - everything germinated except 2 - arguably the most interesting two, a 7 pot and a Bhut jolokia - though that may have been my fault for letting them get a bit dry.

[Scarlet]

I better dust my propagator off.....

[Philthy]

Sowed mine yesterday:

- Santa Fe Grande
- Habanero Red
- Habanero Long Chocolate
- Chinese Black
- Espelette
- Orange Thai
- Alma Paprika (sweeter and mild)

- Medusa
(chillies have zero heat, apparently - curious to see how they compare to a sweet pepper).

It's a few down on last year, but I've got a number of plants still from previous seasons.

Have also decided to have another go at a sweet pepper - Gypsy F1 - as endorsed by Ian_5 on a different thread for being quite prolific. Ordered seeds from T&M which arrived a few days ago, and sure enough the blurb on the packet includes the line "amazing cropping potential."
So worth a go.

(In the past I've found the return from sweet pepper plants to be so low as to be not worth the bother).

[Martin H]

I sowed some Jalapenos today. Also some sweet peppers, not tried those before. They are all in the heated prop in the greenhouse.

[chilli_grower]

Seems like there will be some serious competition for the Virtual show this year!!!!!

[Gren]

Got about a dozen inch high seedlings so far with 4 more on their way. First came up after 10 days in the propagator :

Scotch Bonnets (always guaranteed germination and harvest)
Orange habaneros
Bhut Jolokias
Trinidad Scorpion Butch T (germinating surprising well for a hot one)

[chilli_grower]

Sowed mine yesterday. Only a few varieties this year:

Fairy light (self saved from my 3 year old plant)

Jalapeno

Paper Lantern

Ring of fire

I have seed left over, so will soon be in the VSP!!!!

[the big lebowski]

you have read my mind kristen, i have found a reflector on ebay and will be ordering it in the next month ,cheers

[Kristen]

I'm using a Blue 125w 6u CFL Hydroponics Eco Grow Light Lamp at the moment - pic attached. I've to sort out the best arrangement for them yet.

Can you get the bulb on its side, and within a couple of inches of the seedlings do you think? A reflector on top of some sort perhaps?

[Bacchus]

Yea, no problem. Please post your own pics on your successes..id love to see them. Best of luck with your plants..