Chillies - what are you growing/overwintering?

[Scoot]

If you are just growing on windowsills it changes things. Use what's best for you for growing inside. The Jalapeno though will give you great returns if you can put it in something bigger. As SP has said, the bigger the pot the bigger the plant. The ring if fire and numex twillight are small plants do you can save your big pots for the others.

That's a great help. I'll keep the ring of fire and numex twilight in 5 litre pots and I'll push the boat out with the Jalapeno plant and put it in a 10 litre pot. I'll end up putting the lot of them in 10 litre pots I just know i will. I'll be in trouble.

[Small pumpkin]

As you can see scoot you're never going to get the same answer twice

Scarlet........ Gods darn it! Will you type slower

[Scoot]

As you can see scoot you're never going to get the same answer twice

Scarlet........ Gods darn it! Will you type slower

Yeah, I was kind of expecting that but that's not a problem, all answers and suggestions have been taken on board. I had a feeling I would be advised to use the 10 litre pots so i think my next move is planning where i can get ten 10 litre pots throughout the household without causing uproar. Wish me luck...

[Small pumpkin]

Your going to need more than luck on that one!
It was nice knowing you anyway

[Scarlet]

As you can see scoot you're never going to get the same answer twice

Scarlet........ Gods darn it! Will you type slower

None of the answers are wrong I grew ring of fire, they where little stocky plants and I think the Numex twilight grow to about 18inches? My tri colour variegata is about that height and it's in about 7L. It only has little chillies but it's done vey well.

#one finger typing rules

[Scarlet]

Scoot...you need bargaining power. Ladies love little unexpected gifts. A small bunch of flowers or a surprise bottle of perfume, or just taken out for dinner

[Small pumpkin]

Scoot...you need bargaining power. Ladies love little unexpected gifts. A small bunch of flowers or a surprise bottle of perfume, or just taken out for dinner

Also known as bribery or sucking up

But they really do work

[Scarlet]

Yeah! I dunno what my OH has done. He's hot 2 bikes in the livingroom and on the weekend he set his bike rollers in the spare bedroom.....

..ive got my kiln, saw, hammers downstairs and the plants on windowsills

[Small pumpkin]

None of the answers are wrong I grew ring of fire, they where little stocky plants and I think the Numex twilight grow to about 18inches? My tri colour variegata is about that height and it's in about 7L. It only has little chillies but it's done vey well.

#one finger typing rules

That's why our answers differ. Last time I grow ring of fire, it got about 3ft tall, and quick open growth ( if that makes sense). But then it was in a big fish box and it had to share the space with 2 other chilli's! Rookie mistake

[JusPotterinTim]

Do you keep them pruned in the summer too?

I haven't needed to yet. The Cherry Bomb was on the verge of taking over the mini greenhouse this sumer though, so if it got any bigger I would have pruned it.

[JusPotterinTim]

Nice selection scoot. I would say all of those would really like being in 10lt pots. But like I said before it all depends on available space. Hungarian hot wax will be a new one for me next year. All the others have a nice little kick to them, and produce well.

I think you might be impressed with the hungarian hot wax. They have a nice kick and are productive, well they were growing in my mini greenhouse. The heat is 2-3 times that of my Jalapeno (M type I think, which has a fair kick surprisingly), but the most surprising thing for me was the pods. They have a medium wall thickness, ripen quickly, and most of them are large and chunky, 15cm was a common length for me, and just under an inch thick mostly.

This is what I'm talking about:



The hot wax has a propensity to set flowers a bit too early, which hurts the overall yield as they can struggle to put out more pods once the first few are growing and sapping resources from the plant. It is a good idea to pinch off the flowers for a good 2-3 weeks until you have lots of foliage, then let them fruit. I know that pinching off flowers is advice given by some people for all chillies, but I don't always follow it personally, however it is definitely worth pinching buds for the hot wax.

[Scarlet]

I haven't needed to yet. The Cherry Bomb was on the verge of taking over the mini greenhouse this sumer though, so if it got any bigger I would have pruned it.

Just trying to get my head around this...so in the Summer you don't let them crop fully? They stay the size to fit the blowaway?
Chilli plants can (obviously depending on variety) grow to 6ft or more and carry hundreds of pods per year. You would fill your freezer in the Summer if you used your growlights to start off some seeds early.

[Small pumpkin]

I think you might be impressed with the hungarian hot wax. They have a nice kick and are productive, well they were growing in my mini greenhouse. The heat is 2-3 times that of my Jalapeno (M type I think), but the surprising thing for me was the pods. They have a medium wall thickness, ripen quickly, and most of them are large and chunky, 15cm was a common length for me, and just under an inch thick mostly.

The hot wax has a propensity to set flowers a bit too early, which hurts the overall yield as they can struggle to put out more pods once the first few are growing and sapping resources from the plant. It is a good idea to pinch off the flowers for a good 2-3 weeks until you have lots of foliage, then let them fruit. I know that pinching off flowers is advice given by some people for all chillies, but I don't always follow it personally, and it is definitely worth pinching buds for the hot wax.

Question, What is M type ? Am I being thick........again? ( that bits rhetorical, before any of you comedians start )

I don't remove flowers. I don't have 2 or 3 weeks to spare at any time during the growing season. The season starts late, finishes early.
This year I ( and a few others on the vine ) experimented with decapitation. I won't be doing that again. Yes I had very healthy bushy plants but not enough time in the season for them to produce pods. None decapitated plants produced a lot more. A lot of people will of had different results. It all depends on your location.

[JusPotterinTim]

Just trying to get my head around this...so in the Summer you don't let them crop fully? They stay the size to fit the blowaway?
Chilli plants can (obviously depending on variety) grow to 6ft or more and carry hundreds of pods per year. You would fill your freezer in the Summer if you used your growlights to start off some seeds early.

I didn't have to prune them at all, and got a few dozen pods. Yes space will be a bit tight in there once they are growing well, but they all fitted this year, just about. They are in 3l and 6l pots, due to space constraints, but if I had a larger greenhouse then I would consider using 10L+ pots for more yield in the summer.

To be honest I prefer having less in one go and a more steady supply throughout the year, I prefer the texture of fresher pods.

[Scarlet]

Captain has good weather, he's down south. His chopped off plants produced much less do he won't be doing it again.
Mine were lovely looking but the cropped ones didn't perform as well either to be honest. My uncropped black naga..was very straggly, it didn't look pretty but I think I got at least 120pods of it. Though I couldn't get it to set fruit in a bag just got the one pod. Though ive plenty that "may" have crossed with a trinidad scorpion butch