Chillies - what are you growing/overwintering?

[Ms-T]

SusieG I have not grown habaneros before, so if it's the same as yours, so it must be ok..

[Lumpy]

Should I pick some of the flowers off or just let the plant decide?

[Ms-T]

I always pick off the first round of flowers then leave it up to the plant.

[Lumpy]

You lot are such wonderful people - so free with your advice and help - Ta!

[the big lebowski]

hi ,my chillis are not doing that well i have managed to overwinter some (75%) survived but now they are looking abit sorry for themselfs has anyone started to add feed to there watering scheduale ? any thoughts welcome ,cheers

[Ms-T]

HI TBL
yes I would give them a little feed.
What I do with my overwinter ones is to repot them when I see new shoots ,into new compost with a little bit of slow release fertiliser,I find this helps. Then feed weekly as soon as chilli's start to grow.
mine are 4&3 years old.

[Ms-T]

TBL
can we see some photos of yours and what sort are they...we like to be nosey

[Scarlet]

hi ,my chillis are not doing that well i have managed to overwinter some (75%) survived but now they are looking abit sorry for themselfs has anyone started to add feed to there watering scheduale ? any thoughts welcome ,cheers

Yes, I have. I repotted into bigger pots and added some chicken manure pellets. They have flowers so ive been feeding weekly with diluted worm feed.

[Scarlet]

HI TBL
yes I would give them a little feed.
What I do with my overwinter ones is to repot them when I see new shoots ,into new compost with a little bit of slow release fertiliser,I find this helps. Then feed weekly as soon as chilli's start to grow.
mine are 4&3 years old.

Should have read this post before posting ^^^^^

[Scarlet]

Help..................the flowers on my sweet peppers are falling off - any ideas why?

Yes. Very common for the first lot of flowers to drop off. They are fussy with the wrong temperatures etc...Try hand pollinating some. Take a flower, rub your finger on the pollen (or a paint brush, makeup brush etc) and go around all the flowers moving the pollen around. They will soon set. I do this every year in the early days of flowering.

[Scarlet]

Ms-T just fabulous!!!

I notice your habaneros are smaller than your other babies - which gives me much encouragement as mine too, are soo much smaller than the other varieties I have growing (sown at the same time) : is this a natural trait of habaneros, perhaps?

They are very slow growing, don't expect much of a crop in the first year. Second year is huge and they overwinter beautifully.

[SusieG]

They are very slow growing, don't expect much of a crop in the first year. Second year is huge and they overwinter beautifully.

Thank you, Scarlet!!
I wasn't aware of that - don't know how I thought that I was going to try to force 'em to grow, though!!!
Perhaps put them next to their 'cousins' and shame them into growing ......

This info has helped loads, 'cos I'm taking 10 plants into work (when I go back ...) and am asking for donations for them. (All proceeds to go to The Brain Tumour Charity, which is very close to our hearts as we lost two work friends in as many months to this disease this year - my more able-bodied colleagues are all doing the London to Brighton walk at the end of May to raise funds for this much underfunded cause...)

I wanted to provide 'growing info' for the buyers as none of my work colleagues are into growing, certainly not chillis, and I just know one of them is going to ask me about them!!!

[Scarlet]

Ok, update on mine


Manzano

Hungarian black wax


Royal black - this looks really bushy and I had high hopes for these. I've got two, they both look the same and are probably only just over 2 inches tall can't believe they will have any chance of fruiting this year

[SusieG]

Scarlet, they look fine specimens! I love the shape of the Hungarian black wax!

[Scarlet]

Cayennes - I've two, pinched out both, and also taken loads of flowers off. I want it to be a little bigger before it starts to fruit.


This is a Jalepeno - I've pinched it out heavily, both top and side shoots. As an experiment I transferred it from a 4inch pot straight into a flower bucket with chicken manure pellets. It's grown really well.

Padron - I've two of these, this one branched off lovely without pinching out. The other has just grown up straight with one shoot. That one will have its head chopped off