Chillies - growing and overwintering 2018

[Scarlet]

What are you using to bag? How big is your bag? How big are your plants?

[Small pumpkin]

I bag the leaves as well when it's all tight together. They're not bagged for much more than a week.
I take the bag off ones the flowers died/ gone over. Then I tie bright pink ( it's what I had ! ) string around the stem. So I know the hand pollinated ones.

[4Shoes]

What are you using to bag? How big is your bag? How big are your plants?

Baby Blue wedding bags - Size 13 x 17cm

These are the exceptions.... Like SP the 1st few !'ve just bagged either the flower or flower and leaves. Tie string to indicate. The problem plants are where there is a tight cluster of flowers hidden under a canopy of larger leaves with short flower stalks - see 3 (A&B) and 8 (A&B) post 644. What I thought of doing was remove a couple of the large leaves and bag the cluster of flowers but will this harm flower/fruit development?

[Scarlet]

I wouldn't do that. Perhaps get some cheap net curtains and just wrap the plant up. Stick some bamboo canes around the pot so you have something to make a frame. It doesn't have to be up for long.
Those bags are small....you can get bigger ones.
Try some cut off stockings/ pop socks they may be easier to get around just one flower and its stem....them take off when the flower is open, pollinate each flower with finger/paintbrush, cotton bud.
Wait a bit, as the plant gets older it will produce flowers on its branches with longer stem.

[Small pumpkin]

Don't think removing a couple of levels will do any harm. They all cope with being topped ( for those growers that do ).

[4Shoes]

I wouldn't do that. Perhaps get some cheap net curtains and just wrap the plant up. Stick some bamboo canes around the pot so you have something to make a frame. It doesn't have to be up for long.
Those bags are small....you can get bigger ones.
Try some cut off stockings/ pop socks they may be easier to get around just one flower and its stem....them take off when the flower is open, pollinate each flower with finger/paintbrush, cotton bud.
Wait a bit, as the plant gets older it will produce flowers on its branches with longer stem.

Ok - Waiting game it is them.

[Small pumpkin]

I wouldn't do that. Perhaps get some cheap net curtains and just wrap the plant up. Stick some bamboo canes around the pot so you have something to make a frame. It doesn't have to be up for long.
Those bags are small....you can get bigger ones.
Try some cut off stockings/ pop socks they may be easier to get around just one flower and its stem....them take off when the flower is open, pollinate each flower with finger/paintbrush, cotton bud.
Wait a bit, as the plant gets older it will produce flowers on its branches with longer stem.

As ever you never get the same answer twice

I was going to say how big those bags were I've got the really little ones!

I do the waiting game as well. I like the plant to produce it's own offspring before I start playing god with AI

[IainM]

Eeek! It was a little windy last night. All was zipped up but the greenhouse must've been shaking, as the golden ghost fell of the staging and decapitated the Hungarian hot wax. It was one of my fastest growers and I'd only put it in it's final container yesterday. Now its only 3 inches high.

[4Shoes]

Eeek! It was a little windy last night. All was zipped up but the greenhouse must've been shaking, as the golden ghost fell of the staging and decapitated the Hungarian hot wax. It was one of my fastest growers and I'd only put it in it's final container yesterday. Now its only 3 inches high.

Not like I can say "Like". Always bad when that sort of thing happens.

[Scarlet]

As ever you never get the same answer twice )

haha, I know - it won’t hurt the plant but it’s such early days I wouldn’t bother. No harm in waiting a few weeks. The early flowers often drop off anyway, so waiting until the plant has a lot more flowers makes more sense ( to me anyway ) than taking leaves off.

[Scarlet]

Eeek! It was a little windy last night. All was zipped up but the greenhouse must've been shaking, as the golden ghost fell of the staging and decapitated the Hungarian hot wax. It was one of my fastest growers and I'd only put it in it's final container yesterday. Now its only 3 inches high.

Still plenty of time for it to grow and give you some pods!

[4Shoes]

Chris11 Challenge - June Update1.1

Didn't get round to measuring plants yesterday, so to give indication of size, here is the latest table.



Measured in mm

I also have several Red Scotch bonnets that I think are crossed with Ring of Fire that have just taken off - 750mm tall and growing - no flowers yet, a chocolate Habanero (that has only ever produced mini fruit - no seeds), couple Cayenne and a 6 or so sweet peppers in the 450 - 500mm size.

[the big lebowski]

thats some serious organising you have 4 shoes ,good work

[Ms-T]

Really happy with my Black hangarion

[Scarlet]

Lovely plant MsT