2021 Season Chilli Growing

Thanks @Griffo yup the second one is the overwintered plant.
All my others died but this one survived which was great as it was my favourite from last season.
It's a genuine Jamaican Scotch Bonnet, I got the seeds from a friend who is from there and he got it from his family's garden from over there.
Cutting back aggressively, trimming the roots and refreshing the growing media is the way to do it I think.

The leaf situation is a bit of a head scratcher, I did some searching and looked at some deficiency charts but looks like it could be a few things.
Manganese deficiency, are you using cal mag?
If nothing on the underside of the leaves then not oedema I don'think.
Potentially a virus of somekind? Can you quarantine that plant, are any of the others showing the same thing?
 
When can I start hardening off my chillis outside? I live in the South East. Is it better to wait till end of May? I am growing in a West facing window at the moment.
 
Rathian said:
Thanks @Griffo yup the second one is the overwintered plant.
All my others died but this one survived which was great as it was my favourite from last season.
It's a genuine Jamaican Scotch Bonnet, I got the seeds from a friend who is from there and he got it from his family's garden from over there.
Cutting back aggressively, trimming the roots and refreshing the growing media is the way to do it I think.

The leaf situation is a bit of a head scratcher, I did some searching and looked at some deficiency charts but looks like it could be a few things.
Manganese deficiency, are you using cal mag?
If nothing on the underside of the leaves then not oedema I don'think.
Potentially a virus of somekind? Can you quarantine that plant, are any of the others showing the same thing?
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Ah thanks @Rathian And 'deficiency' was the key word I couldn't think of for googling! I'm in a hard water area, so thought cal mag wasn't required. Though I did buy a bottle for some reason, before I understood where it was used. Although that's magnesium not manganese.

Nothing much has changed leaf wise in the last few days, so I'm sticking to "keeping an eye on it" approach I think.

Regarding virus, these are the two sainsburys kids sharing the cracker hydro box. The other one actually appears to be fine! Maybe it's growing pains, the naughty one is about 1.5 times the size of the no-symptoms one!

@Maxyboy123 welcome to the fun house! It seems like we're having some cold flipping weather the last few days, but I'd suggest schooling them up good with a few hours outside when it's sunny is always going to be good (speaks me with almost no experience but a penchant for making plants suffer!). I've left my two over-wintered ones outside since early last week, though sheltered slightly in a mini-tent-greenhouse thing. Although they're probably more durable than the babies. West-facing says they're only getting later afternoon onward sun? Then definitely any more hours of light they're going to be grateful for.
 
@Griffo I think taking the monitoring approach is the best course of action.
So many times I have had a problem with a plant and tried one thing after another to fix it and just made things worse.
If it gets drastic then you can intervene :)

@Maxyboy123 Welcome dude! On the hardening off front it is difficult to say. In my experience I only put them out when the temp is above 12 degrees during the day and it is sunny with no significant wind, or rain. I only leave them out for a short period of about an hour to start with then slowly up it. It is a bit of a faff at this time of year so you might want to just wait a bit until things are a bit warmer and sunnier outside. One mistake I have made before is that when they wilted during / post hardening I panicked and overwatered them which then took them about 3-4 days to get over. If they do wilt which they likely will then just bring them in again and leave them be.

I swear the easiest way to kill a chilli plant is by over caring for it :cry:
 
We are due to move within the next 8 (hopefully 6) weeks so I haven't started anything this year for fear of them being ruined in the move :(

I have space for what hopefully will be a lean to greenhouse in the new house (side of garage too so will be looking at heated and electric venting if possible)!

Had a very poor year last year so hopefully next year will be better with a slightly better setup.
 
@rhysduck Good shout I think, moving is stressful enough without having to transport fragile plants!
Hopefully once you are in the new place you can buy some plug plants for this season and get that lean to setup for them to live in.
I put a little coldframe together last year and it was an awesome home for my plants, can't wit to get them in there this year.
 
@Rathian @Griffo - thank you both for your suggestions. I will start hardening my Chillies slowly from the latter part of next week. What plant pot size do you recommend for the final pot? I am currently growing Aji Limón, Ring of Fire and Apache in 1/2litre pot
 
No worries @Maxyboy123, on the pot size front I have alway just gone for the biggest I can with the number of plant I have and space available.
To a certain extent the bigger the pot then the bigger the plant al though you do have to take into account the variety of course.
A a general rule of thumb I think about the 5 litre mark work well. Be interested to hear what everyone else thinks...
 
Probably no hardening off activities today then :cry:
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I have 2 inches of woodchip on my soil as it helps with water retention.

The black tape stops light and hopefully algi from forming in the bottles.

Top tip fish and chip shops give away their pickled eggs and pickled onion jars for free. These are 2L bottles which seem perfect for big plants.
 
rotters said:
I have 2 inches of woodchip on my soil as it helps with water retention.

The black tape stops light and hopefully algi from forming in the bottles.

Top tip fish and chip shops give away their pickled eggs and pickled onion jars for free. These are 2L bottles which seem perfect for big plants.
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Interesting, I might have a look up my local chippy. I hadn't noticed the wood chip till you mentioned, I meant to ask what the media is in the top of your pots. Is that to stop things living in the plants?
 
ah I see, I used perlite instead of clay balls, its inert and I have 100l to make my potting mix for all my other plants.
 
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New larger tent! Just waiting on some shelving and second light to arrive then we'll have glorious double decker growing on the go!
 
Terra Aqua/GHE, the nute bottles have in the ground suggestions too, so will see what I can grow side by side, one in soil, one in the bottle.
 
pooey said:
I'd be careful in the warmer months that the reservoirs don't heat up too much
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Im hoping that the larger vessels will stay cooler but I could also drop these into a bucket of water as an insulator against the heat..In fact, I really like that idea.

rotters
 
I noticed some little white/cream looking things on the leaves of my chilli plants. Does anyone know what's going on and if it's good or bad? I managed to pop one off with a mechanical pencil.


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@Cadder Not sure exactly what those guys are but it looks like your leaves are covered in eggs and my advise would be to destroy these little chaps. You can spray some dilute castile soap (or even very dilute fairly liquid) and the bubbles will drown them and the eggs

Edit to add, might not be covered in eggs, is it a c.pubescens variety?
Even if no eggs, nuke with soap to be safe :eek:
 
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