2018 Chilli Growing thread

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 30 Jan 2018 at 14:30

wiiija said:
I'll investigate postage prices

Awesome thanks

valve90210 · 31 Jan 2018 at 09:44

I've managed to over winter my scotch bonnet plant (so far at least) and I'm hoping it'll do well for me this year. I'd also like to grow some anchos with the intention of drying them for chilli powder. Need to find a good home though as the window sill where I've grown my last two scotch bonnets isn't going to be an option this year. Anyone grown them in one of those small plastic green houses?

NickK · 31 Jan 2018 at 22:06

Brrrr .. not chilli outdoors weather yet!

valve90210 · 1 Feb 2018 at 10:06

Oh no, I was thinking more for later in the year. lol

samcat · 1 Feb 2018 at 10:38

valve90210 said:
Anyone grown them in one of those small plastic green houses?

Yes (well, one of the grow frames rather than greenhouse ones) and have overwintered successfully in one as well...Its well sheltered, next to the house and gets sun all day (if the sun is out) in deep winter so worked well.

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 2 Feb 2018 at 08:22

Put first set of seeds into (new) heated prop last night, those pesky zimbabwe blacks I have been struggling to germinate
Be interesting to see if this works out any better

Will be putting some more into it over the weekend

Street · 4 Feb 2018 at 20:15

Mine are coming along nicely. From the seeds I planted I have 4 kitchen peppers, 6 basket of fires, 4 habaneros and 2 carolina reapers. I'll keep a couple each of the strongest plants when I pot them on and give the rest away so I'm not over run.

LewisRaz · 4 Feb 2018 at 21:35

Wow! I need to get my act together and get some compost. Still yet to get them started.

samcat · 4 Feb 2018 at 22:16

First couple of tiny heads poking through today..

NickK · 5 Feb 2018 at 19:10

Mayday.. lost where I put my frozen chilli peppers at the weekend :eek:

Plants seems to be overwintering in the conservatory nicely!

LewisRaz · 5 Feb 2018 at 21:18

Seeds have gone into airing cupboard today. Will check up on them in a week.

Squid Vicious · 11 Feb 2018 at 16:51

Planted mine today - 6 of each of hungarian hot wax, aji limon, pepperoncini, scotch bonnet and padron di pimento.

Once they're up will thin them out and settle on 2 of each plant - hopefully 3 padron though - need enough to produce sufficient crops for servings of fried padron peppers

LewisRaz · 17 Feb 2018 at 13:38

Just took mine out of the airing cupboard. Ghosts have a 100% success rate!... But my bonnets have only 5 or 6 seeds that have grown out of 20.

Moved them to the windowsill now to grow a few leaves before potting individually.

DXP55 · 17 Feb 2018 at 22:14

Not going to do any this year - still got 2/3rds of jar of dried and crushed chillies and two bottles of chillies in vinegar and spices. - wife will be pleased as it frees up greenhouse a bit.

Squid Vicious · 19 Feb 2018 at 18:37

No sign of life on mine yet but still a lil' chilly :rolleyes:

in the house - heating mat delivered today so they're on there now and will see what happens over the next week.

Also used some left over general purpose compost from last year which may not have been great condition - got some John Innes No' 1 on the weekend so if no results by the weekend will try another batch in fresh potting compost on the heating mat from day 1.

Squid Vicious · 21 Feb 2018 at 19:22

First sign of life - couple of the Aji Limons have stuck their heads out the compost

Squid Vicious · 5 Mar 2018 at 13:33

Just re-potted everything - I'll thin out the weaker plants as soon as one or other is established.

Also, I had only 3 of 6 Scotch bonnet germinate but they then failed take hold so trying again with another batch of seeds.

... Now if there was only some way to keep the cat off them I could keep them in the conservatory rather than window sill in kitchen.

Street · 9 Mar 2018 at 15:41

My chillis are starting to have a bit of a growing spurt. One of the Reapers looks a bit pathetic still but the other one is a decent size. I'll need to give a few away before I pot them on again so I don't get over run.

Squid Vicious said:
... Now if there was only some way to keep the cat off them I could keep them in the conservatory rather than window sill in kitchen.

One of the damn cats ruined mine last year and set me back by a month or so. There were doing well and they were all knocked off the window sill and broken! Now they live in the porch, out of the way of prying paws.

Mark A · 13 Mar 2018 at 22:07

@Street, they are looking good! Is that just using natural light?

Quick question, is there a known brand of compost thats best, or does it not really matter? Wilko do Westland multi purpose with John innes (whatever that is) and they do Miracle-gro which is a bit more expensive.

I bought some plug plants from ebay as I didn't get around to growing from seed again. Ordered Pimientos De Padron, Ancho Grande, Lemon Drop, Cayenne and the seller threw in a birds eye demon for free.

Squid Vicious · 14 Mar 2018 at 11:31

@Mark A with plugs you should be fine with some multipurpose compost.

John Innes describes a set of formulas for soil composition suited to the different stages of plant growth.