2024 Chilli Growing Thread

dave28 said:
Frenso, Apache, Gusto Green and Ring of Fire are good to grow in the UK in my opinion

Apache is a good windowsill plant in the kitchen because it is hot, stays small and makes loads of pods
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Many thanks for that. What time of year is best to start the seeds going?
 
SPArton said:
Many thanks for that. What time of year is best to start the seeds going?
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I started Feb 1st indoors with a heated propagator but some start them in March. I think April is too late but is possible.
Then i use 2 sensi grow lights after they germinate. Only 10 watt bulbs for about 12 hours a day so the electric cost is low.
You dont have to use grow lights, many people use a windowsill, it just helps boost light levels.

And then waited until temps in the day were good enough to leave them in the glasshouse most of the day and bring them in at night.

The issue is that they really hate the cold so you have to nanny them for months and only leave them in the glasshouse / pollytunnel full time when all risk of frost has gone.
Unless you have a heated glasshouse but that is very expensive and not worth it to me.

Or the much easier way is simply to buy them from your local garden centre or you might find someone local to you selling plants.

It is quite hard work, next year i think that i will just buy some Apache plants from my garden centre in mid April.

You can get good results though, i have way more pods than i know what to do with. I pickled a huge jar full, i have loads in the freezer and loads hanging up in the glasshouse drying and now there must be another dozer ready to do something with and several hundred green ones waiting to ripen.
 
I initially sowed 40 seeds of different varieties and all but 6 germinated and grew well, I had to give away 20, still have too many left.

Not too happy in the greenhouse ATM, way too hot and watering is not helping them
 
Hagar said:
My chillis are wilting in the greenhouse. I had the roof vent open and also the door, i have moved them to the patio and watered around the base of the stems.

The cheyenne F1 are full of fruits, scotch bonnets not so much yet.

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nice plants you want whitewash on the glass panes.helps.
 
Well my 10 year old overwintered chilli, i think has had its day, got a few very small chilli's on it, think this will be its last season, will send it to compost heaven.
 
I have begun picking the cheyenne F1 chilli peppers for freezing. They are very peppery and I could not finish one that I tried to eat raw. They will be just right cooked as part of a chilli con carne or a three bean chilli dish.
 
Additionally, I am going on holiday for a week and intend putting all the plants which are in pots into larger buckets filled with water. These will be in a greenhouse with roof vents open.

I do not have anyone to water them living nearby. And I am hoping that this will enable the plants to survive for the next week which does not appear to be very hot in the forecast. Any thoughts?
 
Hagar said:
Additionally, I am going on holiday for a week and intend putting all the plants which are in pots into larger buckets filled with water. These will be in a greenhouse with roof vents open.

I do not have anyone to water them living nearby. And I am hoping that this will enable the plants to survive for the next week which does not appear to be very hot in the forecast. Any thoughts?
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Answering my own question, it worked fine.
 
Had a big harvest other week with some AJI pineapples, and others,

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A few Carolina reapers are going red,

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And the AJI fantasy Orange are really flavoursome with good heat.

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