I guess you can start now but it might be easier to just go to a local plant nursery as they have chilli and tom and other stuff in stock now so id get somit from them or B&Q if u have one or maybe Wilkinsons. As to what, well any chilli really tho dwarf variety if u dont have 2 foot of height available.
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Can anyone help me with a issue with 2 of my plants?
I tried over-wintering 2 Dorset Nagas, planted them a little late to get any fruit. Some of the leaves now have dark spots on them and appear to be dieing off.
Are the plants done or can they be rescued?
I tried over-wintering 2 Dorset Nagas, planted them a little late to get any fruit. Some of the leaves now have dark spots on them and appear to be dieing off.
Are the plants done or can they be rescued?
Can anyone help me with a issue with 2 of my plants?
I tried over-wintering 2 Dorset Nagas, planted them a little late to get any fruit. Some of the leaves now have dark spots on them and appear to be dieing off.
Are the plants done or can they be rescued?
some of my leaves had that a while back, i had to feed them and now i dont get it anymore.
Well I've got 4 scotch bonnets potted, the leaves curled up on a couple of them when I transplanted them, but starting to look better now.
I also have a few choc habs growing, one has a few leaves now and looks strong even though it's quite a bit smaller than the scotch bonnets. Two are teeny tiny and still in the propagator, the last one however looks really quite ill, so I decided to take it out of the propagator and place it in a pot, upon doing so it lost it's last leaf, is it basically dead now, can a plant survive without any leaves?
I also have a few choc habs growing, one has a few leaves now and looks strong even though it's quite a bit smaller than the scotch bonnets. Two are teeny tiny and still in the propagator, the last one however looks really quite ill, so I decided to take it out of the propagator and place it in a pot, upon doing so it lost it's last leaf, is it basically dead now, can a plant survive without any leaves?
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Cheers, haven't been feeding them yet this year. I'll give that a try and also pay more attention to how much water they get.
I'd go and buy a plant now if I was you, its a little late to start from seed now I think.
If you want easy, then get a Bell pepper plant. I found these grew far faster than my chilli plants and produced quite a few peppers, even though I started then late.
Think mine are called California wonder bell peppers.
Also if you do want to start from seed then get some Tesco finest pointed red peppers and plant a few seeds. All mine germinated and they are growing amazingly well. Already got flower buds on and I planted them in February.
BTW if anyone else's plants are infested with them little black flies (fungus gnats?) then i've found a good solution that seems to have worked. Get some damascus earth, its "fossilized remains of diatoms, a type of hard-shelled algae" in the form of a fine powder. Just sprinkle it over the soil around infected plants and it kills all the larvae in the soil. Supposed to work for alphids as well, but you mix the powder with water and spray it on the leaves.
Think I might get some sharp sand and put that on top, or even better some fine gravel. Should stop them coming back.
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I was having serious issues with these last Autumn and over the Winter, but this year I've started watering them all from the bottom. As the top never really gets that moist now they've all but disappeared.
Yeah I think that's how I got them as I watered them over winter and the top of the soil stayed pretty damp for a long time.
Its a PITA soaking them in a bucket though as I have like 30 plants
. I'm hoping that now I've eradicated them, I can put some aggregate on top of the soil and continue to water from the top.
ive got a 1inch layer of perlite over all my plants and it seems to be stopping any..
ive got a sticky er fly paper trap suspended above my plants aswell with like 5 gnats on it that must have came in the window ! its not even proper gnat weather yet either soon we will see hundreds of them outside
ive got a sticky er fly paper trap suspended above my plants aswell with like 5 gnats on it that must have came in the window ! its not even proper gnat weather yet either soon we will see hundreds of them outside
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I have a few pots of "super chillis" growing at the moment. They germinated nicely in a propigator and I repotted them into pot, though had forgotten that they don't really like to go straight into large pots, and put them into some 7 inch pots.
That was about 2 weeks ago and since then, they don't seem to have grown hardly at all.
I've been making sure the soil is not too dry nor too wet, but they just don't seem to be growing. Would I be right in thinking they are probably just growing roots at the moment due to the large pots and hence not growing much above the soil?
Will they start to grow properly or have I failed for the year?
That was about 2 weeks ago and since then, they don't seem to have grown hardly at all.
I've been making sure the soil is not too dry nor too wet, but they just don't seem to be growing. Would I be right in thinking they are probably just growing roots at the moment due to the large pots and hence not growing much above the soil?
Will they start to grow properly or have I failed for the year?
Posting this more or less copy of what i just done in a journal entry on folia site i go to. Check file names to see whats in the pictures.
Repotted up the last 2 cherokee purples the other day and one pink brandywine.
Rest of em are doing great.
One microtom i thought wasnt going to grow in heated propagator has managed to break through the soil and sprout 2 leaves lol. Hadnt even sprayed it with water for over a week or have it switched on for heat to germinate. The others in propagator didnt do anything tho.
So will need to put the micro tom in a pot soon.
My windowsill in living room is pretty full. Im dreading potting up as it will just make less space available And i dont want to use the bedroom or kitchen windowsills as the livingroom is the best one.
Repotted up the last 2 cherokee purples the other day and one pink brandywine.
Rest of em are doing great.
One microtom i thought wasnt going to grow in heated propagator has managed to break through the soil and sprout 2 leaves lol. Hadnt even sprayed it with water for over a week or have it switched on for heat to germinate. The others in propagator didnt do anything tho.
So will need to put the micro tom in a pot soon.My windowsill in living room is pretty full. Im dreading potting up as it will just make less space available
And i dont want to use the bedroom or kitchen windowsills as the livingroom is the best one.
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I'd probably think about it over the next couple of weeks. I'm in a similar position to you, albeit with only 3 plants
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I dont normally correct people, but people might not have the desired effect with soil from Damascus
I bought 2 bottles of diatomaceous earth from amazon for about £15 (for carpet beetles, this stuff seems to kill anything!) and it seems to go quite a long way. The only trouble is its like talc so any breeze while you're applying it and you're wearing it . You might want to invest in a cheap mask as I've heard it can be nasty if u inhale it. I had problems with spider mite on my plants last year and ill be giving this stuff a go for that too.
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Well have just planted my first chillies. Have always loved hot food and after trying some of the various sauces from hotsauceemporium I have decided to grow my own and see what results I get, I have started from a cheap little b&q starter kit but as a first attempt I thought this would be a good place to start.
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Really need to get some snaps of mine, getting on for a foot high, starting to brown off on the stems in places too.
Some need moving/repotting though, only have space for 6 pots, one is my dragon tree, and one other spot gets less sun.
So have about 6 or 7 nice big plants, about 5 normal plants, and two weedier ones (still like 4 inches high though) in 5 pots...
Might buy some more pots and give them away
Some need moving/repotting though, only have space for 6 pots, one is my dragon tree, and one other spot gets less sun.
So have about 6 or 7 nice big plants, about 5 normal plants, and two weedier ones (still like 4 inches high though) in 5 pots...
Might buy some more pots and give them away