The 2011 Chilli growing thread - it's scorching!

It isn't quite what you asked for, but this (pdf) has to be posted- it is a research paper by the New Mexico Chile Task Force titled "Chile Seed Germination as Affected by Temperature and Salinity". Now there's a good place to work!

You can probably germinate at a lower temperature, but with a lower success rate. I've germinated Habaneros and Scotch Bonnets at 19/ 20C.
 
DavidMarq said:
I grew Asam Bhut Jolokia, CPI Bhut Jolokia and Chocolate Bhut Jolokia last season and have both the Chocolate and CPI Bhuts growing this year.

I can confirm that they are fiercely hot, however I rate the Trinidad Scorpions I grew last year as hotter.
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What did you use them all for? I'm struggling to think what i can make if I do get any from this Naga.
 
Could always make some mace and sell it to ppl. :D

When i have chillis ready ill probs try jaring some, making a marinade for meat, a table sauce maybe add some blended chillis in with tom sauce or somit and of course add to currys and all sorts really.

One thing ill probs try with few chillis, with drinks. Like you have ginger beer, well what about chilli beer. :p Just grab a gigner beer or somit and add some blended chillis in and leave it for a few days after a little stir or bottle flipping.

Oh and chillis with spag bol is nice.
 
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I made chilli sherry last year, which was very nice.

1 bottle of Fino, 2 scotch bonnets cut into thin slices.

Add slices to Fino, recork and leave for 2+ months in a dark place- that seemed to work :)
 
My Cayenne leaves keep withering! I don't know what's cracking off, they don't need watering but the leaves go all rubbery and limp.

The only think I can think of is that it is too hot for them. The Scotch Bonnets are fine. Any ideas?
 
to hot for them and they dont have a good enough root system, i had the same crap last year after 10mins in the sun they would start wilting , i was in and out of the house like an idiot for around a week before they finally could handle the sun.

you could try trimming some leafs off or be patient and wait for them to adapt, pulling leafs off might hurt your yields though and cause flowers to drop
 
I thought it would be something like this.

I have 3 Cayennes, two of which are a foot tall and the other is 22" tall. All were planted at the same time so I don't know what one of them has been drinking!

Its mainly the tallest one which suffers the most. I remember that when I re-potted from a 4" pot a few weeks ago that it didn't have a huge root system. I should have left him in the pot instead for a few extra weeks.
 
Mine do that as well, think it's just heat, I leave the door open a bit and within a few hours they are looking good again.

The big plants confuse me they are sprouting leaves from every mm of the trunk, but must be completely shaded from the big leaves, unless there really is that much light being reflected about the place.

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AcidHell2 said:
The big plants confuse me they are sprouting leaves from every mm of the trunk, but must be completely shaded from the big leaves, unless there really is that much light being reflected about the place.
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i dont know about chillis but some types of plants ;) store sugars and other stuff in the leaves until they are needed by er fruits and stuff.

think of leaves as solar panels and batteries and the flowers as the lightbulb
 
topgun06 said:
My Cayenne leaves keep withering! I don't know what's cracking off, they don't need watering but the leaves go all rubbery and limp.

The only think I can think of is that it is too hot for them. The Scotch Bonnets are fine. Any ideas?
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Exactly the same thing happened to me. I had 1 Cayenne inside (along with an Apache and a Cheyenne) and 2 outside sharing a huge plant pot. Needless to say the Cayenne that was inside withered away and even after re-potting outside, it was too late and was consequently binned! The other 2 Cayenne that are kept outside are doing a lot better and looking relatively healthy, albeit a few dead ends on the leaves.
 
My Nagas leaves are turning yellow and falling off. These are leaves that are still on from last year. After a quick google all I can find is that its nutrient deficiency, but I fed it with half diluted tomorite a week ago and it made no difference. Any ideas?

I've just put some full strength tomorite on to see if that will help, hope it doesn't burn the roots or anything :eek:.
 
yeah I think so. But I've been told you use 10ml for chilli plants, but that didn't seem to make any difference so I've put tomato strength on.

Think it could be due to the pot being too small as the plant is like twice the size of my cayennes and the 5l pot looks tiny.
 
I was wondering if anyone has any experience with pinching their chilli plant?

I'm lead to believe that this aids in achieving a bushier plant, with branches in close proximity. Apparently pinching the top of the plant, allows the pinched part to branch off into multiple new branches.

My 2 indoor chilli plants (Apache and Cheyenne) are currently 4" tall and the branches are no more than half a centimetre apart. Unfortunately though, there doesn't seem to be a 'top'. The top of both plants are just sets of new leaves and it seems a little pointless to pinch these, especially since they look healthy. I can't see what pinching would achieve?

Cheers.
 
Pinching basically lets you have a bushier plant you let the plant grow 5 offshoots from the main steam. Then you cut or "pinch" the growing tip and this will make the plant grow new shoots "suckers" some say out of the offshoots. This can keep a plant low height but bush out sideways.
 
SkeeterUK said:
Pinching basically lets you have a bushier plant you let the plant grow 5 offshoots from the main steam. Then you cut or "pinch" the growing tip and this will make the plant grow new shoots "suckers" some say out of the offshoots. This can keep a plant low height but bush out sideways.
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Thanks Skeeter.

Since my plants have roughly 10-15 branches already, and there isn't really a top of the plant (it's just a set of leaves) am I too late to do so?
 
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