THE CHILLIES THREAD 2018

Wait on a minute ive not finished with last years yet , I guess they will be no good now.

 

@shiney OMG I would suffer eating peppers

 

Thank you S, ill be growing something different this year I will salvage what I can and put the rest on the compost heap, my friends wife's thai and will love them, far too hot for me

 

I cut back my chilli plants last November and they've started growing again with flowers, i keep them in a unheated conservatory. I don't water them too much.

 

If anyone would like to try growing chillies from my 'stock' variety, or wants to do a swap, P.M. me your address. It's a long, medium-to-hot green type, turning red in late summer. Easy to de-seed, chop, dry or turn into chilli jelly. Originally from Bali.

 

When are folks sowing theirs? I’m thinking mid February. Mine will be started in the propagater, in the greenhouse. I only need a couple of plants, so I plan to leave them in there after potting up. The big issue though as always is lack of light, a real pain...

 

Last weekend in January is the start of my seed sowing season, I sow my Chillies and Sweetpeas .
The chillies go into the airing cupboard where it reaches 30°c for 5 to 7 days , until they just show , then out into the light and a heated prop. Sweet peas do fine in a cool room.

 

Sown my chillies last week in heated propagator, sweet peas are in conservatory sown October

 

I started growing Chilies about 6 years ago , Cherry Bomb was my first as advised on a Chili site. I was also advised to soak my seeds overnight in luke warm tea. So I always do this and get pretty good germination rates, the contribution from the tea soak is up for debate . One aspect of soaking seeds is most sink but sometimes one or two float. These could be non viable seeds (?), but this is another subject with lots of opinions - if anybody can find the thread on this from quite a few years back