Chillies 2019

I grow a variety of Cayenne , I find they take 8 to 12 days to show . This is in the airing cupboard at 30°c.
I see you are growing Hungarian hot wax , a lovely chilli Thats on my 2020 planting list now !

 

Maybe I need different compost. I go to B&Q but they don't seem to have any 'seed' compost, so I get the bags of Verve 'multi-purpose'.

 

As far as I'm aware different composts are formulated for different stages in seed/plants life so I just go along with that.

 

I'm doing my second wave of sowing this week, and I strongly suspect that I will get good crops from these later-sown seeds. I'd say, if you have some seeds from last year, give them a go. You have little to loose, and the possibility of some interesting "non-standard" chillies to gain!

 

This weekend's update. The tray contains cayenne and habanero. Are any of them ready to be put into pots (which I believe is what you mean when you say 'pot on'?)?



And here are my Trinidad Moruga.



It's been an average of 9.0°C outside since the beginning of the month, so I'm not ready to put them outside yet. But when do you reckon I should think of moving them to bigger pots? Someone mentioned May recently ..?

 

Can I ask you to explain the above?

When you say, '...the Trinidad should be moved into individual pots', that seems to contradict what you wrote later, which is, '...don't move them to bigger pots than you are showing until much later'.

So do you mean I should move them now, or wait?

Or do you mean that I should transplant them right now, but into pots of the same size? I don't think I have any of them, so that'll be a quick jaunt to B&Q.

Thank you. :-)

 

@joh98.mac I think what @shiney is trying to say is that the size of pots you have your moruga in are fine until you plant out but only one to a pot, not three.

I look at it this way. I start my seedlings in soil blocks. If they germinate and do well, they move onto their own pot. If they don't germinate the soil goes back to be reused for other soil blocks. If the potted ones do well and get bigger, then they get a bigger pot or in your case, weather permitting, it's time to plant out.

My super hots never go in the ground. I keep them in pots and the largest pot I move them up to is about 3 gallon size.

 

Gotcha.

B&Q it is, then. I'm off for a quick shower.

 

None of mine actually go into the ground. I have about twenty huge pots sitting out in the garden. I'm considering buying one of those big 'table' like kind of growing platforms.

 

Aaarrgh, what do you call those things? 'seed table' and 'growing table' on diy.com isn't coming up with anything..