Chilli growing for 2013

So, how should I go about pruning?

I've just cut off all the offshoots, leaving the stem and any thickish branches, cutting them before the node.. but some photos online have cut them back to complete stems.

Any help appreciated!

 

Example:

 

growlist:

Dedo de moca
Fatalii red + yellow
Carolina Reaper
Snow white
Jelly Bean
Trinidad Scorp MB
Trinidad Scorp yellow
White hab
Peter pepper red yellow + orange
Mini Bell
Little Elf
Brain strain
Fatalii burgundy (i think thats how its spelt)
Turbo Pube
Brown rocotto
Naga
Mem jolokia
Tabasco
Potuguese Piri Piri
My own strains growing out the (F1, about 7 different crosses, which will be revealed at a later date)
Cheiro de roxa
Aribibbi gusano

and a few more varieties if they take my fancy as and when i see them, i still have heaps of spare seed though but may do another charity sale shortly so could solve the problem of having too much excess seed :D

 

We seem to have 6 Chilli threads and 1 red pepper thread in the first eight !!! Can we consolidate posting possibly in this one , I am sure the other veggies would like a look in

Just found another chill thread at number 18

 

LOL sorry bored at work, was looking through the older posts so my fault some of them have poss come back up previously

 

Thats OK James , I enjoy reading your Chilli posts
Mine are 3 weeks old now , and been in the light box for 2 weeks . The second set of true leaves are just showing , so I'll prick them out in another week.
I saved seed from last years Hungarian Wax . Now one batch is the picture of health , the other , at the front of the photo , is a paler green ? I think I will dump them as I have more than enough of the others.

 

My Jalapeno has a flower

 

Few buds on my Winky Chillies.

 

Mine are rubbish ... I've had zero germination from several, and disappointing plants from the rest :( Ditto for Sweet Peppers and Aubergines.

Too late to sow-again ?? Replacements from the Garden Centre (my normal cop-out) are either single plants in 1L pots that I refuse to pay £XX each for, or little trays of seedlings (which would be fine) were 50% are already dead ...

I wanted a couple of cucumbers too. Garden Centre normally have half-decent plants, but all the trays-of-3 had only one surviving plant in (and they are still stickered at full price!!)

Need to go a bit further-afield to some more caring nurseries I think ...

 

My Chillies are flowering and the Hungarian Hot wax and Fuego Chillis are forming.
Kristen the Chilli plants our local GC sell are pretty cheap £1.50 a plant . I think this is the only cheap plant they sell ! I suppose it depends how many you need to buy . Have you no Chilli farms down your way?

 

I would say its too late from seed for the more exotic plants - you may get away with something fast growing like cayenne but my hotties are only just getting going & most of them went under the growlight back in Feb.

Ive got a couple of spares if you are up in Oxfordshire anytime soon, otherwise plants from WorldOfChillies have been getting good reviews elsewhere this week.

 

Actually I only want a couple of chillie plants, and I particularly want the one I grow as that's what I like to cook with - which probably narrows down the options hugely ...

But for a "re-sow" (or buy from G-Centre) I was really meaning Sweet Peppers - where I would like to grow 20 plants, or thereabouts.

 

Can you not get treatment for that?