Chilli plants potted up ....

My peppers certainly do not look like that, mostly small weak looking things - I do not give them much pot time but right into the ground, sink or swim and then no care but erratic and likely excessive fertilizing. I buy 10-10-10 (40 pound bags of N,P2O5,KO2 at 10% each by weight) I use 2-3 bags a year on the trees on my properties spring and summer feedings so have a great bin of it. I really need something like 24-8-16 like Miracle grow because the P is slow to leach and messes up soil fertility where large amounts of compost are used - but I am too cheap to buy it so end up with leaf cirrhosis and stunted stuff - sort of fighting my self over lack of bothering to do it all right.

But then I already produce too much so if my stuff looked as good as yours I would spend too much time trying to give it away instead of just tossing the bug eaten - yellow - stunted stuff over the fence where the chickens devour it.

 

Interesting to note that you plant them in the ground. I guess cold weather isn't that much of an issue?

 

Excellent post @shiney , thanks for that

 

I dunno if I posted this already, but I went to a chilli farm in Devon, last year. They had a tunnel dedicated to showing off the different varieties, planted side by side. Wonderful colours, and a thing of beauty to behold

 

Maybe a heat pad/mat?

 

That's what I would be looking at, but I'm certainly not an authority

 

I've a couple of Naga's going spare if anyone wants them