Chillies 2021

That sounds ok to me, I wondered if you were feeding them with a general purpose soluble product like Miraclegro.

I am growing just one variety, Tabasco. I have a few plants in different places and the one in my small heavily shaded greenhouse is doing the best. They always do well in there even though it is poor soil and a cucumber plant is growing alongside too close. I have picked one ripe so far, but it is packed with fruit.

The other plants are getting more sun in my other 2 greenhouses and are a bit behind.

I have lots of sweet pepper plants which are much earlier than the chillies, I started picking a few weeks ago. All these are in the greenhouse soil borders too.

I only feed them all when they start flowering.

 

I sowed my chillies and peppers in January, they do need a early start.

 

I grow all mine in MPC and, like @JWK , then feed with tomato food only once the flowers form. They get fed just a light feed once a week.

As with others, they're not ripening as quickly as normal. They're certainly prolific but I restrict their growth by keeping them in small pots. I would guess that the plants are no more than a foot high but completely smothered in fruit.

I do them that way because they take up less room and a lot of people that buy them from me buy them as ornamentals and house plants.

The Nagas that I grow for the Asian community are grown to full height.

I must take a photo or two but can't take any of the Nagas as they have all gone to their new homes

@CanadianLori how have your ShineyHybrids done this year?

 

@Ademission We grow Naga Morich which is supposed to be the original (not crossbred) extremely hot chilli. They are thought to have originated in a few areas of NE India but the Bangladeshi ones are normally the favourite. Nagaland is an Indian state next to Bangladesh but not thought to be the origin.









We crossbred our own hybrids many years ago and neither of us can remember which chillies we used






And when we sometimes train them as ornamentals

 

Hi @Ademission The Nagas look advanced because they are not from this year although the photos were taken in August. We didn't grow Nagas this year as we didn't know whether the restaurants that buy most of them would be open.

The ornamentals are from a previous year but are the same as the ones in the other pictures. So those are the ones we can't remember which two varieties we crossed for them. I know I have some photos somewhere of one of the original varieties. I'll have to try and remember where they are on the computer - and remember that I'm supposed to look for them

No, we don't run a shop or Garden Centre. We open our garden for charity once a year and sell plants then and also people order plants from us and pop in all year round for them. We had to cancel both last year and this year because of Covid. We used to open on Bank Holiday weekend at the end of May each year, all day Saturday and then Sunday afternoon and had about 500 people turn up (we've been doing it for most of this century ).

Apart from our plant sale we had non-stop entertainment, tea/coffee, cakes cream teas, book stall, craft stalls, therapists doing massage (legs/back/heads etc. and reflexology) and a few other things.

It was a good time for GC members to have a meet up and we normally had about 20 turn up.

Last year, despite not being open, we ended up raising nearly £5,000 with plant sales and donations.

There's a thread here on GC for each of the years the members came and this was 2017

I think photos start around page 12

Special Invite To Forum Members - 2017

The entertainment was always good - singers (different styles), dancers (Flamenco, belly dancers etc.), ukulele bands - and this was a short video Roders took of some young professional singers that had been coming for a few years

 

This is one of the parents of our ShineyHybrids but can't remember the other. The photos were taken on a November day. We picked the plant because it was prolific, started flowering in May and continued producing fruit until late March. It was in its third year.