The 2015 Chilli Thread

Looking good.

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Here are some of our Nagas. I hope to sell the plants to raise money for our charity. Most members of the public won't buy Nagas but the Asian wholesaler who supplies Indian restaurants will try and sell them for us.

Different stages of growth but all photographed at the same time.

 

They'll do OK now. There are always debates as to when to start feeding them but I'm always happy to start once the buds are on.

 

Harry,

Last year, I used Formulex ( http://www.growthtechnology.com/product/formulex/ ) as my all round liquid fertiliser, and when buds started showing, I used Buddha's Tree pk 9-18 ( http://www.buddhastree.co.uk/pk918.php ), I had a huge number of buds and had a great harvest as well.

Last year was the first year I had grown a large number of Chilli plants, so have no past comparison, but suffice to say, I'll be growing in the same manner this year.

I should just add, that my chilli plants were mainly in pots and I used 30% 5 year old manure, 65% compost and 5% perlite, the bottoms of each pot had about a 15mm base of Hydroton clay pebbles.

I recently won a competition and have got a 10KG bad of Volcanic rock dust coming through, which I'll be using as well this year, the Kernow Chilli Farm swears by it.

 

Oh, it was nothing really Jenny, it was just one of those 'Share and comment' things on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cornish-volcanic-rock-dust/1627378137493930?fref=ts

 

I did and am feeding my baby chilli plants with it, though as young plants, I am feeding at approximately 1/4 strength.

It is the Buddha's tree which really does make the plants flower heavily, it isn't cheap, but when you work out how concentrated it actually is, I still have half a 250ml bottle which I bought at about this time last year. One thing I would say about it's use, is that it is unfortunately not organic, and I was advised to stop feeding with Buddhas Tree around 2 weeks before I was going to harvest any pods, as it 'may' affect the taste, after 2 weeks though, it will have worked itself out.

Primarily, Buddhas Tree is aimed at Cannabis Growers (the labels are a dead give away ).

There are other fertilisers that can be used ie Chilli Focus etc, but I liked the idea of Formulex being the all round fertiliser, as you said, for use on house plants as well. I also use Formulex to give the Chilli plants a foliar feed every week during the growing season.

 

Re: lighting,

I have a 6x T5 light unit over the aquarium with 1 Purple tube, 1 Blue and 4 White tubes

 

I just use windows

(Waiting for the jokes )

 

Wassat!!!