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  1. HarryS

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    What type did you grow Ariadae? I sow mine indoors at the end of January and keep them indoors until June when they go in the GH. They must have warmth and sunlight.
     
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    I had some habanero, Serrano, scotch bonnets, chocolate chilli, birds eye. They just didn't flourish.
     
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    The secret is talking to them nicely! :heehee:

    I don't stress them with changes in temperature and keep most of them in the propagator. I've been covering them with plastic, in the evenings, for the last month but even those that are kept on the bench are doing OK.

    The Shiney Hybrids are fairly easy going and forgiving, propagate very easily and don't take up much room.

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    One of the parent plants is still going (think it may be five years old) and you can just see the top of the plant where it sits on the ground below the propagator. It's too big to be mollycoddled and is 5ft wide.

    That's why we Hybridised the plants, so that they would be highly productive without taking up much room. In the process the chillies have become a bit milder than the original very hot parents but are still fairly hot. In my opinion, they vary somewhere between 50,000 and 200,000 on the Scoville scale but would guess that most of them are between 80,000 - 120,000.

    @harry123 Tiddles is Sarafi :blue thumb:. He comes from four doors down but during inclement weather spends most of his time in the propagator or on the shelf near it (which has a bit of carpet).

    With the way the plants are still flowering I expect them to keep producing well into January. I'll give some a winter pruning and let them go dormant (just enough water to keep them alive and no feed) and the others will continue with their once a week, light, feed of tomato food.

    We'll start some more seeds off in December and more in January, but the October ones seem to have taken very well.
     
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      I decided to plant some ferns and grasses round the pond in the rain,had to get out wet or not,or I shall go house crazy;):smile: at the moment I am refilling the pond and then I will turn the pump on,I am soaking wet but just laughing in the rain:heehee::blue thumb:

      One flew over the cuckoo's nest
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        raking and burning leaves. What else.
         
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        another raking leaves, but all get thrown in to fern corner , slug watch in the greenhouse amazing how many under pots !!!
        Nearly dried off all the begonia tubers another week on the benching then I put away in a frost free place in dry compost with a sprinkle of "flowers of Sulphur" on the corms 1st, then a fortnightly check to see if they are ok.

        Potted up some "Pocket Handkerchief seeds" so see what happens in two years time :yikes:

        I have a snowdrop that will be in flower this week now that beats last year, the same one flowered December
         
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          Mostly cutting down and clearing away dead stalks. Cut back all the buddleia. Oh, and weeding - having not been here much over the past few months the weeds have run riot.Amazed at what's all still in bloom - roses, fuschias, begonias, echinacea, rudbeckia and gaillardia all still looking good. We're not due any frost in the near future so I'm guessing it's ok to leave the begonias in for now?
           
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            Wanted to get some clearing up done in the borders but every foot step fills with water after the last couple of days of constant rain so better off keeping off.

            Shushhhh...Don't tell Mr Loli but I had to wash my heated bench cloches in the bath because it's wet enough out there as it is and didn't want to create more standing water,even the drains are full:rolleyespink:
            Shuffled plants around in the GH and rigged up propagators.Got the fleece at the ready as a cold snap is on the cards:blue thumb:
             
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              been down the shed under instruction from @Spruce sorting my begonias out:)
               
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                This morning we finished the hard prune of our massive hedge. It had grown to 6ft wide and was taking up half the pavement! It's now pretty much all bare wood, but is finally neat on sides and top.
                I then had a few minutes to put some vulnerable plants in the shed and greenhouse, but not had time to insulate the greenhouse yet, so I hope it will be ok until next weekend. :dunno:
                Anyone with experience of greenhouses and light frost able to advise?
                 
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                  Got some daffodil bulbs plants and the usual clearing up leaves and looking online for new seeds and ideas for next year!!
                   
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                    Planted out two roses :-)
                     
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                      If you have any fleece or even news papers to cover the plants with until you get chance to cover your tender plants they should be fine while the weekend:thumbsup:
                       
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                        More clearing and more weeding. Still trying to decide where new rose bed will go
                         
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                          Looked out the window.
                           
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