northernhord
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I,m growing rainbow chilli's again this year cos the seeds have a great rate of germination, however due to the shitey rainy piss down weather the plants are only about 7 inches high, thank fuck for plastic greenhouses.
How's everyone's chillis doing?
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Stig
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rutabowa said:
ours are the same, we can't see out of the windows any more.I've had the first few chillis off the biggest ones, but the rest are just starting to flower now.
When you move you can always cut them down a bit, it won't kill them.
link about pruning here
and here is a whole forum about growing chillis
northernhord
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^ Stig, best chilli grower in auld Londinium
Stig
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SubZeroCat said:
Yep, you need to help pollinate the flowers, although they may be ok on their own, most of ours seem to be ok when we forget about them.
you have to poke the flowers with something, like a paintbrush, or just your finger, and poke some other flowers, to spread the pollen about.
Couple of possibly helpful threads on the amazing chilli forum I just found, below. (I'm going to be bookmarking this site, oh yes.
)http://chillisgalore.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4073
http://chillisgalore.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3992
Thanks Stig!
Stig
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Hope you lot are re-potting your chillis by the way. I've done ours two or three times now. Some of them are in pots bigger than buckets.
you can get little bags of compost form pound shops and similar, or just nick some from your local verge at midnight (make sure you are wearing a balaclava and black&white stripey top)
you can get little bags of compost form pound shops and similar, or just nick some from your local verge at midnight (make sure you are wearing a balaclava and black&white stripey top)
Stig said:
No I haven't repotted mine
It's not that big...but there's a garden centre-y thing in Herne Hill I can go to to get a bigger pot and some compost so I'll do that this weekend.
One of the leaves has been partly eaten by summat - should I just snip it off?
Stig
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SubZeroCat said:No I haven't repotted mine
It's not that big...but there's a garden centre-y thing in Herne Hill I can go to to get a bigger pot and some compost so I'll do that this weekend.
One of the leaves has been partly eaten by summat - should I just snip it off?
Yeah, can do, i probably would. It won't do it any harm.
Cool, thanks Dr Stig
Spion
I hear ya
Did OK with the chillis in the end. In fact, they're still growing and it's not dropping below 15/16 degrees where they are.
Should get a good crop of joes long, cayenne, apache, a big Peruvian type I got from my allotments' community scheme. The only slight disapppointment is the habaneros, as some aren't seemingly getting to full size
Joe's Long
Peruvian
Cayenne
Should get a good crop of joes long, cayenne, apache, a big Peruvian type I got from my allotments' community scheme. The only slight disapppointment is the habaneros, as some aren't seemingly getting to full size
Joe's Long
Peruvian
Cayenne
crustychick
doo-woop-de-doo
they look yummy! looking forward to growing some next year
heinous seamus
Perfect in an empty room
Nice one. I only had one successful plant, but it's still growing chillies yet!
Stig
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Still got 6 plants alive indoors and 6 outdoors, still growing chillis!
There are a lot now that might not ever go red though, and there are no more flowers.
The cats killed one in the middle of the night, well, pruned it very heavily, at least. It'll survive, but it's a third of it's original size. *shakes fist*
There are a lot now that might not ever go red though, and there are no more flowers.
The cats killed one in the middle of the night, well, pruned it very heavily, at least. It'll survive, but it's a third of it's original size. *shakes fist*
Spion
I hear ya
Cool. I think if it's warm enough and they're getting as much light as they can they'll keep going, I think. The room I had mine in is pretty cold and was getting colder and I think they were coming to a haltsojourner said:
Well, against the odds, I have chillis growing on my indoor plant!!
Spion said:Just for the sake of completeness, here's the harvest for this year. This lot will be a jar or two of sauce before too long
wow, that is a wonderous mound of chillies!
i want to grow some next yearhow are you planning on making it into sauce? i tried to make some chilli sauce once by just putting a load of chillis in a bottle of olive oil with some sugar but it didn't turn out so great, and i think i read somewhere that you can get botulism or something doing that?!
Spion
I hear ya
I've looked at a few rcipes on the net and got the general idea - I'm going to dry them out and then chop em up and steep em in cider vinegar. You can just stop at that, although some recipes seem to add spices, onion, fruit even.dwenfish said:
EG: http://www.hotsauceblog.com/hotsaucearchives/home-style-inner-beauty-hot-sauce-recipe/
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