Curry Recipes Online

Beginners Guide => Grow Your Own Spices and Herbs => Topic started by: sue28 on July 17, 2014, 09:35 AM

Title: Growing chilies in a greenhouse.
Post by: sue28 on July 17, 2014, 09:35 AM
I have bought a greenhouse to grow chilies in, do i need to put anything on the in side i.e some sort of diffusion material so they don't get the full sun?
Title: Re: Growing chilies in a greenhouse.
Post by: Peripatetic Phil on July 17, 2014, 12:39 PM
I have bought a greenhouse to grow chilies in, do i need to put anything on the in side i.e some sort of diffusion material so they don't get the full sun?

Crikey -- you can buy an awful lot of chillies for the
Title: Re: Growing chilies in a greenhouse.
Post by: noble ox on July 17, 2014, 03:31 PM
Hi Sue
 It depends on where you live give a rough idea and more help will follow
Title: Re: Growing chilies in a greenhouse.
Post by: Onions on July 17, 2014, 03:41 PM
Ha ha! You're after a detailed map ;) :D   !!!
Title: Re: Growing chilies in a greenhouse.
Post by: haldi on July 17, 2014, 07:23 PM
I have bought a greenhouse to grow chilies in, do i need to put anything on the in side i.e some sort of diffusion material so they don't get the full sun?
You're alittle late this year for chillie growing, unless you can buy some plants well on there way
You should start the seeds off in April/May depending on the variety
I normally get the seeds going on an indoor window sill then when they have been sprouted for a couple of weeks, I move them to a greenhouse
Most chillie plants  will stand a greenhouse heat as long as they dont dry out
Mine are starting to be ready to harvest, picking chillies may carry on for at least another month
If left, some chillies turn from green to red
Title: Re: Growing chilies in a greenhouse.
Post by: mr.mojorisin on July 17, 2014, 09:36 PM
in my limited experience, I had fruit on the plants and always picked them when green and left them approx 2-3 days then they turned red.

for some reason they never turned red on the plant, no matter how long i left them ????
Title: Re: Growing chilies in a greenhouse.
Post by: sue28 on July 18, 2014, 09:41 AM
Thanks for the replies guys x
Title: Re: Growing chilies in a greenhouse.
Post by: nursebetty on May 26, 2015, 01:36 PM
Last Year I grew Chillies on my kitchen windowsill and only got a small bit from a red one and my god so hot and it took hours for the pain to go.
Never grown them since
Title: Re: Growing chilies in a greenhouse.
Post by: Ghoulie on July 07, 2015, 10:22 PM
Got 5x Apache chilli plants from DT Brown online - delivered 5th May.  One was obviously stronger than rest and is already flowering with chillies forming.  All are in various stages of growing with flower buds showing just on rest.  All have been treated in same way.  One plant is perfect  - other 4 are showing yellowy curled leaves in varying quantities - but will produce chillies.
Title: Re: Growing chilies in a greenhouse.
Post by: Ghoulie on August 19, 2015, 05:02 PM
Yellow / curled leaves on 4x plants on closer inspection had some kind of bug on them on underside - very tiny.  Cut the leaves off and rubbed out bugs I could see.  Strange how one plant completely unaffected.  All now growing strongly and producing chillies - kept outside so far.
Title: Re: Growing chilies in a greenhouse.
Post by: Madrasandy on August 19, 2015, 09:06 PM
Aphids
Title: Re: Growing chilies in a greenhouse.
Post by: Ghoulie on August 20, 2015, 03:56 PM
looked too small to be aphids - you could barely see them.
Title: Re: Growing chilies in a greenhouse.
Post by: DalPuri on August 20, 2015, 04:15 PM
Spider mites
Title: Re: Growing chilies in a greenhouse.
Post by: mickdabass on August 21, 2015, 07:49 AM
or baby aphids
Title: Re: Growing chilies in a greenhouse.
Post by: Ghoulie on August 28, 2015, 11:45 AM
Cheers DalPuri - looking up on spider mites shows that to be likely culprit.  Many thanks for that info.
Title: Re: Growing chilies in a greenhouse.
Post by: Ghoulie on September 03, 2015, 03:04 PM
Just put all 5x chilli plants inside the conservatory - gone cold today with very cold at night forecast.

All 5x Apache plants growing / fruiting well