Topic: CHILLI GROW 2016

[Ghoulie]

All 7 of my good germinators have 2ndry leaf growth now - but spindly white stems still.  Late sprouter struggling - but will keep it going to see if it gets there eventually.

Putting them onto sunny windowsill in the day when it applies.

[Ghoulie]

Spindly white stems now turning greener after daily exposure to sunny windowsill.

[Ghoulie]

Late sprouter died off ans I've cocked up 2 more when transferring to a larger pot when pricking out from the look of 'em - plus the dreaded spider mite (must be in the soil?) attacking one.

[Ghoulie]

sprayed the plants with bug spray to stop the spider mites and it looks like 3x have definitely been badly affected by the spray - bad move on my part.

Now down to 4 plants

[Ghoulie]

bug spray done for 2x more.

Now down to 2x plants !!  My fingers not as green as I thought.  Maybe that's why they sell you 10x seeds

[Ghoulie]

Bought 3x Basket of Fire chilli plants to make up for my losses of my own from seed Super Chillis.  1x of these seem to wither fairly quickly after receipt - replaced by co. foc with a not so clever looking plant which turned out to be their last when I mentioned it didn't look too good.

While I was waiting for this replacement plant to be delivered, my wife commented she thought the other 2 Basket of Fire chilli plants had been overwatered by me - water was coming from the pot base.  Soon after, these 2 plants also appeared to wither and die off.  The replacement when it arrived staggered on and seemed to get better with time.

I went away for a while and left all my plants outside - and boy did it rain while I was away for 5 days.  Fearing the worst, I was amazed to see all the plants thriving and looking really good - albeit all of them thoroughly saturated.

This got me thinking about my 2 'overwatered?' withered died off plants - was it chemicals in the tap water I had been using that killed them off - chlorine?  The saturated with rainwater plants have never looked better.

I will only be using rainwater from now on - or at a pinch, tap water that has been boiled to drive off chlorine.

Just my thoughts - everything else has been the same.

[Ghoulie]

Update - of all my efforts with the Super Chilli seeds sown - 10x - 2x are still going OK and showing signs of flowering.  The one surviving Basket of Fire from the 3x plants that was the replacement is likewise.  It's been a long drag - but a good learning curve.

[Ghoulie]

Getting excellent chillies off the 1x Basket of Fire & 2x Super Chillies.  3x Apaches fruiting well too (gave 1x Apache away).

[Ghoulie]

Very cold nights now with us up norf - chilli plants moved into conservatory to be safe.

[tempest63]

It's getting cold down south. Just cropped our scotch bonnets which have done extremely well this year. Used some fresh and strung the rest to hang up and dry