Saturday, 9 April 2011

Nice weather = good chilli growing weather

This nice weather had given my chilli and pepper plants a chance to grow and develop. The poly-tunnel type construction in the greenhouse proved too hot for the Bell Pepper plants. They have been moved out. Two pots are now on my windowsill and the other twelve pots are in my parents room. I have also moved the pot named as "Miscellaneous Chillies". This is the pot with the seeds of unknown origin that I randomly planted. In this pot there are 3 plants.
Miscellaneous Chillies
2x Bell Pepper plant
4x Bell Pepper plants (2 strong 2 weak)

Both my Banana Pepper and Habanero Chilli plants have shown good growth in this beautiful weather. Although the Banana Pepper is taller, the Habanero is a much bushier plant. Neither are showing any buds yet but it is still early days. I am very encouraged with their progress.


Habanero Chilli
Banana Pepper



















My 5 different varieties of chillies are also showing promise. The Jalapeno seeds that were the first to germinate are doing the best. I have 4 strong Jalapeno seedlings which aren't far away from re-potting. The Hungarian Hot Wax has been struggling. I have only 1 seedling which was very weak but has grown in strength during this lovely weather. Both the Tabasco and Demon Red have lots of small seedlings which are growing at a smaller pace. Tabasco has 4 seedlings, while Demon Red has 6. The single Anaheim seedlings have been doing well. However in my clumsiness i have broken one of the leaves while moving the Banana Pepper. I do not think this will be a fatal incident and do anticipate the plant to be fine.

Hungarian (Top), Anaheim (Left) and Tabasco (right)
Jalapeno
Demon Red






My 3 older plants which are on my windowsill are doing very well. My strongest one has 4 open flowers which look like will bare fruit. It also has many other buds. The smaller of the 3 also has 2 open flowers and many other buds. The other plant has many buds but no open flowers.

No flowers
Small plant with 2 flowers
4 flowers/fruits
Planted some more Jalapeno seeds. My lovely girlfriend gave me a propagator and Jalapeno seeds; a wonderful early Easter present. I will be keeping these seeds in the greenhouse for the time being.
Me and my new chilli merchandise
And finally there has been some activity in the pot where I made the mistake with in my last post. Yesterday I found a little growth popping through the soil. This seedling has been joined by 3 others today. I am still unsure about the variety of chilli.

Small seedlings plus the Bell Pepper seedling (top left)

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