With a long run of sunny, warm weather, my chilli plants have progressed very well. Recently the 3 older plants that I keep on my windowsill have been dropping their flowers. I looked up for solutions to this problem. I had either been over watering them or the flowers were not being pollinated. To rectify this problem I have reduced the frequency of my watering and have been using a cotton bud to pollinate the flowers. Which ever was the correct solution, all 3 chilli plants now have growing fruits.
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| I know it is not the best picture but my camera isn't very good. It is supposed to show a chilli growing on my plant. If you have perfect eye sight like I do, you might be able to see it :D |
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I have an open flower on my Banana Pepper plant and two open flowers on my Habanero plant. I have read that growing Habanero chillies in the UK is difficult because of the cool temperatures. I guess I will have to see what happens with these flowers. My Banana Pepper plant which now lives in the kitchen looks as though a fruit may be growing out of the flower.
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| Habanero Flower |
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| Banana Pepper plant with flower |
The other plants on my windowsill are doing well. My newest plant; the Apache, is doing very well. It looks like a mini version of my Habanero plant. It has produced many buds. Some of these buds have began to drop down, similar to what happened to the Habanero's buds before they flowered.
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| Apache (far right) next to Habanero. |
Next to my Habanero plant (see photo above) is a pot containing 3 Tabasco plants. They have been showing very strong growth and are in some need of re-potting. I have currently ran out of compost. I have a great need to re-pot a number of plants.
On of the other side of my windowsill are 6 other varieties. I have 2 plants each of Bulgarian Carrot and Santa Fe Grande. I also have an Anaheim, a Hungarian Hot Wax, a Jalapeno and 2 Demon Chilli plants. All of these plants are progressing nicely. However the Anaheim does sometimes struggle with the warm temperatures. In the future I may need to move this plant to another part of the house.
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| Anaheim (far left) next to Jalapeno. |
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| Santa Fe Grande (right, I think), Hungarian Hot Wax (top centre), Demon (bottom centre) and Bulgarian Carrot (left, i think) |
I have 5 Bell pepper plants in the kitchen. They seem to prefer the cooler, less intense conditions. I believe that a few of them may not be far off producing buds.
All of my plants in the greenhouse are developing at a slightly slower rate due to the less sunlight they receive plus the cool temperatures at night. However I do feel confident that some of them will produce fruit. Some of them do need re-potting which will happen when I get round to purchasing the compost (might happen tomorrow).
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| All my greenhouse plants. Lots of different varieties including Bell, Demon, Jalapeno, Tabasco, Bulgarian Carrot and Santa Fe Grande. (There is also a Tomato plant) |
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