Apache over winters very well I normally cut mine right down... I never grow one chilli plant lol normally about 125 so!!!! jalepeno have a long (90-120) fruiting period so! Also with chillis and no seed sometimes the f1 varieties are sterile. Flowe. Drop could be many things but is normally lack of pollination as I grow all mine outside this is not anything I encounter. It can also be if they are over fed with too high a potassium feed.... Although it's ok I never feed with tomato feed as it doesn't give them what they want ... Chilli focus is the best... Also square pots I have said to all don't know why or the science behind it but they do better in square pots..... zoomer do you smoke? Chillli plants can be affected by nicotine I will look up the article now .....
Over the last few years I've grown Superchilli (Thai style chili) with amazing harvests. 3 plants in a 15L pot against a S. wall and I've had hundreds of chilli's off them. Jalapenos also work well, but get fewer but much bigger chilli's with great flavour.
I treat them like tomatoes, no feed until the flowers appear(as said above) then follow the same sort of feed schedule as for the toms. I've had better results in a greenhouse with the jalapenos, but suprchilli is really good on a S wall
Good luck!
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
We sow our seeds at the end of December and put into a propagator under lights overnight. Our plants are about 8 inches tall and will be going into a heated greenhouse, along with the chilli plants we cut down to sticks and these are already producing leaves and in some cases, flowers.
The only downside is that the greenhouse gets packed with plants that are taller than me (5ft 3), and I have to pick them as my other half is colour blind.
We also use chilli focus and also something that my husband puts in the water for the plants called Superthrive, literally just a drop and it really helps with the growth. We also pollinate the chillis with a small brush, and leaving the greenhouse door open, we get bees in there too.
Verdun I recommend you visit south devon chillie farm website and get a few plants off that! it depends what you want ... Decorative, hot, mild, long, unusual?
Edd they are a good cropper but i tend to find they are not as hot over here have you tried cherry bomb? It has the sweet/ hot tang and is spectacular and tasty with a thick flesh ideal for pickling but is a tall (2ft) plant
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Apache over winters very well I normally cut mine right down... I never grow one chilli plant lol normally about 125 so!!!! jalepeno have a long (90-120) fruiting period so! Also with chillis and no seed sometimes the f1 varieties are sterile. Flowe. Drop could be many things but is normally lack of pollination as I grow all mine outside this is not anything I encounter. It can also be if they are over fed with too high a potassium feed.... Although it's ok I never feed with tomato feed as it doesn't give them what they want ... Chilli focus is the best... Also square pots I have said to all don't know why or the science behind it but they do better in square pots..... zoomer do you smoke? Chillli plants can be affected by nicotine I will look up the article now .....
Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV): is a highly contagious and persistent disease caused by the tobacco of cigarettes. It spreads mechanically, by touching infected hands or instruments from plants. The virus manifests itself in the form of yellow or green spots on the leaves of the plant. It often presents itself on the basis of deformation or curling of the leaf. The destruction of the chloroplasts and the increased activity of enzymes regulating the blocking photosynthesis and plant growth in consequence provoke the collapse.....
Over the last few years I've grown Superchilli (Thai style chili) with amazing harvests.
3 plants in a 15L pot against a S. wall and I've had hundreds of chilli's off them.
Jalapenos also work well, but get fewer but much bigger chilli's with great flavour.
I treat them like tomatoes, no feed until the flowers appear(as said above) then follow the same sort of feed schedule as for the toms.
I've had better results in a greenhouse with the jalapenos, but suprchilli is really good on a S wall
Good luck!
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Crickey Pete! That's an amazing crop
SD I only smoke when I'm angry
Lol Pete great crop super chillie is a great cropper for outside growing so is Thai dragon that makes a lovely patio pot chillie
Saying that I think this is firecracker with cherry bombs in the back.... So hot heads what are you planting this year? A few nagas?
We sow our seeds at the end of December and put into a propagator under lights overnight. Our plants are about 8 inches tall and will be going into a heated greenhouse, along with the chilli plants we cut down to sticks and these are already producing leaves and in some cases, flowers.
The only downside is that the greenhouse gets packed with plants that are taller than me (5ft 3), and I have to pick them as my other half is colour blind.
We also use chilli focus and also something that my husband puts in the water for the plants called Superthrive, literally just a drop and it really helps with the growth. We also pollinate the chillis with a small brush, and leaving the greenhouse door open, we get bees in there too.
Verdun I recommend you visit south devon chillie farm website and get a few plants off that! it depends what you want ... Decorative, hot, mild, long, unusual?
Edd they are a good cropper but i tend to find they are not as hot over here have you tried cherry bomb? It has the sweet/ hot tang and is spectacular and tasty with a thick flesh ideal for pickling but is a tall (2ft) plant