I doubt they'd be OK in an unheated undercover situation.
I lost a second sowing that were just at the cotyledon stage when I left them in the unheated greenhouse. The slightly older ones with 2 sets of true leaves in a different tray survived. I assume it was the frost and not daytime scorching or dehydration.
Frank your brave leaving them in an unheated green house at cotyledon stage ...... I bought mine in last night and left the overwintered ones out they are still fine this morning but I'm ramping the heater up for tonight
I grow Apaches and Joe's Long (both quite hot but not overly-so. I sow mid-March and keep them indoors on a sunny windowsill until about mid-April. Then they go in large pots in a cold greenhouse. Every year I get millions of fantastic chillies and I never lose a plant! I just throw most that I pick into a plastic tub and freeze them and they are just as good all winter as they were fresh. The Apaches I use in most spicy recipes but the Joe's Long are good roasted in oil.
Happens lol... Apache is such a great cropper and I like a joes long..... U should give the space chillies a go!!!! I have some seeds for hj10 - 4 and 9 if you would like some lol... I start growing in November hydroponically and with t5 lights and red and blue led's. My plants are flowering already but being sniped to not let them yet. I have to final pot yet and then bombard with nutrients lol
I have black hungarian flowering, two small pods forming on one, from Real Seeds. I had some last year from another supplier, very mild, but delicious in pasta sauces, very tasty, and productive, and some survived outside. Best with some protection though. I have some orange habanero and tobasco, with loads of leaves, and side shoots, but no flowers yet. The Rocoto which is between 7 and 10 years old is huge, but no flowers forming. I will not feed again till I see buds forming. The leaves have a strong almost tomato like smell. I bought a mild Capsicum chinense plant from Waitrose, out of curiosity.
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I doubt they'd be OK in an unheated undercover situation.
I lost a second sowing that were just at the cotyledon stage when I left them in the unheated greenhouse. The slightly older ones with 2 sets of true leaves in a different tray survived. I assume it was the frost and not daytime scorching or dehydration.
think they might have to come into the conservatory for a while
I grow Apaches and Joe's Long (both quite hot but not overly-so. I sow mid-March and keep them indoors on a sunny windowsill until about mid-April. Then they go in large pots in a cold greenhouse. Every year I get millions of fantastic chillies and I never lose a plant! I just throw most that I pick into a plastic tub and freeze them and they are just as good all winter as they were fresh. The Apaches I use in most spicy recipes but the Joe's Long are good roasted in oil.
Something cropped up and I got home extremely late, so never got them indoors in time.
I have black hungarian flowering, two small pods forming on one, from Real Seeds. I had some last year from another supplier, very mild, but delicious in pasta sauces, very tasty, and productive, and some survived outside. Best with some protection though. I have some orange habanero and tobasco, with loads of leaves, and side shoots, but no flowers yet. The Rocoto which is between 7 and 10 years old is huge, but no flowers forming. I will not feed again till I see buds forming. The leaves have a strong almost tomato like smell. I bought a mild Capsicum chinense plant from Waitrose, out of curiosity.
I can see chillies can become a bit addictive.
I've put mine back on the heated bench with the thermostat set at 20C overnight. Is that too hot? not hot enough , or about right?
I take the lid off during the day as it gets hot in the tunnel.
They're about 4 / 5 pairs of leaves and have tiny side shoots appearing.
Is there anything I'm doing wrong, or should change?
checked max min thermometer at ground level , it got down to 7C last night in tunnel.