Pepper Pricking Problem!

Primrose

My chillis & peppers start off being individually sown in 3 inch pots. When they're about five inches high I transplant them singly into their final pots which are a minimum of 8 inches, and preferably 10 inches.

lightisfading

I really wouldn't let 3 or 4 plants grow together til you put them outside. They will be competing for space and it will be nearly impossible to seperate them without damaging the roots. Plus you'd be surprised how big they are before it's time for them to go outside!

At the first potting up i usually use just small pots, maybe the size of those plastic cups you get from coffee machines, one plant per pot, and go up as needed. As a rule of thumb i double the pot size each time i pot them up, til they're ready to go outside. Morrisons buckets are great for peppers, just remember to punch holes in the bottom!

For small pots, do you have a wilkinsons or something like that? 50p a pot seems very steep, for small ones i can usually find 8 or 10 for £1-1.50. Hell, you could get some asda smartprice yoghurts for 8p each, eat the yoghurt and keep the pots Ask on freecycle anyway theres always someone on there with too many

Davesnave

lightisfading wrote: »

I really wouldn't let 3 or 4 plants grow together til you put them outside. They will be competing for space and it will be nearly impossible to seperate them without damaging the roots. Plus you'd be surprised how big they are before it's time for them to go outside!

No neither would I, but that's not what I meant to imply. Frost-free space is tight at the moment, and will be for another month or so. For people who have a lot of peppers, it makes sense to keep them 4 to a pot for the first month to six weeks.

Tonight we're forecast a frost, so all my capsicums are out of the conservatory & in the kitchen, as are my toms, just as they have been for some weeks, on and off. Now, as there happen to be well over two hundred.....:eek:

Enough said!

Furny

LIGHTISFADING- Thanks. I actually did buy a 6 pk of muller yogs today (half price in Lidl) persuaded my son he'd like them just so i could have the pots! naughty mummy! so it's funny you mentioned that!.
Have just joined freecycle so hoping to get some pots but have to offer an item up first then i can post, if all else fails it will be E-Bay as i'm not paying my local shops price for them.
How many pepper plants would you put in a Morrisons container just 1 ?

DAVESNAVE- Sorry if it looked like i misunderstood what you said!.
Over 100 peppers! WOW!!!!!

laurel7172

Our local Notcutts has a big box of pots outside where people can drop off their used pots/help themselves for nothing...

Davesnave

Furny wrote: »

How many pepper plants would you put in a Morrisons container just 1 ?
Yes, most types need plenty of space and feed. I have some smaller ones that go in 2 or 3 litre pots, but with the majority, you can hardly give them too much room once they are growing away well.
DAVESNAVE- Sorry if it looked like i misunderstood what you said!.
Over 100 peppers! WOW!!!!!

It wasn't you that misunderstood. I have a lot of peppers and tomato plants etc because I sell them, but I'm in a new place without my usual kit, like a heated bench, so I understand what it is like for the ordinary grower, moving baby plants about at this time of year!