Chilli Growing (Merged Thread)

Davesnave

Also, on a side note - Corriander, do any of you have tips?
Mine seems to look lush and green and within 2 weeks its starts to turn into a flower, how long until it turns back to the green flat leaf?

Errr...it's the seeds that most people want! The leaves can be eaten, but as it is an annual, once it flowers it is on the way to seed production, and the next step is expiry!

Incidentally, it is said that not all people taste coriander leaves the same; for some they're definitely 'soapy.'

betterlife

hi, i was wondering if anyone preserves there chilli`s please, and how you do it and how long it keeps for thankyou.

Davesnave

betterlife wrote: »

hi, i was wondering if anyone preserves there chilli`s please, and how you do it and how long it keeps for thankyou.

Several recipies/ideas in this thread!

But you can just dry them & they will then keep for years.

Trying_really_hard

To those who said that patience was what I needed, you were right. I waited a little longer and found that my chilli's had started to shoot. Tiny little green shoots poking out the soil. :j I was so giddy.

Davesnave

Trying_really_hard wrote: »

To those who said that patience was what I needed, you were right. I waited a little longer and found that my chilli's had started to shoot. Tiny little green shoots poking out the soil. :j I was so giddy.

OK, Ok, calm down, that's what this growing thing is all about! It never stops being exciting, even when you've done it literally thousands of times (and I can only think of one other thing where that's also true!)

(Puts on Yorkshire accent) But if it's patience you're on about, how about growing trees from seed? I had these acer seeds which only took two winters before they finally germinated. Grew into lovely little plants too. However,despite putting them in the cold frame, not one survived the next winter. :mad: Oh, and there's hellebores - not too long to wait there; about 7 months to germination, but then almost three years to flower!

tlck9

freebo wrote: »

Put them somewhere warm to sprout & keep them well watered, should take 1-2 weeks, then transplant them. Use a fairly big pot (at least 6", as others have said, they grow fast).

All mine seem to produce very hot fruits, last years where too hot to use :eek:

I'm very late, but live in the south, so perhaps we have a better autumn than spring. I plan to try sowing some seeds.....so I have took the seeds from the chilli

what do i do now, by sprouting, does this mean in soil???? or in water???? or put them in a bag to heat up nd then sprout???

Sorry to ask daft questions, but I'm new to all this

Thanks in advance

stormbreaker

ZootHornRollo wrote: »

could anyone suggest a variety or two that could be grow outdoors in south east scotland (east lothian)?

i don't mind starting them off indoors, something i could put outside from about may/june would be good.

(although i'm a bit like Trying_really_hard and may just have a pop at it with some supermarket one on the window sill)

I am in East Lothian too!!! I purchased a chilli plant,2x pepper plants,2 x tomato plants and a cucumber plant from Lidls. All are outside and all except the cucumber are growing albeit slowly! Sorry but I don't know what the variety is. The cucumber was growing great guns with lots of small cucumbers, was fine one day and died the next. As I am extremely inexperienced at this lark I don't know what happened to it.

Trying_really_hard

I now have 7, yes 7, chilli plants which have sprouted (which is funny as I can only remember planting 6 seeds :rolleyes: ).

Very impressed - if only I knew what sort they were. I shall have to wait and see. :j

Ancalime

Hi All
we started growing our first chilli's this year on our window sills and have had some sucess we finaly have flowers on the ones that survived the repoting. However we woke up on Friday to find catipillars attacking them :eek:

My OH kindly washed them off with some warm soapy water but they were back the next day and agin this morning. How do I get rid of the little blighters and if I do will the plants survive as some of the leaves are full of little holes.

any advice would be appreciated as we were so excited about having our own chilli's.

TIA

thelurch

I am growing chillis seriously for the 1st time this year, I grow all sorts of fruit and veg but love really hot food so thought growing hot chillis was ideal.

I also added 2 more 8'x6' greenhouses late last year so to go with my 41 tomato plants I have about 40 chilli plants.

They range from fresno and jalapeno to Bhut Jolokia and Dorset Naga.

All are flowering and fresnos have lots of large chillis on, I have about 8 plants on windowsills indoors and my parents thought they were cannabis :eek:

I soon realised about helping the polination of the chilis inside the house and have a paintbrush on every windowsill.

Im looking forward to trying a Dorset Naga and a Bhut Jolokia as they are he hottest in the world and I got the seeds from the Chilli Fiesta at West Dean College in West sussex last year. They had little bits of the raw chilli to taste and it was a little warm!