Chilli Growing (Merged Thread)

nodwah

That sound like a good sauce thanks.

After I'd chopped my chilli ( the bigger one!) my finger tips were nipping all day long and I'd put one wee piece about 1mm sq in my mouth and it was WAH!
that's T&Ms "Flaming Hot" variety.

i used it to make guacamole using some whoopsie avocados - nice

Jake'sGran

I grew six or seven plants for my son this year. He regularly makes veg curries and things. I used all different types of seed including the one that can look very pretty as a pot plant where all the chillies change colour over time. A lot of the seed was sent to me by the lovely people on Allotments4All where they have a swop shop. In most cases I sent other seeds in exchange. My son now has all the chillies and has frozen a lot of them. He says they are fine just to freeze as they are. With the poor light and lack of sunshine your chillies will not get much bigger now and I would take them all off.

tlck9

hi there

I cheated this year and bought a 2 foot high chilli plant from a chilli farm, purely my chilli plants had not created a single chilli

anyway, I placed it near my patio door for light as I do not have a sun facing window....it started to look well not well so I've moved it to the windowsill thinking that perhaps it was not liking the draught

It is a wonderful plant will quite a number of chillies on,

I also fed it with an all purpose liquid feed, as I though perhaps it needed it...

Anyway my chillis look like they are shrivelling up

so please help I do not want to lose the plant or the chillis what can I do

Primrose

My personal experience is that chilli plants don't really thrive indoors in the winter in this country. Could you possibly have over-watered them which might be causing the roots to rot?. Or perhaps at a time when the plant is naturally slipping back because of lower light conditions and colder temperatures , giving it a liquid feed is forcing it to try and grow against its natural instincts? You may have to be prepared to lose the current chillis, but if you can let the compost dry out a little and prune the plant back quite severely, it should resprout again when the weather gets warmer again. Meanwhile you can always freeze the existing chillis in their current state so you don't lose them.