The Chilli King Flickr Group

by The Chilli King on July 14, 2010

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We are always keen to try and improve the site and welcome any feedback from our readers. Many people have been asking recently if it is possible to have an area of the site to share pictures or photos of their plants to help diagnose disease, identify pests or just plain show off their peppers!

As a result i’ve started a group on the brilliant photo sharing site flickr. You can find it here: Flickr: The Chilli King Group

If you don’t know about it, flickr is a site used primarily by photographers (amongst others) to upload, backup, organize and share photographs as well as having discussions about their pictures.

Being an avid amateur photographer I started using the site about a year ago to upload some of my best photos. The thing I like about flickr is it lets users create groups to share their pictures into a collective pool and have discussions about them. Hopefully our readers can use the group to maintain some of the discussion and advise around the photos posted.

Here are some ideas for the sort of pictures it would be good to see from everyone;

  • Your growing set up
  • You chilli harvest
  • Unidentified Pests
  • Potential diseases

We’ve created our own Chilli King Group so that our readers can pool your chilli pictures together. You can learn more about how groups on flickr work here.

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Post Apocalypse Peppers

by The Chilli King on July 13, 2010

It is always going to see chillies in the news. The BBC is running a story today about a delegation of 7 US Senators that have traveled to the Arctic Archipelago to bury chilli seeds 500 feet under a mountain.

Post Apocalypse Peppersimage by Pierre J.

The Global Crop Diversity Trust runs a facility in the Arctic that aims to store a huge library of seed from over half a million of the worlds crops. The idea being that should a huge natural (or man made) disaster strike and decimate the US’s plant population.

The US Department of Agriculture has produced the seeds which will be stored 500 feet under the mountain and preserved at at -18C (-0.4F). You can checkout the the full story here.

I’ve not heard of two of the varieties mentioned in the article (Wenk’s Yellow Hots & San Juan Tsil from New Mexico) but it would be good to know some more about why they chose these varieties. Let us know in the comments below if you have tried either of these varieties.

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Natural Aphid Control

July 1, 2010
Natural Aphid Control

Almost exactly one year on from my last battle and the aphids are back. I was actually getting excited that small flower buds are starting to form on most of my plants when I noticed the familiar sight of lots of tiny green monsters gathering around the new growth shoots at the tops of the [...]

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The Chilli House

June 29, 2010
The Chilli House

I’ve mentioned a few times that i’ve recently moved house. In my old place I only had a small yeard, surrounded by tall houses and a large tree which meant that it was shaded for most of the day. As a result the growth rates of my chillies was slow and I relied on gro [...]

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Chilli Growing Update

June 24, 2010
Chilli Plant - Growing Update

It’s been a few weeks since I last posed and update on my chillies. After re-potting last time (to 6″ pots) in mid May many of the plants were suffering from drooping leaves. I put this down to a combination of hot daytime temperatures and the shock from re-potting. The Cayenne’s are all now [...]

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Potting on Chillies: Does Pot Size Matter?

June 21, 2010
Chilli Plant Pot Size Experiment

We’ve had a lot of questions from readers about if and when they should pot on their chilli plants and what pot sizes to use. This is a hard question to answer as much will depend on the stage of development of your plants and the condition they are grown in.
Many of our readers seem [...]

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Popular Chilli Growing Accessories

June 14, 2010
Popular Chilli Plant Growing Accessories

Now that the chilli growing season is well under way and we are all worrying about our young plants I thought i’d draw together a list of some of the accessories I have found useful for getting me through this next stage in the season.

Chilli Focus Pepper Plant food – This is the only plant [...]

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Drooping Chilli Plant Leaves

June 4, 2010
Drooping Chilli Plant Leaves

Last week I came back form work and found that virtually all of my chilli plants leaves were drooping. This can’t have been due to lack of light as the weather has been gloriously sunny recently.

Potential Causes of Drooping Leaves
1. Excess heat
The plants have been spending their days in a conservatory and with the very [...]

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June Reader Growing Update: Gordzilla

June 3, 2010
June's Reader Growing Update: Gordzilla!

We’ve been getting so many great comments and discussion from some of our regular readers we thought it would be good to get to know some of them better. Each month we’ll be inviting a reader to write a guest post and answer a few questions, sharing some of their tips and advice with fellow [...]

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Chilli Plants Rapid Growth

May 27, 2010
Repotted Chilli Plants

Having moved house 3 weeks ago i now have a conservatory/summerhouse that I am able to use as a chilli house. At my previous place the garden was very small and for the most part of the day, shaded. While I expected the extra heat and light of a conservatory to help speed up growth [...]

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