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Overwintering

Overwintering Chillies – Update 3

March 20, 2010
Overwintering Failure

Disaster has struck my efforts to overwinter a number of chilli plants.
Before going away for a 3 week holiday in the new year I entrusted my overwintering plants top my fathers care as I didn’t want to leave them unwatered for about 3 and a half weeks. At my dads they were moved to a [...]

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Overwintering Chillies – Update 2

January 7, 2010

Back in mid October I prepared my chilli plants for overwintering.  I chose 9 plants in total; 2 varieties of habanero, 1 birds eye, 1 apache, 1 Bulgarian Carrot and 1 Super Chilli F1. They were all chopped back so that only about 5 inches of the stem remained and they were moved inside onto [...]

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Overwintering Chillies – Update 1

November 9, 2009

Well it has been almost a month since i brought my chilli plants inside to overwinter them. As you can see from the photographs below they have burst back into life since i chopped them back in the middles of October.
There are two main reasons the plants have sprung back to life:

Heat: The plants have [...]

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Preparing To Over Winter Chillies

October 11, 2009

Now that it looks like winter is fast approaching, i thought it was about time i started preparing some of my plants for the winter. As mentioned in our over wintering chillies article most chillies are not annuals as most people think. By taking your chilli plants you can get a massive head start on [...]

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