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End of season jobs

November 20, 2011

It’s mid November, the nights have drawn in and winter it seems is well and truly with us. As we wonder if those last few pods will ripen there are a few jobs that we can be getting on with in order to help prepare for a great year of chilli growing next year…
Harvets the [...]

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Making Compost – A Comprehensive Guide

October 15, 2011

Its getting to that time of year when plants start dying back and the garden starts to look a bit scruffy. I tend to grow a lot of potted plants, not just chillies so at this time of the year I have large quantities of dead plants, root balls and other garden waste to dispose [...]

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Eating Bhut Jolokia

August 11, 2011

It’s amazing what some people will do to get on youtube. Last night i stumbled onto loads of videos of people’s reactions after eating hot chilli peppers. Some of the reactions are hilarious…i thought I’d post a few….
This one is great – two girls both sit down to eat a Bhut Jolokia (the worlds hottest [...]

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Naga Lotta Growth

August 6, 2011

It’s amazing what you find at the back of the greenhouse sometimes. Yesterday I was rooting round trying to find the labels that i dropped down the back of the staging and low and behold there were two naga chilli plants i’d fogotten about months ago!

Amazingly the plants were still alive despite not having been [...]

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Treat Em Mean & Keep Em Keen

August 3, 2011

Back in April I talked about how some Super Chilli F1 seedling got badly scorched after I left the propagator they were in on a sunny windowsill on a particularly hot day. Seedlings that are so small are incredibly susceptible to a change in their environment as i found out to my cost.

As you can [...]

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Growing Chillies in the Glasshouse

August 3, 2011

Now we all know that chillies like a little bit of warmth to start that first germination process – seeds can be sown in March indoors to start them off – but if you have a glasshouse the seeds can be sown in pots that are positioned right where you want the plants to grow. [...]

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Hey it’s Chilly Out There

August 3, 2011

Growing chillies continues to grow in popularity and as a result there is an ever increasing number of varieties of chilli seeds available, some of which are slower to grow than others. One aspect of growing slower varieties that some growers find quite difficult is the propagation of the seeds. By maximizing germination rates and [...]

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Are my chilli seedlings leggy?

June 3, 2011

Following on from my last post here is another reader question (From James) regarding leggy chilli seedlings and grow lights.
Question
I started some some plants from seed. They took a couple weeks to germinate but they finally came up. the sun is too hot outside for the little seedlings so I put them under a grow [...]

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Should I pinch out the flowers on my chilli plant?

May 26, 2011

We receive so many questions from eager chilli growers we thought it is a shame to waste all of the replies we send back. So….from now on we’ll start posting questions sent in by readers along with the replies we send back. Hopefully by doing this we’ll share the love a bit and help other [...]

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Avoiding Aphids – My 4 Point Plan

May 2, 2011

Over the last few years of growing chillies by far the most common pest my plants have faced have been aphids. Over the last few years I’ve posted about how to treat an aphid infestation so this year i thought it was about time i was a bit more proactive and attempted to take preventative [...]

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