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Growing Chillies

Chillie Growers…Start Your Engines

March 20, 2010

Now that the New Year is upon us it is time to start thinking about the 2010 chillie growing season. Last year I made the mistake of planting my seeds too late, a mistake I am not going to make again this year.
Firstly I have been overwintering some of my plants in order to get [...]

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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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How To Ripen Chillies

October 6, 2009

A question we are getting asked all of the time at this time of year is how to speed up the ripening process that occurs naturally in your chillies.
In nature the two things that help your chilli peppers ripen are a constant warm temperature and long sunny days (lot of light). As summer fades away [...]

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