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Growing Chillies

Grow Lights on the Cheap

March 28, 2011

Now that some of my chilli seeds have germinated my main aim is to get as much light to them as possible. While we’ve had a few glorious Spring sunny days the weather is still a bit unpredictable and the days not too long. As a result it is crucial to get as much light [...]

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2011 Growing Season Underway

February 24, 2011

I posted a few days ago about how one of my over wintering plants has suddenly sprung back into life, just as I was about to give up hope that any of the plants had made it through the winter. This has inspired me to finally get round to planting some chilli seeds. This year [...]

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Over Wintering Chillies – New Growth

February 14, 2011

Well for quite a while now my chilli plants that i am over wintering have been looking increasingly dead.After trimming them back in December, the plants have been looking so dormant i thought they were dead. First of all the stems took on a hallow look then the stems themselves started to turn black in [...]

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Hallow Stem

December 31, 2010

Having selected a few plants to over winter a few weeks ago i trimmed them back to help them preserve their energy over the cold months and moved them inside to keep them away from the very cold temperatures. Unfortunately we ran out of heating oil for about 1 week just before Christmas and as [...]

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Chilly Chillies

December 20, 2010

Unfortunately I left this poor plant outside a few weeks ago when i began to over winter my plants. I went outside at the weekend to discover it sitting in about 5 inches of snow. In order to give the plants I moved inside the best chance I am using my trusty greenhouse heater to keep [...]

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The Chilli House

June 29, 2010

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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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 [...]

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Overwintering Chillies – Update 3

March 20, 2010

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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