Chilli Plants Turning Yellow – How to Resolve
Why are your chilli plant leaves turning yellow? We cover all the causes — from overwatering and nutrient deficiency to magnesium shortage and root problems — with fixes for each.
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Chilli Growing – Spring at Last
So it seems after a couple of false starts spring is well and truly with us. While the nights are still quite chilly the days are getting noticeably longer and we’ve had a nice sunny bank holiday weekend. Combined with the warmer temperatures this glorious sunshine is really kicking the plants on. Now is the…
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Self Watering Plant Trays
It seems like I’m forever watering my plants or worrying about if they’re drying out while I’m at work or away for an odd day or two. In fact it is the bain of my gardening life. A while ago now I posted about how I’ve built some self watering pots to use over the…
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Growing Update
Every year around this time I always seem to have the same problem…what to do with my chilli plants when I’m away on holiday? This year was no different. No sooner had a planted my super hots and got a decent crop of tender seedlings growing when all of a sudden it was time to…
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Chilli Grow Cupboard Build
After many years of growing chillies it’s become a habit to use artificial lighting early in the year to start my seedlings before Spring arrives in earnest. For the last few years I’ve mainly been using my old grow box which has been cluttering up the house every year for far too long. After a few…
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DIY Self Watering Pot
I mentioned some time ago I was thinking of building my own self watering planter. For one reason or another the project never got past the planning stage and then father christmas bought me some Quadgrow self watering planters. I was very impressed with the Quadgrows with all the plants using them outgrowing the normal…
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Time for Some Extra Light
As you can see below a few of my seedlings are becoming a little leggy. Since they germinated they’ve just had a regular 11W energy saving bulb over them as they’ve been kept in a dark room. I’m not too worried about this as I’ll just plant them a bit deeper when it comes time…
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My Overwintered Pepper Plants
So here’s a quick update on the chilli plants I’m currently over wintering. Most of the plants are kept in the chilli house which is a detached conservatory on the garden. They were all trimmed back in late November and re-potted into slightly smaller pots. I keep a greenhouse heater in in there during cold…
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And we’re off
After sowing 20 seeds on the 10th of January I’ve been patiently waiting for the first loop to appear. Here’s what I sowed in my first batch of the year: Brasileira Marimbondo x 2 Naga Jolokia x 3 Spanish Naga x 2 Dorset Naga x 2 Scotch Bonnet Orange x 1 White Habanero x 3…
