The Chilli King

Naga Lotta Growth

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!

Stunted Naga Chilli Plants

Amazingly the plants were still alive despite not having been watered for several weeks at least. They’d been out of direct sunlight on the lower shelf of the staging which probably explains how they managed to not die of thirst. After giving them a bit of water (and some feed) they soon perked up and actually look surprisingly healthy, if a little on the small side!

Considering it is August already I very much doubt the plants will have enough time to develop so I won’t get any ripe chillies from them this year. Instead I think I’ll have to be satisfied with over wintering the plants and hoping to get a good head start on next years growing season.