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Thai Dragon peppers wont grow??

well my plants are about 18" to 20" tall they have been growing for about a month. When I bought them they were about 6" tall. How long after they start to bloom do they start to grow peppers?
 
You said that they are flowering. As soon as the flower startes to die the pepper is right behind it. Are the flowers or bud fallen of if so I agree with PF.
Dan



LET IT BURN
 
Are these the only peppers you have or do you have others? Is there a difference in how you have treated it

I have bunches of pods on mine which I look forward to harvesting.

A long story short: I sowed a packet of Thai Dragon seeds in the soil last year, but didn't see a single plant come up. The Sunday before a major frost was predicted, while I was pulling up other plants to add to the compost pile, I found about six of these things growing. Carefully, I dug them out of the ground and put them in containers to bring inside.

Thanks to lack of knowledge, inexperience, etc., only one survived, but I was happy. Then it got heavily infested with mites (I think - little red bugs) that almost killed it. Got rid of them, trimmed the plant back and come early January, new sprouts were starting to show. I was in 7th Heaven.

Then a cat knocked it off a stand, causing it to land on its head, lose a bunch of potting soil and suffer several broken branches. It never recovered.

Mike
 
the asian plants are very hardy & I have several varieties that produce heavily late in the season. If you have flowers you're doing everything right, if the flowers are falling off then your methods may need a little adjustment...but its only a matter of time before you have your first pods.

welcome to THP

:cheers:
 
I misunderstand this post.

wordwiz said:
Are these the only peppers you have or do you have others? Is there a difference in how you have treated it

I have bunches of pods on mine which I look forward to harvesting.

A long story short: I sowed a packet of Thai Dragon seeds in the soil last year, but didn't see a single plant come up. The Sunday before a major frost was predicted, while I was pulling up other plants to add to the compost pile, I found about six of these things growing. Carefully, I dug them out of the ground and put them in containers to bring inside.

Thanks to lack of knowledge, inexperience, etc., only one survived, but I was happy. Then it got heavily infested with mites (I think - little red bugs) that almost killed it. Got rid of them, trimmed the plant back and come early January, new sprouts were starting to show. I was in 7th Heaven.

Then a cat knocked it off a stand, causing it to land on its head, lose a bunch of potting soil and suffer several broken branches. It never recovered.

Mike
How can you harvest pods? Is it a different plant this time?
 
ditto need more info as to what the plant looks like or pictures would be better!
& yes it might take a couple days after a flower dies, then the chile pod starts to show.
I dont know about other people here but thais are the easiest to grow for me no matter what i do to them or the weather conditions unlike some other chiles, & they're prolific growers IMO.
my thai dragons have a bunch of little pods on them right now & many more flowers growing.
gotta love thais :cool:
 
ABM,

Yeah, sorry - different plant. It suvived the replant from the ground to the pot, suvived the spider mites but couldn't survive the cat.

Mike
 
wordwiz said:
Are these the only peppers you have or do you have others? Is there a difference in how you have treated it

I have bunches of pods on mine which I look forward to harvesting.

A long story short: I sowed a packet of Thai Dragon seeds in the soil last year, but didn't see a single plant come up. The Sunday before a major frost was predicted, while I was pulling up other plants to add to the compost pile, I found about six of these things growing. Carefully, I dug them out of the ground and put them in containers to bring inside.

Thanks to lack of knowledge, inexperience, etc., only one survived, but I was happy. Then it got heavily infested with mites (I think - little red bugs) that almost killed it. Got rid of them, trimmed the plant back and come early January, new sprouts were starting to show. I was in 7th Heaven.

Then a cat knocked it off a stand, causing it to land on its head, lose a bunch of potting soil and suffer several broken branches. It never recovered.

Mike

Good lord. This story almost made me cry. :lol:
 
I had a thai dragon plant last year that flowered but set few fruit. I think it was a bad plant. I havent done anything different this year and it is "pod city". It took one month from when the first flower appeared to what you see in the picture below.

thai_hot_hybrid002.jpg


I notice when it gets exceptionally hot I get a lot of blossom drop (flowers turn yellow) on the C.annums. Need a few cooler nights for the flowers to set properly. This week is forecast to be continuing in triple digits and sure enough I am seeing increased blossom drop.
 
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