highlucks said:
I have three established plants, if you want one to set some pods before the season closes.
That's kind of you to offer, but the set-up I have for pots is not working, so it would probably not set pods for me even though you have grown a healthy plant.
The front garden (morning sun) has too much shade from the landlady's damn tree and the back garden (full afternoon sun) seems too exposed and the wind / extra sun etc. is causing grief. Not to mention the aphids and the damn chilli moth/maggot attacks.
The area I have for planting in the ground is OK, but the soil is wrong and its too late in the season to fix it. Next year I'll make it into a raised bed and fix the soil mix to something more organic and plant into ground rather than pots.
nemspy said:
Honestly, I'm just about ready to pull the pin and wait until we move away from this balcony situation.
My plants this year are beyond a joke. They started out all lush and lovely but every day I go out they have lost more leaves, very few flowers fail to drop, and 2/3 of my collection look like it's mid-winter and they have turned into sticks. The rest are either depressingly bereft of pods or covered in singed, sickly looking leaves. The only ones that are looking OK are my big red habanero and my big cheiro goias which looks great.
I know my situation is far from ideal for growing chillies; however, my plants looked like gold this time last year. I'm not doing anything differently -- they just don't want to live.
Probably going to drive a bunch of sticks up to mum's place to let them recover and perhaps early next season they will be strong enough, like the goias and the red hab, to live down here again.
It's depressing.
Sorry to hear Nemspy. I take it the goias and red hab were overwinters from last year as well? You are not alone in a bad season.
This was my first season / attempt at growing so many chilli types and I've leant so much, but that feels like little conciliation for the lack of pods.
My harvest to date has comprised:
3 x Fatalis (stunted in the pots - now dying)
10-15 Jalapenos (damping off fungus wiped out the plant from my early over-watering mistakes)
10 mexi-belles (damping off fungus wiped out the plant from my early over-watering mistakes)
30 odd Chocolate Habaneros (half the plant has dropped every leaf the other half is fully healthy? I think I possibly damaged a root when I potted it up)
20 odd Red Habaneros (plant is still healthy)
5 odd x Douglahs (plant is now a stick - poor soil mix?)
5 odd x Jonahs (plant is now a stick - poor soil mix?)
1 x Morugas Scorpion, 1 x Trinidad Cadi Yellow, 2 x Butch T, 2 x Bhuts Jolokia plants all produced NOTHING, grew well initially, dropped a ton of flowers and are now sticks or fighting an Aphid plague.
All my plants were generally in pots for a long, long portion of the growing season. The two that went to ground late are much, much healthier but have aphids, so I dont expect much from them in terms of late season pods
I'm just about to write the season off too. But I will be back next year for another go...