Mankeli's chili plants in Finland

Mankeli · Apr 10, 2012

Sun is shining and plants are outside..

Here's Cayenne and some sort of Tangerine

Black Pearl.. it's very windy day and it looks like the plant is going to fly away from its pot!

Mankeli · Apr 13, 2012

Not much happened but i took photos of two babies..

Jalapeno (C.annuum)

Melothria scabra.. some kind of jungle fruit it is..

Paavo the cat! Not a baby anymore.. 12 years old gentleman..

meatfreak · Apr 13, 2012

That's a pretty cat

Plants are looking happy in the sun also, wish we had some over here

KiNGDeNNiZ · Apr 14, 2012

Champion and bhut x. I want pods/seeds lol

Mankeli · Apr 14, 2012

Here's some phots of the nature of Finland, if anyone's interested..

Blueberries

Cladonia

Pine tree

Roots

Summer +30 celsius

Winter.. -25 celsius

PaulG · Apr 15, 2012

Nice photographs, Mankeli! Your pepper plants and flowers look
fabulous, and your pod shots, too. How long is your growing
season in Finland? I imagine things grow fast in the long summer days?

Mankeli · Apr 15, 2012

PaulG said:
Nice photographs, Mankeli! Your pepper plants and flowers look
fabulous, and your pod shots, too. How long is your growing
season in Finland? I imagine things grow fast in the long summer days?

Thanks Paul!!

Well i usually take my plants outdoors permanetly at some point of may and take them back inside maybe september or so.. it depends. But yeah.. it's cool that the sun hardly never sets at summer here.. so yes, plants grow pretty fast at summer. And summers are pretty warm here usually.. :dance:

Mankeli · Apr 15, 2012

Few photos:

Black Pearl is finally starting to show some Black on it's leaves! Cool!

And pod is also starting to go black.. tho i think this is a cross between Black Pearl and Bolivian Rainbow cos the pods shape isnt Black pearl.

Bhut Jolokia x Trinidad Perfumes pod isnt growing at all.. maybe because cold air during the flowering.

Plants on the fence..

Mankeli · Apr 17, 2012

I got a new camera yesterday and took few photos.. need to practise more but they came out pretty good.

Mystery chinense

Black Pearl

Brazilian Starfish i got from a friend few days ago

Beehunter · Apr 17, 2012

Nice pics must be a cool new cam

Keep the pics coming!

meatfreak · Apr 17, 2012

Indeed great pictures, also the ones from the landscape. I must say I'm surprised you can keep you plants outside that long, sounds like your season is even better then ours :lol:

Mankeli · Apr 17, 2012

Thank you very much!

The camera seems to be pretty nice yea. Cant wait to get outdoors to take some photos.. now its +2 celsius and snowing again..wtf? Not fun at all.

Well i just checked that last summer i took plants outside end of may and back inside end of August. Let's see how it goes on this summer. If i had a greenhouse i could already keep my plants there..

slashroot · Apr 17, 2012

You got some beautiful plants going! I guess we share a bit of the same weather up here north, poor us haha

Days are about +6 and down to minus some nights. Been pretty cold.

When you normally plant out or move them out there in Finland?

Mankeli · Apr 18, 2012

slashroot said:
You got some beautiful plants going! I guess we share a bit of the same weather up here north, poor us haha

Days are about +6 and down to minus some nights. Been pretty cold.

When you normally plant out or move them out there in Finland?

Thanks mate! Where are you from?

Here's also like +6 and still some minus at night. It seems its going to get warmer soon.. on sunday should be +16 and sunny.. we'll see!

Last year i took plants outside end of May.. soon as temperature doesnt go anymore to minus at night. But now i can take my plants outside at daytime and take them back inside for night. But i have half of my plants at my parents place so it's a bit problem, cos i cant be there carrying plants inside at night so we'll see when i can permanetly take them out. Maybe some point of may i hope! I will plant one chili to outside and that will probably happen in end of may or so..

slashroot · Apr 18, 2012

Mankeli said:
Thanks mate! Where are you from?

Here's also like +6 and still some minus at night. It seems its going to get warmer soon.. on sunday should be +16 and sunny.. we'll see!

Last year i took plants outside end of May.. soon as temperature doesnt go anymore to minus at night. But now i can take my plants outside at daytime and take them back inside for night. But i have half of my plants at my parents place so it's a bit problem, cos i cant be there carrying plants inside at night so we'll see when i can permanetly take them out. Maybe some point of may i hope! I will plant one chili to outside and that will probably happen in end of may or so..

South Norway, very close to the ocean. You're north or south in Finland?

From now and on it's very rare to get minus here, maybe a few more nights this month. These last days it's been +3c at night and +8c at day with rainy weather. Being 16c at this time of year sounds pretty amazing, sure won't be that warm here in a long time!

Wish I could bring the peppers out at day too but that's impossible when working all the time, got a nice system indoors anyway

One week ago I put one Red Manzano plant in my greenhouse just as an experiment if it would survive. It's said to be a very tolerant type of plant originated from some high altitude mountains somewhere. So far it seems to look fine, it's been out in +3c.

Mankeli · Apr 19, 2012

slashroot said:
South Norway, very close to the ocean. You're north or south in Finland?

From now and on it's very rare to get minus here, maybe a few more nights this month. These last days it's been +3c at night and +8c at day with rainy weather. Being 16c at this time of year sounds pretty amazing, sure won't be that warm here in a long time!

Wish I could bring the peppers out at day too but that's impossible when working all the time, got a nice system indoors anyway

One week ago I put one Red Manzano plant in my greenhouse just as an experiment if it would survive. It's said to be a very tolerant type of plant originated from some high altitude mountains somewhere. So far it seems to look fine, it's been out in +3c.

Norway, cool! I've been there once as a child. Loved it! We were some place called Bergen if i remember the name right. There was some kickass mountains and stuff.. very cool looking nature! I live in southern Finland.. thank god!

Well +16 is just what the weather guy in TV said.. and they say lots of things that doesnt really happen.

Yeah.. Rocotos are nice plants. They can take cold much more than other chilis.. love them!

Beehunter · Apr 19, 2012

Man i am far south from you and my weather right now is about the same. and this time of year sun is very hard to come by! we are covered in grey clouds for so long. But it looks like by next wednesday we might have a sunny day again

I didnt know that about Rocotos! were you able to leave them outside longer last year? Maybe i have to look into growing some!

Mankeli · Apr 19, 2012

Yeah.. also here is lots of gray clouds on the sky and the sun have shined only in few days. Tomorrow it's snowing AGAIN omg lol! But next week seems to be a bit warmer.

Rocotos were the first ones i took out last summer.. and the last i took inside. They were doing fine tho it was like +5-10 celsius at night. They seem to like that the air is chilly at night and warm on day time. As they naturally grow in mountains where the nights can be pretty cold and days are sunny, but not too hot! Rocotos are also the best tasting chilis i've tasted so far and so nice looking plants.. completely different than others! Damn this english is sometimes hard to write.. hope you get sense!.. my head is not working now..

The Howster · Apr 19, 2012

Good to see your having success in places I thought would be worse than the UK which comes with poor weather too. I think you probably have a similar time frame to put things outside, but in the UK we often get an Indian summer in September so can keep things producing until early October. Last year was a rubbish summer for us so I'm hoping this year will be hotter, won't get the uber long days like you though.

slashroot · Apr 19, 2012

Yea you're right, the name is Bergen. That's north west from where I live, I'm living on the most southern part of Norway almost.

Sure are lot's of mountains here, only once been to Bergen though so don't remember how it's there. Though the nature in Finland was not that different? Just thousands of lakes and a bit more flat?

I don't know a lot about what the Rocotos can handle, my first year growing them. One thing for sure that it's grown bigger and faster than all my other peppers in my hydroponic unit. The one I put outside in greenhouse is still small, in soil though.

Looking forward to getting some Rocoto pods, had like 60 flowers drop and no peppers formed. Only thing I can think of is that my watering schedule in my hydroponic unit is too much so I will cut down on that and hopefully that solves the flower drop issue!

Last summer sure was rubbish, rain, rain and more rain. No sun to boost the growth of plants. Hopefully warmer and less rain this summer. You "Howster" are lucky to be more south than me! Easier to produce peppers hehe