Very happy right now, just found that one of my habanero plants has two fruits on it. For some reason, everything but the habs and they cayenne was setting fruit like crazy. Lots of flowers, but all were dropping. Wasnt to windy, humidity was good, temps are good, plants werent over or under wet, but still had no success. Im guessing these plants need longer to get themselves into fruiting mood than the others, the temps they were in improved a lot over the last two weeks. I think they must have been dropping 5-10 flowers per day each for a while, was driving me nuts!
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Hi Mcgoo.
Dont worry too much about hot days. If its windy get them out of the wind but as far as heat goes i let mine fry in the sun and the love it.
I let the cook till the leaves all droop and then give them a nice cold drink in the arvo as the sun falls.
ORange habs........... you could water it with petrol and round up and it would laugh as you. I put mine is a really big pot and it produces over 400 peppers last year. I have already pulled around 150 off it after over wintering and ask moyboy what it looks like now. Its good fo anouther 80 or more and flowering again. Most are 10 to 12g each!
Lots of sun. lots of space for the roots and only feed them once a week. Keep the roots moist.......... not wet if you know what i mean. Let them stress and start to droop before you water but dont let them dry out. I have found the go nuts like this.
I use the thrive fruiting fert whick is lower in nitrogen and works a treat.
cheers
Dont worry too much about hot days. If its windy get them out of the wind but as far as heat goes i let mine fry in the sun and the love it.
I let the cook till the leaves all droop and then give them a nice cold drink in the arvo as the sun falls.
ORange habs........... you could water it with petrol and round up and it would laugh as you. I put mine is a really big pot and it produces over 400 peppers last year. I have already pulled around 150 off it after over wintering and ask moyboy what it looks like now. Its good fo anouther 80 or more and flowering again. Most are 10 to 12g each!
Lots of sun. lots of space for the roots and only feed them once a week. Keep the roots moist.......... not wet if you know what i mean. Let them stress and start to droop before you water but dont let them dry out. I have found the go nuts like this.
I use the thrive fruiting fert whick is lower in nitrogen and works a treat.
cheers
Thanks Tony, so far all plants have been getting fod once every two weeks, with seasol at the same time. Im using tomato food, hoping that does the trick. I have a huge mother pot, its really made for a tree to be honest, I was going to save it for a kaffir lime tree, maybe I should do a reshuffle and put it in there. Or, just wait until the tomatoes die and re-pot the habs and chinense types into the bigger pots. I cant afford to buy any more pots, both economically and in terms of real estate, there is simply nowhere to put them!
On a different note, one of the habs is in a heavy loam soil, instead of straight potting mix. Will have to compare this with the others at the end of the season. So far, it needs half as much water as the others, and when full and watered, the pot weighs probably 15-20kg, a good 5-7kg more than the other pots of the same size.
On a different note, one of the habs is in a heavy loam soil, instead of straight potting mix. Will have to compare this with the others at the end of the season. So far, it needs half as much water as the others, and when full and watered, the pot weighs probably 15-20kg, a good 5-7kg more than the other pots of the same size.
I have been getting bored lately, so have decided to plant some seeds. Yes, it is 6 months out from when they should be getting planted, I dont care, I wanna grow something.
: stomps foot :
Some of the seeds went down on the 2nd of Jan from what I got for chrissie, the fatalii and choc habs went down 12 Jan, and I took a jalapeno cutting yesterday, well just because.
This is what I have living at the top of the stairs right now, its a seed tray with ancho, choc hab, fatalii, big jim, habanero limon, and goat horn in it, just seeing how long they take top pop up in average temps here. The icecream tub is the Im-on-food-stamp greenhouse greenhouse, some gladwrap over the top to keep humidity in, and some jiffy pots inside containing choc habs and fatalii. The cups have jiffy pellets with the same choc hab and fatalii seeds, as well as some supermarket chillies I bought and am trying to grow.
This is my indoor propagating cupboard, cunningly disguised as a linen closet/hot water unit. Very deceptive. The temp right on the heater is around 31 C, two shelves up gives me 27 odd C. Between that and the mini greenhouse, I figure these should pop up pretty soon. There are (wait for it) fatalii and choc hab seeds in there, as well as some interesting ornamental and superhot types, the rest of my chrissie planting really.
This shot shows my alarm clock/temp guage (strange mix, but very useful) for keeping an eye on temps. Wondering if I should set the alarm to wake up the seeds, nyuk nyuk nuyk...
Tough crowd.
: stomps foot :
Some of the seeds went down on the 2nd of Jan from what I got for chrissie, the fatalii and choc habs went down 12 Jan, and I took a jalapeno cutting yesterday, well just because.
This is what I have living at the top of the stairs right now, its a seed tray with ancho, choc hab, fatalii, big jim, habanero limon, and goat horn in it, just seeing how long they take top pop up in average temps here. The icecream tub is the Im-on-food-stamp greenhouse greenhouse, some gladwrap over the top to keep humidity in, and some jiffy pots inside containing choc habs and fatalii. The cups have jiffy pellets with the same choc hab and fatalii seeds, as well as some supermarket chillies I bought and am trying to grow.
This is my indoor propagating cupboard, cunningly disguised as a linen closet/hot water unit. Very deceptive. The temp right on the heater is around 31 C, two shelves up gives me 27 odd C. Between that and the mini greenhouse, I figure these should pop up pretty soon. There are (wait for it) fatalii and choc hab seeds in there, as well as some interesting ornamental and superhot types, the rest of my chrissie planting really.
This shot shows my alarm clock/temp guage (strange mix, but very useful) for keeping an eye on temps. Wondering if I should set the alarm to wake up the seeds, nyuk nyuk nuyk...
Tough crowd.
Anyway, here is where I have been putting them when they sprout:
It gets enough shade that the seedlings dont keel over, but enough light that they are growing pretty well. In fact, I planted two rounds of burke's backyard thai hot, the first a month ago, the second 12 days ago. The recent version is double the size of the older already, I think due to being nursed along, as opposed to being raised in full sunlight all of its life. On the other hand, the older ones might be living their lives along the lines of 'A Boy Named Sue', and grow up to be mean little sonsabitches.
I took a cutting of a jalapeno yesterday, partly because the plant needed topping (was leggy, without putting any new growth for a few weeks), amd I wanted to try it out before I cut back my special plants nearer to winter. Will wait and see how it goes. I used Yates clonex gel, and now have it in a plastic-wrapped bucket, water in the bottom, outside where its part shaded. Should be nice and humid in there. If this works, I may try and clone more of my plants in the future, as this seems to be a great way of getting more plants. I saw something a while ago on 'air rooting' where a lady would attatch cups of soil (or some media) to the main stem of a plant, it looked to be 3 or 4 pots over 3 feet of stem. Come spring time, she chopped them off just below the cup, and planted the new additions. Anyone done this?
It gets enough shade that the seedlings dont keel over, but enough light that they are growing pretty well. In fact, I planted two rounds of burke's backyard thai hot, the first a month ago, the second 12 days ago. The recent version is double the size of the older already, I think due to being nursed along, as opposed to being raised in full sunlight all of its life. On the other hand, the older ones might be living their lives along the lines of 'A Boy Named Sue', and grow up to be mean little sonsabitches.
I took a cutting of a jalapeno yesterday, partly because the plant needed topping (was leggy, without putting any new growth for a few weeks), amd I wanted to try it out before I cut back my special plants nearer to winter. Will wait and see how it goes. I used Yates clonex gel, and now have it in a plastic-wrapped bucket, water in the bottom, outside where its part shaded. Should be nice and humid in there. If this works, I may try and clone more of my plants in the future, as this seems to be a great way of getting more plants. I saw something a while ago on 'air rooting' where a lady would attatch cups of soil (or some media) to the main stem of a plant, it looked to be 3 or 4 pots over 3 feet of stem. Come spring time, she chopped them off just below the cup, and planted the new additions. Anyone done this?
"I saw something a while ago on 'air rooting' where a lady would attatch cups of soil (or some media) to the main stem of a plant, it looked to be 3 or 4 pots over 3 feet of stem. Come spring time, she chopped them off just below the cup, and planted the new additions. Anyone done this?"
Hey Mcgoo can you explain this a bit more. I am having trouble grasping what you are trying to explain
Sounds weird and i like weird...
Hey Mcgoo can you explain this a bit more. I am having trouble grasping what you are trying to explain
Sounds weird and i like weird...
so many crazy Perth people planting seeds in January! lol.
I'm just gonna try look after what I have - learned a lot of lessons for next season
I'm just gonna try look after what I have - learned a lot of lessons for next season
Novacastrian, here is my highly technical drawing of it as I understand it:
On the left is the original, high yielding 7 pot/Naga/Chocolate fatalii cross, the middle is where the cups would go (and probably stay for a month or more, long enough for roots to become established), and right is where you would take a cutting/whatever you call it. The idea is that because chillies are the type of plant where roots will grow from the stem anywhere they are covered (I think thats how it works), which is why when you transplant them, if you plant them up to their first leaves, they will grow roots from there. This is taking that idea one step further. I guess someone, someday, said "Why cant we start roots in mid-air?" I have only ever seen one picture, and cant find any info on it, but from what I have learned about chillies, this is how I would assume it works.
all experts, feel free to comment!
On the left is the original, high yielding 7 pot/Naga/Chocolate fatalii cross, the middle is where the cups would go (and probably stay for a month or more, long enough for roots to become established), and right is where you would take a cutting/whatever you call it. The idea is that because chillies are the type of plant where roots will grow from the stem anywhere they are covered (I think thats how it works), which is why when you transplant them, if you plant them up to their first leaves, they will grow roots from there. This is taking that idea one step further. I guess someone, someday, said "Why cant we start roots in mid-air?" I have only ever seen one picture, and cant find any info on it, but from what I have learned about chillies, this is how I would assume it works.
all experts, feel free to comment!
I've seen this concept in the bonsai world. What you do is remove a few cm of bark where you want the roots to appear. Then you wrap the area in sphagnum moss wrapped inside clear plastic foil. When roots are visible through the plastic foil, it's time to cut the branch form the plant.
This is the theory anyway.
This is the theory anyway.
whats wrong with sticking the rootsin some dirt and eating hop chillis as they grow?
Oh man......... i dont get it.
I once did a team building thing where they tested us on our personalities and i was Mr Nike!........ Just do it!
I was said to seek the most simple and effective way to do anything with maximum results!
That was a profesionals opinion!
I just put them in a pot and the grow.
Looks like too much work to me!
great concept.......... i love the concept but........ i juts like a pot!
cheers
Oh man......... i dont get it.
I once did a team building thing where they tested us on our personalities and i was Mr Nike!........ Just do it!
I was said to seek the most simple and effective way to do anything with maximum results!
That was a profesionals opinion!
I just put them in a pot and the grow.
Looks like too much work to me!
great concept.......... i love the concept but........ i juts like a pot!
cheers
AlabamaJack
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tony05 said:I notice the pic with extra pots for roots has no peppers on it
it's a late season developer
