Ok its time again to get cracking on with a second year at chilli growing...cant wait....but i have a couple of questions about overwintered plants please.
At the end of last season i saved 3 plants. Scotch bonnet, habenaro and a demon. All of them plodded on through winter on my window sill (much to the wifes dismay
) I trimmed the right back following information id gained from this forum.
Now the scotch bonnet is loooking in bad health, its got droopy yellowing leaves, and growth seems much slower than the other two. I have had problems with greenfly intermitently through winter (used soapy water each time to kill them). Its just been repotted into some fresh soil and compost mix and placed in our greenhouse to see if that helps it along. things i noticed when removing it from the old pot were, very small root ball, almost rotton looking (very brown roots), a number of worms, and a couple of lavae thingys. just to top it off its snowed today like 3-4inch so its probably gotten quite cold last night and again tonight (not checked on it today, but my dad has been and put a parafin heater in there to help things along and help the fresh seedlings). It was very sunny last week 20dec C plus, hence the repottign and putting them out in the greenhouse.......crazy barmy british weather
Now the habenaro and demon seem to be doing well, I repotted them. fresh leaves are growing quite fast. But they are covered in buds. Im unsure what to do, ie let them flower and produce fruit or nip them to maybe encourage foliage growth to haw they were before pruning for winter? Ive nipped probably half off each plant but they came back fast.
one last thing, that demon plant is ace, its a warrior. It germinated very very late. got mollested by a slug as a small seedling, dropped from 8 foot onto the floor as a small plant and split it. dropped again, dropped into a bowl of soapy water when sorting the greenfly out. But it keeps on going, brillaint little dude!
Cheers and lets have a good un for 2012!
At the end of last season i saved 3 plants. Scotch bonnet, habenaro and a demon. All of them plodded on through winter on my window sill (much to the wifes dismay
) I trimmed the right back following information id gained from this forum.Now the scotch bonnet is loooking in bad health, its got droopy yellowing leaves, and growth seems much slower than the other two. I have had problems with greenfly intermitently through winter (used soapy water each time to kill them). Its just been repotted into some fresh soil and compost mix and placed in our greenhouse to see if that helps it along. things i noticed when removing it from the old pot were, very small root ball, almost rotton looking (very brown roots), a number of worms, and a couple of lavae thingys. just to top it off its snowed today like 3-4inch so its probably gotten quite cold last night and again tonight (not checked on it today, but my dad has been and put a parafin heater in there to help things along and help the fresh seedlings). It was very sunny last week 20dec C plus, hence the repottign and putting them out in the greenhouse.......crazy barmy british weather
Now the habenaro and demon seem to be doing well, I repotted them. fresh leaves are growing quite fast. But they are covered in buds. Im unsure what to do, ie let them flower and produce fruit or nip them to maybe encourage foliage growth to haw they were before pruning for winter? Ive nipped probably half off each plant but they came back fast.
one last thing, that demon plant is ace, its a warrior. It germinated very very late. got mollested by a slug as a small seedling, dropped from 8 foot onto the floor as a small plant and split it. dropped again, dropped into a bowl of soapy water when sorting the greenfly out. But it keeps on going, brillaint little dude!
Cheers and lets have a good un for 2012!
hopefully get some photos this evening of my plants.
