I used 300mm pots too for my full growns (this is my first year growing chinenses from seed, but I've grown up heaps of seedlings and always got cayennes and birdseye chillies from my own seeds).
I normally start with 100mm sq pots like you buy seedlings in for my first transplant. Then when 30cm tall switch to medium 200mm round pots, then to deeper 300mm pots. I use the round decor terracotta coloured plastic pots.
I probably wouldn't use black pots for the final two sizes out in the summer heat, as above, it's bad enough. Square pots are a good space saver, but I don't like the plants close to each other anyway to avoid cross pollination.
gasificada: I normally stay as small as possible, I've always had problems with having too large a pot. May be related to the quality of my potting mix, but plants just don't grow if the pots are too wet and the bottom of the pot gets all skanky and the roots won't grow. So I keep as small as possible so the pots stay fairly dry. I even pulled out most of my old plants and jammed them back into 200mm or 100mm pots for the winter. The only ones still in the 300mm pots are the biggest and tallest newest plants. I'd rather plants root bound than sitting in a mouldy swamp.
Damn, why is it so easy to germinate chilli seeds in winter?
Got about 12 now, nearly everything had sprouted and those that haven't, have actually germinated. And this is old seeds, in normal potting mix, and includes seeds that never worked for me like habaneros from CSB. This is juast after 6 days in the peltier fridge. Got seedlings everywhere, but no light or heat for them
Three casualties though, a PC1 naga that sprouted, but then the leaves died, a jalapeno that I must of damaged when digging around to see if it's germinated because it's cut in two, and a habanero I dropped.
8 out trying to get sunlight somewhere, 3 popped up in the fridge but nowhere to go, and of the rest I was worried about because none of that type had sprouted yet, a quick dig through shows they have germinated and are days away from being ready. It's cold here, it takes just 2min for the soil in the pots to go from warm in the fridge to freezing, soggy and cold.
GL on the ice skating Nova, I wouldn't be game to do it these days!
I normally start with 100mm sq pots like you buy seedlings in for my first transplant. Then when 30cm tall switch to medium 200mm round pots, then to deeper 300mm pots. I use the round decor terracotta coloured plastic pots.
I probably wouldn't use black pots for the final two sizes out in the summer heat, as above, it's bad enough. Square pots are a good space saver, but I don't like the plants close to each other anyway to avoid cross pollination.
gasificada: I normally stay as small as possible, I've always had problems with having too large a pot. May be related to the quality of my potting mix, but plants just don't grow if the pots are too wet and the bottom of the pot gets all skanky and the roots won't grow. So I keep as small as possible so the pots stay fairly dry. I even pulled out most of my old plants and jammed them back into 200mm or 100mm pots for the winter. The only ones still in the 300mm pots are the biggest and tallest newest plants. I'd rather plants root bound than sitting in a mouldy swamp.
Damn, why is it so easy to germinate chilli seeds in winter?
Got about 12 now, nearly everything had sprouted and those that haven't, have actually germinated. And this is old seeds, in normal potting mix, and includes seeds that never worked for me like habaneros from CSB. This is juast after 6 days in the peltier fridge. Got seedlings everywhere, but no light or heat for them
Three casualties though, a PC1 naga that sprouted, but then the leaves died, a jalapeno that I must of damaged when digging around to see if it's germinated because it's cut in two, and a habanero I dropped.
8 out trying to get sunlight somewhere, 3 popped up in the fridge but nowhere to go, and of the rest I was worried about because none of that type had sprouted yet, a quick dig through shows they have germinated and are days away from being ready. It's cold here, it takes just 2min for the soil in the pots to go from warm in the fridge to freezing, soggy and cold.
GL on the ice skating Nova, I wouldn't be game to do it these days!
