Chilli growing for 2013

Just pasted this section from a Chilli site below. It says Chillies do not need insects or indeed me with my little cotton buds pollinating the new flowers every couple of days ! Is this correct , can I just leave the flowers to do there own thing ?
PS : Pollinating my chilli plants is one of my favourite gardening jobs !


"Chillies are self pollinating – therefore they do not need insects or the wind to pollinate the flowers in order for fruit to form. "

 

Harry, like you, I manually pollinate chillies when they are in door where theren't any insects to do the job. I definitely notice that without my help the chilli fruits just fail to form. So regardless of what the web site says I'll just carry on.

That's an even better reason to carry on

 

Thanks Hsuh , I'll keep going with my tickling stick then

 

My chillies sown back in November are flowering and bearing fruits. One Jalapeno is such a bit plant, it certainly outgrew its pot and is around 1 m high. I never thought about pruning them and I guess that was a mistake! How do you prune your chilli plants so they're nice and bushy? I'll post some pics in a minute when they finally load from my phone.​

 

Ps. my sweet pepper is not doing great either, they're all tiny, chillies sown on same date are a lot bigger, not to mention that tomatoes are really big now in need of planting in the greenhouse, and sweet pepper sown same time has only one set of true leaves!

 

My jalapeno and cayenne

 

Hello chums

I have an 'Apache' that I bought last year which was presumably a 1st year plant. I re-potted it into some fresh compost but using the same pot (roughly 10"?). Anyway, it seems perfectly happy and is flourishing. Thing is, it's very compact and is producing lots and lots of mis-shapen Chillis, most of which are a bit small for practical use. So, should I have trimmed the plant at some stage? Could I trim it now? As it stands I've already taken off most of the small fruits, leaving the 'normal' shaped ones, of which there are plenty developing. Any thoughts?

Cheers...Freddy

 

Blimey, all stumped eh?

 

Sounds like its virused to me.
I'd dump it and get another one.
You did ask.

 

Here's a silly question:

Could a I grow my Cayenne's in a trough instead of individual pots? I'm going to try and convince Mrs Frost to put the herbs in the trough outside and replace them with chilies. The Trough is a bout 2' long, 6" wide and 6" deep. Ta

 

Hiya pete. I'm not so sure. Having removed all the stunted/mis-shapen fruits, the remaining fruits (of which there are many) are progressing nicely. I'll post a pic in the next few days....

 

My Chillies have grown well , flowered and produced fruit most of which I have now picked . The problem is at the moment there doesn't seem to be any more flowers being produced . Is this normal ? Will the next batch of flowers come along in there own good time ? Do I need to do anything to promote flowering ?
I am growing Hungarian Hot Wax and Fuego F1.

TIA

 

There you go pete .....



Cheers...Freddy