Chillies 2021

Looking at the pics, pot them on, the pots are to small. Start feeding them now that they are producing flowers. Tomato feed or chilli focus are good.
Apologies if this has been replied too, I feel in shock! I will miss our armandii

 

Is the Dorset Naga chilli plant well known because i just came across some videos about it today..or is there even possibly bigger ones to grow..given the time and effort plus more southern climate in polytunel that is ?

 

Hello - I'm a new participant in the forum , growing some chilli varieties - golden cayenne ( 3 plants , lemon habanero ( 2 plants ) , aji omnicolor ( 2 plants ) apache and super chilli ( 3 each ).

I don't have a greenhouse so these are all indoors in a light room in essentially 10 cm pots other than the habaneros which i potted up yesterday one size up. Everything is destined to stay in pots , and in a few weeks I'm hoping at-least some can stay outside most of the time in my quite sheltered courtyard in London.

My question is this - I read quite conflicting advice re pot size. Apache I am sure I have seen can do fine in 1-2 litre pots ( so basically one size up from the ones currently ) , super chilli a little bigger although thinking i might put all 3 of those in one (bigger) pot) . Aji I actually bought the seeds as i thought this was going to be compact ( suitable for 1 litre) too , but does anyone have any experience of this as saw that it can be quite a sprawling vine-like plant.

And would 3-5 litre pots be ok for the golden cayenne and habanero ( i might try and keep the latter alive into next year by bringing indoors as although leaves are huge they don't seem to have grown especially tall)

Thank you very much in advance

 

thank you @shiney -- I was similarly thinking beginning of June for the season transfer outside (shall keep one each of the smaller ones in 2 litre pots as house plants under a skylight to see how they do) - and just to double check -- there should be no issues if eg I want to put 3 golden cayennes in a 10 litre pot ( for example) vs 1 plant per (smaller) pot? Was just thinking once they are potted up and don't fit my carrying tray it is likely to be easier to move 2-3 larger pots than a dozen smaller ones in and out of the house. I'll post pictures once there is something other than just leaves to see!

 

Welcome to the forum @Lovechillies !

Yes, @shiney is giving you great advice. I too was confused when I first started growing them and believed an American site that said only to use 5 gallon pots. Well, I landed up with a greenhouse full of tall leafy things and not a lot of peppers on each plant. Here's a pic. I still get tall plants with smaller pots but they are more productive.

 

Thanks @CanadianLori - that is really helpful -- that is exactly what I was confused about ( ie I can understand that there will be some nuance to pot size based on how much you want to feed/water and your climate , but the advice is massively variable even on the same variety. Perhaps the much-larger-planter-brigade are in much warmer climes and growing them as quasi-shrubs.

 

Help!! Calling all chilli experts! Last year, I accidentally grew some yellow chillies that turned out to be very good for stuffing. Pleasantly spicy, but not blisteringly hot. About 50mm (2") long, quite chubby fruits. Could anyone confirm what variety they might be? I didn't save seed, but may have some left over from the original swap, just don't know which one. (They did eventually turn red on the plants, but very slowly).

 

Thanks, John! That was the one that sprang to my mind, given the colour of the young fruits which look exactly like candle wax . I wouldn't call it 'hot' though. I'll sow some of those anyway, and see what turns up