Chilies 2022

Sowed some Pikito on the 22nd Feb and that’s them just through. On to one of the south facing windowsills for them now for a couple of weeks anyway. Still have enough dried chillis from last year’s crop to hotten the munchies for a while yet.

 

First time I've grown it. Capsicum pubescens are supposed to be more cool tolerant and long lived but can fruit rather late apparently. Seeds were from Real seeds

 

No @JWK, I am far from a Chilli aficionado. I grow Chenzo because it is a really cute plant and does not grow too big for my rammed full greenhouse as per usual and an unnamed great Chilli the seed of which was sent to me by a well known admin.

 

Hi, Shiney. A couple of hundred! Wow!

I sowed mine on wet tissue in plastic bags. I sowed a few extra in case of poor germination but almost all of them sprouted, so I think I've already sown too many for my own use.

 

I found a pic from last year on march 12th, I certainly started earlier this year. I did overwinter a bunch of plants too though, not so this year

 

First flower open on my overwintered Mini Belle Chocolate.

 

I grew Cheyenne chillies in the greenhouse last year which produced lots of medium hot orange coloured fruits. I will be growing more this year. I bought them from www.thompson-morgan.com

 

Here are my peppers which were potted on a few days ago. I have 6x Corno di Toro sweet peppers and 2x Cayenne hot peppers. The cayenne is the one pictured in the middle.

 

First fruits on December-sown Redskin F1.

 

I need to repot mine...taken with recently pricked out tomatoes

 

All repotted now. I have transferred two of the locotos to larger pots in my unheated greenhouse in the allotment to see how they do. Theres no frost forecast but we could still get some for another month if the weather turns. I have too many plants so its a risk worth taking. They are supposed to do well with night time temps down to single figures