chilli & peppers growing help

good morning all hope your all well

well i thought i would post this just on the off chance it helps anyone

i have read on here a few times people having problems with getting chillis & peppers to get going

so i thought i would let you know how i do it as so far i have grown 16 pots so far (8 chillis & 8 peppers) i started mine on the 2nd feb

i am addicted to potnoodles so decided to save the pots as they are quite good for sowing in :D

filled them with compost gave them a good soaking with warm water placed 2 chilli seeds in did'nt cover them a great deal with compost only slighty

and then put clingfilm over the top of the pot

now i have a double radiator next to a window which i placed all the pots on which they stayed warm when the heating is on and then cool at night when its off and within 3/5 days they had all come up.

i did grow them last yr as well but that was my first time and i put them in a pot with no clingfilm and not on the radiator and they took over 3 weeks to come up i was'nt far off binning them and starting again

anyway hope that does help someone a little

thanks for reading :D

 

thanks cattwoman 25 this is my first year with
chilli i started mine on the 5Th march in gh got them covered with paper and flees but think i will give the clingfilm a go

 

nice tip CW

Haven't tried clingfilm before - will do so this week. 5 sweetpeppers and 2 cayenne pepper plants (out of about 20 or so) survived overwintering. They're all Anuum types, which according to http://www.thechileman.org/index.php
can be a bit tricky.....
All the plants that survived were removed from the greenhouse before the first frosts last year, and possibly significantly had borne all their fruit already, and were developing small new leaves on the main stem. All the others pegged it - so that might be a way to keep them going.

The brown and red peppers already have grown new shoots up to 6" tall, and have been kept on a sunny windowsill, just above a radiator.

just my 2p worth

cheers,
Dave

 

Oops, nearly forgot - the stems were cut back to about 1/2 or 2/3 their height, to just above a big cluster of leaves, often where the stem forks. Despite the name Anuum, apparently peppers are perrenial, and will give better crops in years 2 -5 than the first year! Well, I guess we'll find out this year.....

cheers,
Dave

 

Ah another oxymoron - 'edible chilli'. :D

 

Shiney, I got heartburn just reading that.

 

With professional hat on I can say they are very good on anti-oxidants. Reports are they help reduce blood pressure so should increase longevity. Of course I am not a toxicologist. :D

 

Got any spare Losec, John? :D

 

I put 5 thin slices of a Habanera Orange chilli (one of last years) on my half of a home made pizza. That was 2 weeks ago, I can still feel it burning, I lost 2 pints in perspiration. :D
I think Jalapenos and Cayennes are as hot as I can go.

 

T'other half is a Habanera freak ... Jalapenos are his mild things with Cayenne on everything from scrambled eggs to God only knows what.

Strongy, you cannot afford to lose 2 pints in perspiration ... on the other hand, I am working on it working up for the "big one". :D