Lemon Drop Chilli

I am growing some of these this year, and have put three of them into a trough style planter that has a water tank underneath that gets filled through a plastic tube and the plants then get their roots down into the water through a perforated lid above the tank; anyway, since planting them into this planter, they have gone absolutely Radio Rental - already, they are almost touching the top of the window (so about three ft tall), and have seemed quite leggy until recently - - even the leaves are huge in comparison with the hot chillies that I have growing in a similar container on another windowsill facing the same direction.

The leaves on the lemon drop seem to develop all scrunched up, and then unfurl from there, and more recently the plants are bushing up a bit, however flower buds are still pretty sparse (again, comparing with the hot ones in the other planter)

Is this normal?

Admittedly, the hot ones have also got a spurt on this year when compared with last year - whether that is due to be being a bit more diligent with watering and feeding or not I have no idea.

 

My monsters have now disappeared up behind the blind, and are touching the top of the window - I'll try and get a photo tomorrow.

I think I might have twigged what has happened - when I first planted the three of them into the planter, I was lobbing chicken manure pellets about at stuff and threw a handful into one of the chilli troughs - I couldn't be bothered picking them all out, and figured they would do no harm...........

Given that the other chilli trough has the hot super chillies in it, and is looking pretty similar to those I had last year (albeit further on than they were), I reckon that the lemon drops must have been the ones that got the chicken poo; apparently it must be like steroids for plants?

 

Haven't heard of the lemon drop chilli but have now found a little review on it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=fuPfq2vYHSs