Winter Chili Plant Progress

A selection of chili seedlings and mature plants, currently growing in my spare room until the weather becomes warm enough to put them outside.

The first half of the clip shows the seedlings that were planted late last year. They consist of: Tobago, Sweet Chocolate Pepper, Pasillo, Ring Of Fire, Sahara and Hinkelhatz Yellow. This was filmed shortly after potting on to larger containers, so some of them look a little 'shocked'.

In the second part of the clip are some more mature plants. Firstly, some medium-sized ones that started growing last Summer. These are a selection of the same chilis mentioned above. They are looking a little pale, probably due to the fact they need some warm sunshine. They should be fine once the weather improves.

Finally, there are some fully matured plants that I am trying to over-Winter. These are Hot Lemon (Aji) chilis. They seem to be doing OK, and are still occasionally producing fruit.

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• Chili
• Pepper
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• Aji
• Tobago
• Habanero
• Jalapeno
• Over-Wintering

[marynguyen325]

hey i try to grow a pepper but it kept dieing

[chalkmeister]

@marynguyen325 - don't give up on it, try some more. Some of the types are harder to grow. I lost quite a few plants too, but it is great when it works out.

[chalkmeister]

These were grown right from seeds, yes. I started them off by placing them in damp tissue paper, inside small plastic bags in a warm cupboard.

Once they began to sprout I potted them on and placed them in the window where they seem to get plenty of light.

This year I have a small electric radiator under the shelving which is giving them some extra heat. I'll probably post a short clip of them soon.

[TheMindPhenomenon]

@chalkmeister How long did it take the seeds to sprout in the tissue paper?

[chalkmeister]

@TheMindPhenomenon The amount of time varies depending on the type of seeds. Jalapeno seeds started to grow after only a few days. Some habaneros took significantly longer - a few weeks it I remember correctly.

I also tried some fish peppers, but they never grew at all ! I'm trying some more of those with a more 'traditional' compost method.

[CoinDetective]

@fatturdburger

It's best if the soil level is kept at it's original level.

[WAXTHEFUR]

did u start these from seeds? is this natural light growing from window? I wanna start my plants like this

[fatturdburger]

They doing good, when you pot them up again you can take the seed leaves off & plant up to were they were & they will root all along the stems.

You can even plant deeper but I would do it gradualy because the stems can rot.