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i have about 8 Chilli plants in different pots some are 2.5 feet tall healthy looking and green. There are no flowers and no damn chillies! They get watered reguarly and are in the sun... what am i doing wrong?
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Georgina7 wrote:
i have about 8 Chilli plants in different pots some are 2.5 feet tall healthy looking and green. There are no flowers and no damn chillies! They get watered reguarly and are in the sun... what am i doing wrong? I don't know anything about them, but I suspect this is temperature related. You may wish to give some more climate data so someone else can offer an informed opinion. Jeff please help! |
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On Aug 15, 3:15*am, Georgina7
wrote: i have about 8 Chilli plants in different pots some are 2.5 feet tall healthy looking and green. There are no flowers and no damn chillies! They get watered reguarly and are in the sun... what am i doing wrong? please help! -- Georgina7 you have to speak to them in spanish... ORALE MI CUATE!!!!!!! |
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Chillies are just like tomatoes in their cultural requirements. You need to apply a chemical fertiliser containing higher ratio of phosphate to get good flowering and fruiting. India we grow vast quantity of chillies which are by and large sun dried and exported either as whole are powdered. If your plant is too leafy it may be getting too much of nitrogenous feed. Chillies need maximum sun and regular watering. In our farms we water them every five days. I use single super phosphate. Organic farmers use bone meal. Now that is your choice.
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@gardenbanter.co.uk says... i have about 8 Chilli plants in different pots some are 2.5 feet tall healthy looking and green. There are no flowers and no damn chillies! They get watered reguarly and are in the sun... what am i doing wrong? please help! Temperature. We've just started to get +25C or better days these past couple of weeks and ours started to blossom madly and set fruit. London ON Canada |
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On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:15:26 +0100, Georgina7
wrote: i have about 8 Chilli plants in different pots some are 2.5 feet tall healthy looking and green. There are no flowers and no damn chillies! They get watered reguarly and are in the sun... what am i doing wrong? please help! Chilies require much heat and sun. I see by your headers you are located in an area that reportedly has a paucity of both. Our chili plants normally produce more than we can use but this summer has been relatively cool and wet and the chilies have failed to set fruit. We have in the past, during cool damp summers, used a cloche over our chilies and it has definitely helped. Just haven't gotten around to it this year but, we still have lots of dried and pickled chilies from last year. You might try an experiment on one of your plants. Tie a big, clear plastic bag over the plant, in effect making a mini greenhouse and see if that improves its performance. Ross Southern Ontario, Canada. AgCanada Zone 5b 43º 17' 26.75" North 80º 13' 29.46" West |
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"Georgina7" wrote in message ... i have about 8 Chilli plants in different pots some are 2.5 feet tall healthy looking and green. There are no flowers and no damn chillies! They get watered reguarly and are in the sun... what am i doing wrong? please help! Next year, try one of the rocotto ( black seed) chile for your climate http://www.thechileman.org/results.p...=Any&genus=Any or http://tinyurl.com/n2wlky http://rocoto.com/Growing%20General.html http://www.g6csy.net/chile/growing.html |
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Georgina7 wrote:
i have about 8 Chilli plants in different pots some are 2.5 feet tall healthy looking and green. There are no flowers and no damn chillies! They get watered reguarly and are in the sun... what am i doing wrong? please help! They take warm days, above 80 F and warm nights, preferred is above 70 F. HTH -- signature goes here |
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"Georgina7" wrote in message ... i have about 8 Chilli plants in different pots some are 2.5 feet tall healthy looking and green. There are no flowers and no damn chillies! They get watered reguarly and are in the sun... what am i doing wrong? please help! Don't forget fertilizer and check for insect pests like whitefly. ;-) -- Georgina7 |
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"D. Arlington" wrote: "Georgina7" wrote in message ... i have about 8 Chilli plants in different pots some are 2.5 feet tall healthy looking and green. There are no flowers and no damn chillies! They get watered reguarly and are in the sun... what am i doing wrong? please help! Don't forget fertilizer and check for insect pests like whitefly. ;-) -- Georgina7 With sufficient water and fertilizer a plant may not feel the need to set fruit. Make sure that the surface soil is dry in your pots before you water, and "IF" you fertilize (at this time of the year), use a 0 - 10 - 10 (preferably organic). -- ³When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist.² -Archbishop Helder Camara http://tinyurl.com/o63ruj http://countercurrents.org/roberts020709.htm |
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I am living in the north east corner of Wisconsin. The only way I can get a
decent pepper crop is to plant the seedlings in black 2 gallon nursery pots and keep them on a south facing concrete wall, which acts as a heat reservoir through most of the night. I still end up brining them into the porch to get the fruit to ripen. Its fixing to be about that time. wrote in message ... On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:15:26 +0100, Georgina7 wrote: i have about 8 Chilli plants in different pots some are 2.5 feet tall healthy looking and green. There are no flowers and no damn chillies! They get watered reguarly and are in the sun... what am i doing wrong? please help! Chilies require much heat and sun. I see by your headers you are located in an area that reportedly has a paucity of both. Our chili plants normally produce more than we can use but this summer has been relatively cool and wet and the chilies have failed to set fruit. We have in the past, during cool damp summers, used a cloche over our chilies and it has definitely helped. Just haven't gotten around to it this year but, we still have lots of dried and pickled chilies from last year. You might try an experiment on one of your plants. Tie a big, clear plastic bag over the plant, in effect making a mini greenhouse and see if that improves its performance. Ross Southern Ontario, Canada. AgCanada Zone 5b 43º 17' 26.75" North 80º 13' 29.46" West |
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A chili plant is like a beautiful woman. You have to make it feel really special and talk nice to it. Keep it fed and watered and not too hot and you'll get some great chilis.
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