Hi Guys,

It's that time of year again when this hapless chilli grower is needing assistance.

I managed to over-winter my orange Habanero plants (x3) successfully with only a mild prune needed in January. The plants are budding, flowering and producing fruit now and other than my inability to keep up with pollenating every flower they seem healty enough. I am getting plenty of flower dropping but I am not overly concerned as they are producing so many flowers it is unreal.

What I am a little concerned about is the fruit. They are ripening very quickly and not getting anywhere near the size they should be. Many are ripening when not much bigger than a pea with the largest one only getting to raspberry size at best.

I am keeping them watered very few days if needed and using a chilli focus feed every other water but I am clearly doing something wrong?

The plants are kept in my conservatory without any additional heating but with the typical British weather the temperatures are all over the place.

Can anyone advise on what I could do to yeild larger fruit?

Thanks,
Stevie