It all started when I received a present of dried peppers from South Africa.
These peppers are really great, both is size and flavour so I decided to grow them myself and make pictures for this instructable in the process :).
Its my first instructable, it took a year to grow...
These peppers are really great, both is size and flavour so I decided to grow them myself and make pictures for this instructable in the process :).
Its my first instructable, it took a year to grow...
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1st tip, start to germinate your seeds as soon as possible.
Minimum T° required is 26°C, keep the germ box moisted.
When the seedlings appear, give them a lot of light (temp might be between 20-22°).
Soil is very important for Chinense, ph between 5-6.5 EC no more than 0,8 deciSiemens/meter.
Good luck ;)
Since I live in a very nice climate and due to a utter lack of time to garden, this sorry lot seized their opportunity and just grew on to produced these very varied peppers, in their second year. Peppers are supposed to be annual...
This morning I used them to make green tomato chutney (which is the sole purpose of growing them).
At the moment I am growing bell shaped peppers but it is important they come out that way because we want to use them for Christmas decorations.
So, a straight answer: the seeds you save from the peppers will give you edible plants that might be cross pollinated, unless your original seeds were F!-hybrids for which I refer you to a discussion held here earlier.
Show us a picture of your peppers! :)
and more importantly: http://www.realseeds.co.uk/whyseedsave.html
Actually, almost every seed I have tried sprouting from a grocery store has worked, the only exception being dried hot peppers in a bag of parrot treat.
My friends mum said that because store bought produce is "forced", they tend not to give good seeds...
I don't know if there is any truth in that, or I just have the knack of killing everything I try to grow. Maybe one of our green fingered friends could comment.
If it depends on the treatment you give them: try dividing your seedlings in groups and putting them in different places/watering conditions/soil mixtures; whichever survives and bears fruit is the way to grow something at our home :)
About your question:
What happens when you use seeds from bought vegetables is that you don't know what will come out, it cuold be that the vegetable in question has been polinated by another species. Sometimes the result may be interesting.
A pack of seeds is not really expensive and you are sure of the species that will grow out of them
(If you sow half the seeds the rest of the packet is there as a backup system)
Put the pot in a water tray on a brick or two.
Keep the tray filled with water and the ants will be unable to swim accross. Unless you have particularly clever ants who build bridges. They do exist...
Otherwise you can use ant killer
Or permiculture approach would be to plant more ghost chilis!
I grow them to make green tomato chutney, about 15 to 2 kg of tomato, essential in the recipe but not to much.
How long we're your pepper plants in those little pots? your plants may be root bound. (roots all growing together in a tight ball) As soon as possible take your plants out of the pots and plant in the garden to avoid this, as it will stunt your plants. and don't fertilize until you have fruit then" let em have it" otherwise all the fertilizer will go to the foliage(leaves & Stems)and sometimes you will get no fruit at all! Fertilize one time when you plant them, then not again till you get little peppers about a 1/2" long, and full sun for peppers.water as needed
"Those little pots" were all I had at the time...
It is best for plants to have (root)space to strive in, it just happens to be that I lack space, a plot of earth and big pots.
I have a crop that suffices for our needs in those pots and since we have a lot of the sun around here, I have had the same plants growing and producing for two years in a row! The summercrop was a bit small and curly but in the fall we had nice, big, straight ones. I dried about 30 of them, for later use.