Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Nobbie on April 06, 2021, 11:05
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I’m trying aubergines for the first time this year with Jewel Jet F1 which is a smaller fruited variety. After reading how they take a while to germinate and need a long season I sowed them 3rd week of Jan, only for them to be coming through in a couple of weeks and then growing strongly under LED lighting. This morning I find one of them has flowered already ???
What are others experiences with aubergines? I suspect I should remove the flowers and let the plant get bigger before fruiting as there is plenty of time for them to mature?
I have no idea why this site posts my photos upside down, I even turn the original upside down and posted it again to no avail :nowink:
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Lucky you, I'd pinch out the flowers and the growing tip to make them grow bushy.
They are slow to germinate and grow, if you don't have the 'luxury' of growing under lights :D
Sorry, I've no idea about the pics either ::)
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I have no idea why this site posts my photos upside down, I even turn the original upside down and posted it again to no avail :nowink:
If you used an I-phone to take the pics with the volume button facing upwards (as most people do) the picture is actually recorded upside down, but the digital file created contains information which tells photo-viewing software to turn it the right way up.
Unfortunately, the software this forum uses doesn't recognise this information, so the only way you can post your pictures the right way up is to shoot the pics with the volume button facing down (I know, I know, don't shoot me I'm only the messenger!) :lol:
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I have no idea why this site posts my photos upside down, I even turn the original upside down and posted it again to no avail :nowink:
If you used an I-phone to take the pics with the volume button facing upwards (as most people do) the picture is actually recorded upside down, but the digital file created contains information which tells photo-viewing software to turn it the right way up.
Unfortunately, the software this forum uses doesn't recognise this information, so the only way you can post your pictures the right way up is to shoot the pics with the volume button facing down (I know, I know, don't shoot me I'm only the messenger!) :lol:
Thanks, that has stopped me thinking I’m going mad :(
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I usually post pictures from my iPhone and I just go into edit on the picture and turn them right round in a circle and save.
It usually looks exactly the same as when you started, but as you are viewing them with the volume button facing up, the phone twigs that that is the right way up and posts them they way you want.
It will show you the picture on the phone the right way up whatever way you hold it, so that is no clue to the actual orientation the phone has it on.
Makes sense :wacko: Thought not, but it works for me :lol:
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I couldn’t bear to remove the flowers, so I now have a baby aubergine :D
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Blue ribbon to you for what has to be the earliest aubergine in the UK this year! :D
It is warm here, but mine are still small, nowhere near producing fruit.
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Mine are budding up inside on the windowsill, but nowhere near fruiting yet.
I have got a couple of pointy peppers already through, plus a mini chilli pepper plant loaded with flower. There are fruits forming, but they are birds eye sized when fully grown, so barely visible at the moment :lol:
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Mine are budding up inside on the windowsill, but nowhere near fruiting yet.
I have got a couple of pointy peppers already through, plus a mini chilli pepper plant loaded with flower. There are fruits forming, but they are birds eye sized when fully grown, so barely visible at the moment :lol:
They look really healthy, my Apache chillis have usable green fruits on them, but the plants seem to have stopped growing. Knocked one out of it’s pot and it hadn’t rooted any further from when I repotted it last. Seem to remember them doing something similar last year. Maybe they need more warmth.
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my Apache chillis have usable green fruits on them, but the plants seem to have stopped growing. Knocked one out of it’s pot and it hadn’t rooted any further from when I repotted it last. Seem to remember them doing something similar last year. Maybe they need more warmth.
Maybe. It does sound like they have just paused for a while. What about providing heat from the base of the pot? Have you got a propagator heated base you could try?
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My sweet banana peppers are in bud, but the jalapenos are still too small.
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my Apache chillis have usable green fruits on them, but the plants seem to have stopped growing. Knocked one out of it’s pot and it hadn’t rooted any further from when I repotted it last. Seem to remember them doing something similar last year. Maybe they need more warmth.
Maybe. It does sound like they have just paused for a while. What about providing heat from the base of the pot? Have you got a propagator heated base you could try?
No electric to the greenhouse yet, so hopefully they’ll buck up as the temperature rise.
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Hello just keep the flowers on give the Aubergine plants a good feed of quarter strength tomato feed, dont water over the top it rots the fruit ,if you are watering the peppers every day it can make the plants lazy and not want to put their roots down the pot,ease off the watering when they look dry put the plants in a tray of warm water and let them soak it up from under neath the roots will make for the water jezza