Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Growing in Greenhouses & Polytunnels => Topic started by: samnorfolk on October 06, 2014, 12:36
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With the past few days getting colder shall i move my chilli plants indoors
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If they still have unripe fruit on and/or you are hoping to overwinter them for next year, I suggest 'yes'.
I only grow cayenne peppers now, and from a Feb sowing they are now on their 2nd flush of fruit, although they've never been kept anywhere other than a south facing window in a spare bedroom (the previous ones did 4 years and fruited all year round, although needless to say they did slow down a bit in winter.)
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Yes, I dug up, potted and brought in, my sweet peppers and 1 chilli at the weekend.
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I generally bin mine and start fresh next year :blush:
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:D but they generally give bigger yields, in their 2nd & 3rd years, if you do have space the to keep them alive over winter.
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From 4 chilli plants and 6 sweet pepper plants have harvested enough to keep me going for about 5 years. I grow them in the green house. I probably won't grow them next year.
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Yes, I dug up, potted and brought in, my sweet peppers and 1 chilli at the weekend.
MOS - I have two sweet pepper plants that are still doing well in the greenhouse - is there anything in particular that I can do to help them survive the winter. I have never succeeded in doing so before.
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Mine don't survive in the greenhouse border, that's why I bring them indoors......I tried under a layer of fleece, and under a layer of polythene, but neither worked :(
I just dig them up - and pot them in a tomato sized pot. I prune the branches back to just above where they've forked, and leave them in front of the window in the spare bedroom; they get watered just enough to keep them alive, which means when I remember to :lol: .
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Ahhh - the penny has dropped. :lol: I thought you meant inside the greenhouse - will have to think about this one. :)
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Mine don't survive in the greenhouse border, that's why I bring them indoors......I tried under a layer of fleece, and under a layer of polythene, but neither worked :(
I just dig them up - and pot them in a tomato sized pot. I prune the branches back to just above where they've forked, and leave them in front of the window in the spare bedroom; they get watered just enough to keep them alive, which means when I remember to :lol: .
Is it an unheated GH? I'm looking to get a small parasene heater to keep the frost out...
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Mumofstig - Can you explain the pruning. Do you mean you chop them right back?
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To about this size ;)
(http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt755mInqD1qfmifq.jpg)
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Im a little more brutal than MoS.
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Lordy, if I do that to them they die. 100% success rate at that. I do a bit of trimming but otherwise leave them be.
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Im a little more brutal than MoS.
O M G :ohmy: