Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: stickmeup on May 27, 2014, 08:54
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Morning all
First time I've grown chilli's from seed, wasnt getting anything from the until I bough a cheap heated propagator and now they are doing great, question is, what do I do next??
Got a few different varities, seen that I need to take them out of the prop once they have a second set of leaves on, but where do I put them, would they be ok to go into the greenhouse or do they need to stay indoors? Reason I ask is I have a cat which demolishes anything green in the house lol, and I dont want to put them out straight away and end up killing them
Any help would be appreciated :)
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My peppers are out in the unheated greenhouse, but I am a lot further south than you. They need to stay at a decent temperature to keep going, so if you are getting overnight temperatures of under 10 degrees C, I would keep them inside and protect them from the cat.
The tin foil reflectors often recommended on here would be quite good at keeping the cat off. Basically a cardboard screen covered with foil, behind the plants on the windowsill, to make sure they get light from all sides. I make mine with a cardboard lip that goes under a plastic rectangular trough saucer and then sit my pots on that :)