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mickeyboy

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chilli seedlings?
« on: February 21, 2010, 13:15 »
Hi all I have just germinated various types of hot chilli seeds in my heated propagator. They were starting to get a bit leggy so i pulled them out and stuck in 3" pots. What i was wondering is where is the best place to grow them on indoors? I always seem to have problems with leggy seedlings if i put them on windowsill.

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Re: chilli seedlings?
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2010, 13:20 »
Your lightest (preferably south-facing) windows sill is the lightest place there is so you don't have much choice. DD is probably sick of saying this by now so I'll say it for him; putting an aluminium foil "mirror" behind the plants in the window sill will greatly increase the amount of light they receive.
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Re: chilli seedlings?
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2010, 14:26 »
Thanks JayG.

Actually I've got around the problem of repeating myself, all I need to say now is "you must have missed this sticky"

http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=49569.0
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Re: chilli seedlings?
« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2010, 14:43 »
Thanks peeps i had already read that :tongue2: :tongue2:

Just wasn't sure wether this would help the leggys now or not....

Thanks peeps :) :)
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« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2010, 15:08 »
I always plant leggy chilli's or tomato's almost up to the seed leaves, curling the stem round carefully in the new pot. It usually works, might lose one or two if the stem breaks in the move, but it if far better than leggy seedlings IMHO
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