Reweed Allotment Blog

A few pictures of my 3 Bhut Jolokia Plants and my large Fatalli plant.

I removed the side branches of all the plants early on in growth to encourage upward growth but the last few weeks of nice weather really made the plants branch out.

Few pictures today of how my toms/chillies are getting on.

Most of my chilli plants are still only about 9inches high, not sure why as this time last year they were much taller. I’ve been pulling off the flower buds for a while on the smaller plants, leaving them to grow on the 2 large Ring of Fire plants. They are slowly turning into my favourite type of chilli.

Lazy bastard.

I ment to post this some time in January when I planted my chilli seeds. Now at least 2 months down the line i’m finally updating it.

These are the chilli varieties i’m growing this year:

• Ring of Fire – Grew these last year, last minute and they totally rocked. Got some more free seeds this year, so making sure I have at least 5 or 6 plants of these.
• Bhut Jolokia – Hottest chilli in the world… Having some of that.
• Fatalli – Super Hot African chilli. Germinated about 5 seeds, all are growing much slower than the rest of my plants.
• Super Hot Thai – The name says it all. hhhhheeeeeyyyyyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh.
• Espanola – Medium hot, growing these to make some chilli ristras for Christmas presents.
• Birds Eye – None of the 10 seeds I had germinated. Knobs.
• Joes Long – Last year these grew to about 20cm. I want them longer this year, although I only planted the seeds 2 weeks ago.
• Hinklehatz Yellow – Going to pickle these.

Most of the seeds were germinated in rockwool cubes, some were put in seedling compost and some into peat seed plugs. Germinating in rockwool 90% of seeds came through within 2 weeks. Still unsure if peat plugs are worth the 5p they cost.

I have since potted most plants into compost, about 6 have gone into DWC hydroponics to see if I can get big ass mutant plants like last year.

That. Is. All.