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Posted by ivyhouse (U13788805) on Tuesday, 22nd June 2010
I have 3 chillies plants, nurtured from seed sown in January that are about a metre high now yet there are no signs of flowers. Is this normal ? Should I pinch them out before they get any taller. There is plenty of leaf and each plant is really bushy.
It might depend on what variety you have, I followed the generall advice and pinched out the growing tip on mine all mine at 6 leaves and they have many branches and lot's of flowers on. I also bought some that I've done nothing to and they are short and bushy looking already with flowers some have set.
Last year I grew Hungarian wax and they were tall like you describe and I never did get many to a red colour before the end of the season, but I did have plenty of them green.
sounds like too much nitrogen. A weak solution of high potash feed like tomato feed might help things along, also not too wet
soil. It's coming in sunny, with a bit of luck this will kick in the flowering.
Variety??-some chillies are not that tall,some are dwarf and some grow like Topsey.
It al just depends on the variety you are growing
Thanks for the replies folks. They are Jalapenos from a B+Q multipack. I have them in individual large pots filled with a third of a growbag each. I have some seaweed tomato feed so I'll give that a try.
you treat them exactly the same as peppers, you don't need to pinch out the growing tip it makes no difference whatsoever. what size pot do you have them in. Mine ae in ten inch pots and growing in growbag stuff.
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