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Morning all,


Where can I buy a chilli plant in ED? Im feeling the need to be a bit more 'mother earth' and whilst I am not lucky enough to have an allotment (nor the time to tend to one) and not sure the other residents would appreciate me digging up the communal garden I thought a chilli plant on my windowsill in the kitchen would be ideal!


Any suggestions would be warmly welcomed! No pun intended.. >:D<


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@ B - two of my favourites things I will have to get my butt down to the garden centre this month and get meself some pots and little plants.. How long has it taken for them to finally start to flower?


@SM - cool site thank you! There is a chilli festival in London - may have to drag jaws along to that one! :))

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Henry, our chilli plant, I fear might be dying. Rather over zealous pruning from a well meaning friend has meant that he no longer has leaves or flowers, his branches are still greenish but haven't really grown back. He used to be so good and healthy, we inherited him from some friends who emigrated and I do want him to survive, any tips from chilli plant owners or am I just watering Henry's corpse?
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Strawbs Wrote:

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> @ B - two of my favourites things I will have to

> get my butt down to the garden centre this month

> and get meself some pots and little plants.. How

> long has it taken for them to finally start to

> flower?



About 6 weeks.

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Hannah, your well meaning friend is generally not wrong with Chilli plants. You can hack them back to a stub and they'll still grow back, don't give the pruning another thought.


Mockney kills plants by overwatering. Too much love and the roots rot. He doesn't really take a pleasure in murder, it's just he over-compensates for his angst when in a social environment.


Make sure you've got proper drainage from the pot and give it some real verbal. Chilli plants don't like Mozart, they like aggro. Have a look at this.

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A really cheeky tip...


Each year, we get a new chilli plant. The seeds we get are from supermarket chilli's. So all you need to do when you're chopping your supermarket (or any other) chilli is scrape the seeds out, put to one side, propogate and watch it grow.


Much cheaper than buying a plant from a garden centre. And you can do the same with peppers and tomatoes.

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