A few pods

So a few more weeks gone, plus a little improvement in the weather and I'm starting to see a few pods appear. 

Most plants have now some level of flowers appearing, with only a few exceptions, and a couple of the over-wintered plants that were a little stunted have got going at last - whether this will be too little, too late remains to be seen. But it's something to watch. 

I'm getting a little greenfly from time to time, but a quick squirt of ultimate bug killer and all is well.

The really big plants are the Marouga Yellow, the Tepin and the Mini Rocoto, but everything seems to be benefitting from the improved weather and temperatures of late. We've not had a crazy hot summer as yet, but we are at least getting a little sun from time to time. 

I have a few jobs to do (weeding and cutting back) around the back of the greenhouse, but these are not major problems yet. 

I'm now feeding several time a week with low doses of chilli focus, it seems to be working with no signs yet of over-feeding.

So a few photos of the greenhouse and the varieties with pods to date:

Mustard Hab growing out from the centre of the flower

Marouga Yellow

Mystery 6 - some sort of chinense, maybe a long podded hab of some sort

Mystery 2 - an upright podded annum. Not a PC1 or superchili though.

Micro Fatalii pods - including my first ripe pod of the year!

CAP 267, these pods started by growing upwards, but then swung down with the weight.

A 7-pod pretending to be a trinidad scorpion :-)

A little update

So with the weather conspiring against me (will it ever stop raining properly), it was nice to see a good spell of sun at the end of May. This really got the plants going at long last, although I suspect I am a good few weeks behind where I was last year. 

Good news - most of the plants are now in flower. I've sorted out the greenhouse, potted on the last few stragglers and made space for chilli central. I now have one or two other (non-chilli) plants to find homes for. I have pods appearing on a few varieties now (Cap 253c, CGN 21500 & Fatalii to name but a few). They are small pods, typical of early season, but it's a start. 

Bad news - many of the over-wintered plants seem stunted. The Mustard Hab, 7 pod & Naga Morich are barely moving. Hopefully they'll put on a spurt, but maybe not. By comparison the Fatalii, Tepin and Marouga Yellow are going great guns. So maybe it's a 50:50 thing. 

Anyway a few random photos, the labels tell you what's what. Let's hope for some better weather.

Some of the plants from the greenhouse waiting to be re-homed