Plant green chillies yourself

What you need:

• Seeds
• Cultivation vessel
• Potting soil
• teaspoon
• possibly Ice cream sticks
• Flower pots
• Potting soil
• Tomato fertilizer
• Flower sprayer

Select chilli varieties according to the degree of spiciness you want

1. Chilies are divided into degrees of heat from 1-10. Sweet peppers are hot, habanero chillies are hot. Chilli varieties such as Thai hot or Cayenne, which are offered as green and red fruits in the supermarket, are between 7 and 9.
2. On the Internet, e.g. B. on "balkonchili.de" you will find sufficient information about the names, the appearance and the degree of spiciness of the selected varieties.
3. You can get a large selection of seeds and very inexpensive on eBay.

How to grow chillies from seeds

1. Since chillies need a lot of light for healthy development, you should start growing them at the end of January at the earliest. If a plant has too little light, it will be long and unstable.
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2. As a growing container you can use plastic bowls, e.g. B. Use meat or ice cream packaging. Fill approx. 4-5 cm of potting soil and press it lightly.


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3. Then place the chili seeds on the ground so that the distance is not less than 5 cm. If you want to attract different varieties, you can put the individual varieties in a row and mark the rows with plastic tags. Alternatively, you can draw a plan on which you note the varieties.
4. Cover the chili seeds with an approx. 0.5 cm thick layer of potting soil and carefully moisten it with a flower sprayer.
5. Cover the seed container with a plastic wrap or a plastic lid and keep it very warm. Chilies need a temperature of approx. 22-25 degrees in the earth.
6. When the first seedlings appear after a few days, you need to remove the cover so that there is no rot. Now keep the plants always moist and leave approx. 5 cm high.

This is how healthy green young plants are pricked out

1. When your plants have reached a height of 5 cm, they need to be pricked out. H. be isolated and transplanted. To do this, prepare flower pots or yoghurt pots by adding good potting soil.
2. Now use a teaspoon or an ice cream stick to prick the individual plants out of the growing container. Please work very carefully here so that as few roots as possible are damaged or torn off.
3. Now place the young plants in the prepared cups. The stalk can be stuck in the ground until just under the first leaves.
4. From now on, the chillies have to be a little cooler but very light until they can move to the open ground after the last night frosts in mid-May.
5. If you do not put the plants in the garden, but on the balcony or the terrace want to grow, you should use planters of at least 5, better 10 ltr. Choose capacity. This is the only way to provide the plants with sufficient nutrition.
6. Chilies are heavy eaters and therefore have to be fertilized once a week. Commercially available tomato fertilizer is suitable.

Enjoy ripe fruits in winter

1. If you still have green chilies on the plants in late autumn, when the first frosts are to be expected, you can harvest and consume them. Alternatively, you can check the plants for vermin and then put them indoors. This is where the fruits ripen.
2. If you want to overwinter the plants, you need to put them in a cool and light place. Regularly moistening with a flower sprayer can prevent aphid infestation.
3. In late winter, the plants have to be cut back a long way before they sprout again. Wintered, well-cared for plants produce more chillies in the second year than in the first.