The excitement of growing plant is now totally mine. This year I started to grow chili seeds just from the chili I bought in India. And some others I got from a friend.

As I recognized I was a bit late to sprout the chili seeds. What led me to buy two small plants as well, but more on that later on.

As the more exciting thing is to sprout the seed and see the plant growing and their first leaves and finally the grown plants with fruits.

I was more or the less totally new to the growing of plants, so there was a lot try and error programed. Never the less it worked out well and at the moment I still have more than fifteen chili plants.

 Sprouts and seeds

All the sprouts sorted in a plastic box. All covered  with a wrapping film to keep it humid, otherwise it would dry out really quick.

The first green leaves

 This year I tried to put the sprouts into small turf cups.

Where to put all this small chili plants?

A frisbee used for the small pots. At first the didn’t really well, I didn’t care too well with watering and I killed many of the small ones. But lucky me, I had a view dozen more sprouts around.

 Young chili in plastic cups

My little chili “farm”

I still have sprouts/young plants – How to give them away?

I started to put this plastic cups on top of each other with the plants in it. The perfect packing for transportation

Problems with plant louses

Mainly indoor it happen that I had huge amounts of louses on all my chili plants in my flat and in my mothers greenhouse. I tried to solve it with a mix based on soft soap, but it did just work partially. If you have some good tips, I would be more than glad.

Where to put all the plants – A lot didn’t make it at the first

 

Chili Palm – in the preserve jar

Chili – The garden

 Chili harvesting

Chili-tree – From a small plant to a tree!

This are my two bought plants

Happend that this plants grew huge trees

Using the chili

Pickled chili

Slowly dried chili – keeps the colors more pure

My mom hosted me as well some space for some plants

Will I have them another year?

The last days on the terrace, it’s the middle of october now. The next thing will be to bring them in and prepare the chili for the austrian winter.

  Preparing new seeds (this ones are freshly from Mexico)

 

Finally!

keep up the chili

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