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Produce => Edible Plants => Chillies Ahoy => Topic started by: tartonterro on March 01, 2009, 17:09:15

Title: feeding chilli
Post by: tartonterro on March 01, 2009, 17:09:15

on my 3rd crop of chillies from last years plant and the plants looking a bit worse for weather, know i can use tomato feed, but nothing else needing fed just now so was thinking of using one of those drip feed bottles you push into the soil, but i dont know which to get, some are for foliage and others for flowers - any suggestions would be gratefully received.

Title: Re: feeding chilli
Post by: dtw on March 02, 2009, 08:40:26

I would go for the foliage one.

Title: Re: feeding chilli
Post by: Biscombe on March 31, 2009, 13:27:12

How about a sprinkle of guano (bird poo)? My chillies swear by it

Title: Re: feeding chilli
Post by: chriscross1966 on April 15, 2009, 14:07:53

Chillis (and other capsicums) go through magnesium at a fair old rate so you might want to stick a teaspoon of Epsom salts in with the watering every now and again....

reading the side of the chilli and pepper fertiliser I was given for my birthday it's a 4:4:12 for NPK (so a lot of potash) but has 10 for magnesium as well.....

chrisc

Title: Re: feeding chilli
Post by: littlebabybird on April 23, 2009, 22:15:07

where do i get Epsom salts and how much are they?

Title: Re: feeding chilli
Post by: daileg on May 28, 2009, 14:41:58

chemist allways stock it