Feeding Chillies - ?

[ellkebe]

Chillies have started to appear on my chilli plants  :)  Should I be feeding as well as watering now to help them along - and if so, what with?  I've got tomato feed for the tomatoes, so would that be any use?
Thanks  :)

[ellkebe]

[Jill]

I feed mine once a week with tomato feed, water daily and spray with water a couple of times a week once chillies start forming and they seem to like it :)

[ellkebe]

That's brilliant Jill - didn't know about the spray.  I'll start that regime tomorrow.  Shame I don't like chilli - but OH loves it :)

[ajb]

Hi ellkebe,

Chillies don't need much feeding! We only feed ours after they have started to really produce chillies and use a 1/2 recommended strength organic tomato fertiliser, since what they want is the potash for fruit and flowers, rather than nitrogen, which will produce leaves at the expense of flowers!

Best of luck with your chilli production!
A.

[Jill]

Oops sorry elkebe, meant to say half strength tomato feed as Shug has stated.  Good luck.

[ellkebe]

Many thanks Shug and Jill  :)

[swainclubber]

its a bit off-topic, but my habanero chilli got its first flowers the other day.And the first one to open has completely fallen off (including stalk), after opening everyday for a few days.

Is this normal, or are all my flowers likely to drop off.

cheers

[David R]

not fertilised.

try spraying with water, also, put them where bees or other insects can pollinate. Alternatively hand pollinate with a cotton bud, preferably between 2 separate plants.

you will get chillies, so keep at it.

[swainclubber]

cheers.So its nothing to do with night-time temperatures etc?It is kept in a conservatory at night, and they get kinda cool!

[weedgrower]

i use chempack no 8 which is a high potash feed-hope this helps

[swainclubber]

does anybody know if aphids attack chilli plants?Thanks

[Doris_Pinks]

They attack mine, seems my slugs like em too!

[djbrenton]

The poorer the growing medium and the more you neglect chillis the hotter they are. One year I forgot some chilli plants in the shed till January and they were full of the hottest ( unwatered ) chillis ever.

[swainclubber]

haha sounds good..how did they get pollinated?a few flies in the shed?i saw some chillies growing in corfu, they looked neglected too but it had some nice peppers on it :D