Growing chillies at home

What can we plant in pot?

Inside the species of Capsicum annuum have infinite varieties, shapes and colors … There are no limits. We suggest you growing chillies or chili peppers. Jalapenos, habaneros, chilli tree, serranos … a catalog with varied levels of spiciness. These levels are measured with the scoville scale.

Care for growing chillies at home

Overall care for these peppers or chillies are very similar to many of its variations so let’s see how to succeed and enjoy both visual and organoleptic qualities. There are varieties that are better suited to pot cultivation than others. Then list some of them. For now let’s see how to grow them.

Temperatures and light

The chile is a variant of pepper, so as good Solanaceae that is, needs high lighting and heating. At home need heat and sun. Supports direct solar rays even though there is no question to burn them, because mature too early and even the fruits may suffer if too hot. Obviously fructification covers the spring and summer. Moreover, indoors have the advantage of forward sowing a little. Neither too because for flowering need enough hours of daylight.

A good substrate for a good chili

A good substrate is essential for a good chili. We need a loose soil, light, fertile, well-drained to ensure good nutrition and prevent puddling. They are quite demanding crop nutrients. Be careful with nitrogen. If excessive nitrogen nutrition may reach not flourish. If you have well-rotted compost, is a good choice for mixing. Compost or peat are other supplements for mixing with a normal substrate. Something the drainage is also important. Gravel at the bottom and some sand in the mixture of the substrate is sufficient.

Watering the chile

It is a plant with high water requirements. Irrigation frequent and moderate-abundant. Especially in the summer. In addition, the cultivation of chillies in pot may need somewhat more often to maintain a moisture level in the appropriate media. We must never swamping the substrate or wetting the leaves. Will favor the development of fungus. Remove excess water from the plate once watered.

Sowing

The sowing will be in the end of winter and must be protected in a seedbed or warm bed. With a germination temperature of 25 and a soft frequent watering ,we will have the seeds germinated in 3 weeks. When we had some plants something consistent proceed to transplantation in final container.

Chilli varieties for growing in pot

If we put all varieties that there would not finish this post in years. There are hundreds. We are going to give a few that are best are suitable for growing in pots:

• NuMex Twilight: One of the most cultivated as ornamental due to the variation of colors of fruit ripening by state. It is quite spicy.
• Aurora: Another very similar to the previous. Also very spicy and with such lived and varied colors.
• Black pearl: This is an exotic chili. The coloration of the whole plant is black and produces round black fruit that mature to red.
• Holiday Cheer: It produces very round peppers that turn from purple, yellow to red finally.
• Medusa: Another popular grown in pots. The spice level is not very high and is a plant produces a lot of chillies and yellow colors, orange colours and finally red. looks like flames.
• Jalapeño: A classic between the chiles. It tastes very good and also can be grown in pots.
• Purple Rocket: As the name suggests is a chile whose mature color is purple. Easy adadaptación for growing in pots well.
• Chile tree: Another Mexican classic with a good adpatation for pots. It is also very spicy. This is elongated becomes from green to red at maturity.