Growing Peppers and Chillies from Seed
Growing your own Chillies and Peppers is easy and fun.
- Plant your ‘FASTGROW’ seeds .5 to 1 cm deep and about 2 cm apart in a well draining seed raising mix in small pots or seedling trays
- Keep moist.
- In a couple of weeks seedlings should begin to emerge. Sprinkle on an organic fertiliser, or a liquid fertiliser for veggies.
- When the seedlings are about 10cm, plant out into your veggie patch or large pots, at about 30cm spacings.
- The small, generally white flowers are very attractive to bees and fruit setting rates are usually good. The peppers/chillies can be picked as soon as they are large enough for you. They start out green and then ripen through to red, with any heat usually increasing during this ripening process.
- Peppers/Chillies are short lived perennial plants that can keep producing for up to five or so years. In areas with severe winters the plants may die, thus should be treated as annuals. In regions with mild winters the plants will die back somewhat, then continue growing the following spring. Plants can be pruned back in late autumn to promote vigorous spring growth.