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[Boombang]

Does anyone near me want cuttings or chillis? I've got limited space and my whole kitchen windowsill is covered at the moment. Want to get a few of the larger plants gone and start with some new smaller cuttings, see if I can train the new plants into a better shape for the kitchen! Plants are Prarie fire (little 30cm high, look like small bushes, chillies are green/yellow, go orange then deep red, pretty hot - very quick growers and nice looking plants with very high yield) and tabasco (not had any fruit yet as plants only started flowering recently, plants are tall with big leaves but not that attractive).

Edited by Boombang, 25 October 2009 - 11:02 AM.

[siztenboots]

Does anyone near me want cuttings or chillis?

I've got limited space and my whole kitchen windowsill is covered at the moment. Want to get a few of the larger plants gone and start with some new smaller cuttings, see if I can train the new plants into a better shape for the kitchen!

once you have taken the harvest and there are no more fruits forming, you can just trim them back to 5/6" of stubby stem and put them in to a much smaller pot trimming roots as you go , they will be quite happy being dormant , waiting for Spring and you will get a much bigger harvest from its 2nd and 3rd year

[Boombang]

Ta for that, didn't even occur to me! That'd certainly make the plants more manageable - the first cutting I took grew really well but it's stayed low to the soil level and finding it hard to grow upwards - imagine a chillie and spider plant cross. Only issue is when the Prairie Fire stop bloody fruiting, am on my third decent crop this year, with constant odd 5-10 fruits in between.