PLATINUMVFT Posted October 3, 2007 Report Share Posted October 3, 2007 The problem is that the first flower it has openned about 4 days ago and I attempted to polonate it, I swabed (Gently) in the flower, as it was the plants first ever flower there were no others open so I polonated only that flower with its own polen, then to day I just touched the flower just barley making contact with it and the flower fell off, that was this morning, so I just got back to it at 15:45 and I looked at the flower stem, and to my plesent surprise there was a tiny chili growing, so I zoomed in a bit (moved my head closer and rested the stem on my finger) for a closer look and The whole stalk dropped off!! I was shocked Why in the hell did it fall off, the plant has about 8 flower buds overall and 2 will open by saturday, it was definatly a chili becase after it dropped off i crushed the tiny chili to make sure and it was definatly a chili. Why woulld the plant abandon the chili? please assist I dont want it to happen again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Aidan Posted October 3, 2007 Report Share Posted October 3, 2007 You failed to successfully pollinate the flower. What you will have crushed was the unpollinated ovary, which had it been pollinated would have developed into a fruit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PLATINUMVFT Posted October 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2007 Aaaaaaaah shall I pollinate the two flowers which will open? and how would I do this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loakesy Posted October 3, 2007 Report Share Posted October 3, 2007 www.howtopollenateachili.com Failing that there must be something on the internet which will help. Have a look, you might surprise yourself! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob-Rah Posted October 4, 2007 Report Share Posted October 4, 2007 However, with the daylight fading now and winter coming on you will be extremely lucky to see any fruit ripening! I start my chillis and peppers off from seed in late Feb and they are fruiting by mid summer. They need warmth and decent light Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PLATINUMVFT Posted October 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2007 However, with the daylight fading now and winter coming on you will be extremely lucky to see any fruit ripening! I start my chillis and peppers off from seed in late Feb and they are fruiting by mid summer. They need warmth and decent light Well I started the seeds in febuary but neglected them as I didnt know that I needed to repot them, so It was pratically dead with one leaf and an extremely thin stem, so I repotted it late, thus resulting in a late crop, Im still surprised how good its doing considering it was near death, but it does have some brown down at the bottom of the stem nearest to the soil, what is this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pulsar Posted October 5, 2007 Report Share Posted October 5, 2007 if you have the plant in a greenhouse or polytunnel you may still get more fruit the only problem with peppers they take a long time to start producing fruit normally just as the weather starts cooling down.peppers are self-fertile so there is no need to pollinate youself,but if you have more than 1 plant and a few varietys of each cross pollination will give you a better crop rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PLATINUMVFT Posted October 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2007 if you have the plant in a greenhouse or polytunnel you may still get more fruit the only problem with peppers they take a long time to start producing fruit normally just as the weather starts cooling down.peppers are self-fertile so there is no need to pollinate youself,but if you have more than 1 plant and a few varietys of each cross pollination will give you a better croprob If they are self-fertile then why did myne fail to self polinate? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest johnny Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 Hello PLATINUMVFT You're a bit late in the season to get any fruit this year, but you may be able to overwinter it as chillis grow as perrenials in warm climates. The best chilli website in the world is http://www.chillisgalore.co.uk/ You can learn everything about growing chillis from the forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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