Burkina Yellow Chilli Update

Burkina Yellow Chilli update 30/08/18

Absolutely gutted, I went away for a couple of days and on my return my plant looked dead. My last had been overwatered and was sat in a container full of water. I drained it and waited a few days for the soil to dry out then continued to water it properly but I think its too late. 

I will take cuttings from the main plant about 3inch big, from the bits that look alive. Each cutting needs to have at least nodes ( swellings from where leaves appear) and I will cut just below the lowest node. Then remove the lowest set of leaves, dip in rowing compound and plant. Then place the cuttings in a warm place to hopefully grow ready for fruiting next year.

Burkina Yellow update 17/05/18

Today under the leaves I noticed to my great delight a little beauty. Tucked up undertone leaves my first chilli has formed. Its only small at the moment about 1cm but its definitely there. They start life as small pale green balls before they change colour.

17/03/18

As its so cold I have been concentrating on what is growing indoors. Here my Burkina Yellow Chilli is starting to bud and all these will hopefully flower and turn into chillis, at the moment there is about 40 of these. I keep this plant on a table infant of a window that gets light all day, and the warmth from the sun and radiator. This beauty is about 40cm tall at the moment and bushes out to about 30/40cm. Last year I saved some seeds which I dried out and have planted out, but some chillis can take up to a month to germinate.