Chilli Surajmukhi - Desi Vegetable Seeds

Description

It is most important and popular vegetable. 1 packet contains approximately 35 seeds of chilli.

Seeds Specifications

Planting and care

• Chilli plants should be fairly easy to care for
• They need to be protected from frost and will do best in a sunny spot out of any cold winds or draughts
• A South or East facing windowsill or sheltered patio is idealChilli plants should be kept in a small pot
• They really don t like being over potted and will suffer from placing in to large a pot too quickly
• Most of our chilli plants shouldn t need repotting in their first year, however if you are struggling to keep up with the watering or if your plants is 3 or more times the size of it s pot then you can re-pot
• Just choose a pot that is only 2 or 3 cm bigger in diameter and use a good general purpose compost with some drainage
• Chilli plants love sunshine, they originate in South America after all, the more sunlight your plant can get on fruit, the hotter the fruit will become
• Chilli plants are greedy feeders and will benefit from feeding in the growing season
• A tomato feed, baby bio or any other high nitrogen feed will keep the leaves nice and green and keep your plant fruiting longer
• Apply in line with the manufacturers instructions every couple of weeks from July through to September

Chilli Surajmukhi care

• Plant into small pots or preferably into Jiffy coir (coconut husk) pellets
• If you are using Jiffy pellets, soak them until they have swollen to size and put two seeds into each one, just below the surface
• If you are planting into pots, fill one pot per seed type to about 2 cm below the rim, firm down the compost and soak thoroughly
• be aware that chilli seedlings quickly exhaust the nutrients in the coir
• Place the seeds with a good space between them so that you do not harm the roots when you come to potting on and cover them with a fine layer of sieved compost and coir mix
• Use separate pots or trays for each variety and don, t forget to label them or you will spend several frustrated months not knowing which plant is which

Chilli Surajmukhi special feature

pungency.

Chilli Surajmukhi uses