Pepper Basket of Fire
Pack of 3 Garden Ready 6cm Peat PotsFREE delivery on orders over £60
Quick Facts:
- Supplied as: Pack of 3 Garden Ready 6cm Peat Pots
- Height: 30cm (12")
- Position: Full Sun
- Product Code: 310117
FREE delivery on orders over £60
Quick Facts:
- Supplied as: Pack of 3 Garden Ready 6cm Peat Pots
- Height: 30cm (12")
- Position: Full Sun
- Product Code: 310117
Chilli pepper baskt of fire plug plants. A very attractive variety with multicoloured fruit, from yellows, oranges and reds. These plug plants are Ideal for growing on the windowsill, in the greenhouse or on a sheltered patio. Height 30cm, spread 60cm. Scoville rating of 80,000 shu.
Or buy as part of our Hot Pepper (Chilli) Collection.
Free delivery on orders over £60! Terms and conditions apply **
For any order under £60 we charge £5.95 postage and package per delivery week selected on your order.
We use a number of couriers to ship our orders to you. When your Parcel leaves us, you will receive an email confirmation of the courier your order is going with and associated tracking numbers for the order. If your parcel is to be delivered by Amazon Shipping, Evri, Yodel, Royal Mail or Parcel Force you will receive further emails from them about your delivery.
We are the only online plug plants supplier to offer a choice of a specific dispatch week for your order. When placing your order, use the drop down box above to select your required dispatch week. You can also alter dispatch week in the shopping basket (multiple week deliveries could incur postage charges - see further information here - please click here).
All our plug plants are shipped in specially designed packaging to keep the root system in place and the foliage protected in transit.
We are unfortunately currently unable to ship plants to Northern Ireland or International customers.
| Product Code | 310117 |
|---|---|
| Supplied as | Pack of 3 Garden Ready 6cm Peat Pots |
| Suitable for Hanging Baskets? | No |
| Suitable for Patio Containers? | Yes |
| Scented? | No |
| Botanical name | Capsicum annuum |
| Season | spring |
| Planting Position | Full Sun |
| Eventual Height | 30cm (12") |
| Eventual Spread | 60cm |
| Harvesting Period | July to October |
| Spacing | 30cm (12") |
Size guide -Pack of 3 Garden Ready 6cm Peat Pots
You will receive a pack of 3 x 6cm garden ready plants that are in Jiffy Biodegradable pots where no extra potting on is needed. You just plant these straight into your hanging baskets or pots and watch them flourish. These are at stronger stage than plug plants. Compost volume is around 6cm deep x 6cm square (at widest part). The foliage height will vary upon variety. *PLEASE NOTE* Image is for illustration purposes only.
Peppers and chillies are brilliant for growing in pots or in growbags outside in a sunny sheltered spot and they will flourish in the warmth of a greenhouse or windowsill too.
- If you are growing your chillies and peppers outside, they will need to be potted on individually first and then hardened off for a week or two to acclimatise to outdoor temperatures before planting out after the last frosts.
- Plant into large pots (at least 30cms in diameter) on a sunny patio in multi-purpose compost or into the veg patch.
- Pinch out the growing tips of chilli peppers when they about 20cms high. This will encourage more side shoots which will in turn make a bushier plant producing more chillies.
- Bell peppers (Celica) are best left without pinching out the tips as this will delay fruiting.
- Feed with a liquid tomato fertiliser or similar, that is high in potash to encourage plenty of flowers and fruits to form.
- As the weather turns colder towards the end of the season, cover plants grown outside with fleece at night to help the fruits to ripen fully.
- If you are growing chillies and peppers inside, on a windowsill, in a conservatory or greenhouse they will benefit from being potted on in a general-purpose compost until they are big enough to be planted into a 30cms pot. Pinch out the shoots, as before.
- Indoor grown chillies will probably need pollinating by hand, which is easy and fun to do.
- Brush pollen from one flower to another with a small paintbrush or cotton bud once the flowers appear. This will help the fruits set.
- Feed regularly throughout the growing season with a liquid tomato fertiliser.
- Damping down the greenhouse with water to keep the air humid, helps to keep deter red spider mite. This also helps with tomato plants too.
Special requirements - Water pepper and chilli plants at the base and not with a watering can sprinkler as this can cause the fruits to rot.