pots

best size plant pots for chillies, cheers fil7

will 4 or 5 litre do for a final pot, cheers fil7

any advice please, cheers fil7

Depends. If you're doing soil the general rule is the bigger the pot the bigger the plant (within reason). BUT if you live in a cold climate with a short growing season you may not be able to get the soil to dry out enough to for the plants to wilt before the next watering. I had this problem with all of my chilli's from Habs and hotter. I had fantastic sized plants in 5 gallon buckets, but they had no heat. Although the smaller pots produced smaller plants and less pots, the pods were way hotter.

I'm going to try out a few ideas with Coco and see how it goes.

Neil

I've got 6 in net pots, ebb and grow system. did pretty well. loooots of jalapenos!

so will 5 litre & 7.5 litre pots do, cheers fil7

What type of medium/system are you going to grow in? Soil? Coco? Eb and grow system like Growstess?

I am growing in soil, cheers fil7

I guess at the end of the day I'd have to say, "it depends". Yeah that's a non-answer, but here's why. I'm in a cold climate. We have a 90 day grow season. I start all plants indoors January/February depending on the 'time to harvest'. Previously all chilie plants have been in Jiffy peat pellets. After they sprout and grow for a bit I'd peel the mesh off the peat pellets and put them into good draining soil in 4" diameter pots. I'd keep them under fluro's and pot them up when the plants start to get root bound. I never really have a final pot size in mind. I'd keep potting up when they got root bound. Just be sure that whatever pot size you end up with over time is sufficient enough that it allows you to water it and let it dry out to the point where the plant wilts.