Throughout building this blog site and interacting with other keen chilli growers, I came across the ChilliGrow sold by Greenhouse Sensation. I have heard endless good reviews of this product and wanted to try it out for myself to boost my grow your own chili crop. So I have decided to put the chilli grow to the test! The ChilliGrow is designed together with the chilefoundry and also south Deavon chilli farm so already it has the seal of approval from two great groups who know their chilli.
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| Feeder Mat |
Watering chilli plants correctly is hard even when you know what you are doing. The ChilliGrow does this for you using a 7 Litre water reservoir.
The three 6 litre pots looked quite big to me but the website assures me that this is the idea size to encourage both root and fruit growth. A nice touch is that the try is also drip proof so you can grow inside if you are restricted for space or perhaps in your greenhouse if you have one too.
The pots each have holes at the base to put through feeder mats that dip into the reservoir below. These will ensure that your plan remains perfectly watered.
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| Chilli Nutrients |
In the pack you will also receive so real easy instructions and also some chili plant some nutrients to last you one season.
To see how good the good the chilligrow is and what it could do for my crops I have selected three different chilli plants. A Hungarian Hot Wax, Jalapeno and a Krakatoa.
The Hungarian Hot Wax is store bought from B&Q, the Jalapeno is home grown and finally my Krakatoa chilli plant is in its third year and has produced bumper crops the previous two years. What will happen??? I will let you know. Below is a picture of all three plants at of June 2011.
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With all this "science" around these days, are we in danger of taking some of the fun out of gardening??? "When I were a lad, we used to grow chillis in a paper bag in middle of t'road..." :)
ReplyDeleteI agree, there is a charm about the plant and see method.
ReplyDeleteBut I may buy this and give it a whirl as i'm currently introducing my youngest 2 children to the wonders of home grown fruit and veg.
Give it a try so far it appears to be working well. The plants are very healthy and still working on root growth so not gaining any height worthy of a photo update yet. Good luck :)
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