[CH] Chile plant source in the UK

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I have found a source of mail order chile plants that I thought might 
interest the UK CH's.

Marshall's Seeds have started selling a chile collection of small 
starter plants. It contains 5 each of :

Hungarian Hot Wax
Jalapeno
Thai Dragon
Habanero

The cost is UKP 8.95 for the 20 plants. They post them out in late
April. To get a catalogue their 'phone number is 01945 466 711.

Their address is :

S.E.Marshall and Co Ltd
FREEPOST
Wisbech
Cambridgeshire
PE13 2BR

I still haven't cleared the rubble from the area that will be my
greenhouse so I'm going to have to pass on the little plants but it
looks like a reasonable deal to me. I tried Scotch Bonnets outdoors a
couple of years ago and didn't get any fruit until just before the
frosts. So it's going to have to be the old reliable Cayenne
(Johnson's Seeds) and Fresno (5th generation from my garden) again
I'm afraid.

To Andrew Healy who asked about saving seed from supermarket Thai
Hot chiles. Andrew, you will need a greenhouse in my experience. I
grew them outdoors on overwintered plants. The first year I got no
fruit at all. Last year, like the Scotch Bonnets, I  only got fruit
right at the end of the season. And it was tiny, unlike the parent
chiles which were 30 -50 mm long. So maybe the parent plant was grown
from F1hybrid seed and it didn't come true to type.

cheers,

David


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