[CH] container growing question

John H. Sphar (jsphar@pacbell.net)
Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:58:30 -0700 (PDT)

Hi all,  my third year of growing (5 Gal containers
and 1/2 wine barrels with tons of drainage) is leaving
me frustrated.  I got seedlings from Jeannie in NJ
(mostly chinense) and a combo of locally available
plants (Thai, serrano, jalapeno) and now I'm comfused.
 I've been doing the same thing to all of them: 
Watering 1-2 per week now, I was fertilizing with fish
emulsion and kelp every 3 weeks but now none.

My chocolate hab is doing well.  But it's wierd - they
were chocoloate then went back to red...???.  But my
main prob is the red savina has no flowers, the red
scotch bonnet has two beautiful ripe pods and no other
flowers, and the white hab has one small but nice
looking pod, but no flowers.  How can I get there
chinenses to flower?

Thanks, John

PS: soon I'll be asking for tips on saving seeds. 
Maybe you all have a web page of instructions I could
visit.  But I'll get to that later.  Adios, John S.