RE: [CH] Size doesn't matter

Pieters, Rob (rob.pieters@honeywell.com)
Thu, 22 Mar 2001 16:38:15 -0600 

Looks like some have different experience with pot size.
My experience is that size does influence the growth, bigger pots gives
bigger plants, that's all.
The rest is depending on how you take care of them, in all cases (pot sizes)
I got healthy plants when I gave them the right place (sun/shade), food and
water.
Specially Habanero is interesting to grow in that way, try one plant in the
smallest pot you can find, place it in a not to dry environment in normal
pot soil, and you will get a bonsai habanero... I had one last year in a
little wider than 1" pot.
Even got fruits smaller than cherry's

Rob NL


  -----Original Message-----
  From: danceswithcarp [mailto:dcombs@bloomington.in.us]
  Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 10:59 PM
  To: byron bromley; chile-heads@globalgarden.com
  Subject: [CH] Size doesn't matter
  
  
  At 09:54 PM 3/19/2001 -0500, byron bromley wrote:
  >Dale
  >
  >I think 5 gal pots are way to small for Habs.  If OH will 
  allow the space, I
  >want to try one in a 10 gal garbage can.
  >
  >In a 5 gal pot,  they are so root bound the only produce a 
  few raisin  size
  >fruits.
  
  
  Respectfullly have to de-agree:  I've been growing habs in 
  buckets and pots 
  for years.   Some of the pots have been as small as 1 quart.  
  I have never 
  had any get root-bound over the course of an Indiana summer 
  as there is 
  simply not growing time.  I also now have, maybe, 40 or 50 
  three-gallon 
  pots.  The major difference between these and the really 
  small pots is not 
  the size of the pepper but the quantity of fruit.   
  Admittedly all fruits 
  are smaller than garden-grown, but all things being equal 
  between pots 
  except size, I can't tell the difference in size.
  
  Also, for what it's wirth, the habs I get from plants from 
  Jim C's stock 
  are about twice as big as what I get from regular greenhouse 
  habs, whether 
  they are in pots or the garden it's essentially the same 
  result, his chile 
  spawn are bigger.   So my guess is that size of the pepper is 
  probably more 
  influenced by seed-stock than growing apparati.
  
  carp