Building lighting using Envirolite 200W energy saving lamp, E40 base and a reflector bought from Viherpeukku (www.viherpeukku.com)

I wrote an article conserning my growing light and it's assembly.

Go read it at our Technobabble-section!

Juha's start

This was the first start for my chillies. The picture is taken more than one year ago and those small things are plants of Lemon Drop and Bolivian Rainbow. They didn't make it. I propably made all the possible mistakes there are: not enough light, more than enough water and so on... After getting nothing done I let go of growing chillies until October 2007. A good friend of mine, a co-founder of this block, Harri, was interested in growing chillies. I had some Lemon Drops in my freezer and gave him some seeds from them. He dried to get them growing with poor results (seeds were propably damaged when they were frozen). He didn't give up and ordered some more seeds from Fatalii.net and other places. His madness towards these plants had an influence on me so I decided to order some seeds also - This time I wanted to do it the right way.

After couple of visits in Viherpeukku and some reasearch from the web and a little bit of building now I'm waiting for my first small harvest. The current state of my chillies is shown in a picture below.

Harri's start

THIS is where it started for me. I had some storebought chileplants in my past, most of which died from overwatering or cold air, but these are the first chiles I've grown from seeds and they all are still alive!

Of course it's a good way to start by buying a greenhouse grown chile, but it doesn't give the same kind of satisfaction as growing your own chiles from seeds.

In the picture there's two Cheyenne's (C. annuum), one Dutch chile (C. annuum), two Piri-piris (C. annuum) and one Naga Morich (C. chinense). Cheyenne seeds I got from a greenhouse grown plant, dutch chile seeds are from chiles sold in local supermarkets, piri-piri seeds are from chiles that came with a Jamie Oliver mortal and pestle and the Naga Morich seeds I ordered from Fatalii.

There are many good seedsellers on the web, and maybe we'll start selling seeds sometime in the near future.

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So here it begins! Our voyage in the world of chiles!
Welcome! Enjoy! Stay for a while!

Later on we'll try to include some of our own experiences in the field of chile growing.

Growing chiles is a learning process and a very rewarding one as well.

If you want to be happy for a day, get drunk.
If you want to be happy for three days, get married.
If you want to be happy for eight days, slaughter a pig and eat it.
If you want to be happy forever, become a gardener.