Growing chili centil: shining green.

Growing chili is fun. After years of growing chili, we know what to expect during germination, then transplanting and so on. We can almost tell when the first flower would appear as the main stem branch out. There would be rounds and rounds of flowering and fruiting.  Then somewhere along the way, problems would appear, leaves yellowing, leaves wrinkling,  white flies visits, aphids sleeping at the underside of leaves and many more. There would be harvest after harvest, then the plants get too old that they had to go.

Seven chili plants centil variety are still going strong at the backyard. I think we started with 9, then two become stunted, that I decided to pull them out.  These plants are 4 month old. Last two weeks, I harvested every single chili on the plants, both red and green. The plants reacted well with organic and foliar fertiliser, and now the plants are fruiting with zest!! All green....., and it will a week or two before some will turn red.

chili centil, full of green hot fruits

chili centil

chili centil

chili centil

chili centil

chili flower

chili flower

green chili

chili plants

TV Show scheduled for TV1, Saturday 1.12.2012 10 am

Watch bangchik in person!!

The crew came yesterday for shots. I was there giving my views 
on the whole entrepreneurial program and strategic milestones on  institutional development.  

bangchik, Karl Shafek and Fiza in chili field

putting across my views on entrepreneurial programs, 

an effort to bring the best out of youngsters. I was asked also about 

the overall strategic approach 

on institutional 

development.

Munira, Karl Shafek and Bangchik

Munira explaining about the downstream economic activities 

beyond chili growing.

.......

Kakdah said "It's alright to be a little bit nervous" in front of camera.

bangchik and kakdah

my little vegetable garden

Thumbs up to chili harvest.

I have a few brothers, one is Azman or pakteh to the nieces and nephews. The whole family came last weekend. They gave thumbs up to the marvellous experience of chili harvest at the backyard. The price of chili had been stable at RM14 per kilo.

pakteh and makteh, thumbs up.

they were having fun

The 2000 chili project is coming to an interesting phase. Growing, fertilising, getting rid of pest and watering begin to be less pressing, as the team get used to the whole process. Marketing is a new thing for most of them, but Aina  and her friends manage to walk through, creating new contacts, opening up new opportunities. They are learning to serve more and more regular customers.  

The next  project will be more challenging as they are now planning to participate in MAHA 2012,  The International Agriculture, Horticulture and Agro tourism Exhibition to be held  at  Malaysian Agro Exposition Park Serdang from Nov 23rd to Dec 2nd. They are putting quite a high business target to deal with 3 million expected visitors.

bangchik and kakdah

my little vegetable garden

CHILI - an attempt at big scale

The project is going on well, plants are developing well under Tengku Nadzion and his team. The chili should be ready for harvest soon, in 3 weeks time. The plot is at the back of our house in Pasir Gudang Johor.

different names for chili

rissie - africaans, malagueta - portugese, cili paprika - czech, 

LOW VIEW

cili centil

cili centil

cili centil

cili centil

cili centil

cili centil

VIEW FROM THE BALCONY

2000 cili centil: extreme left

2000 cili centil: left

2000 cili centil: middle

2000 cili centil: right

2000 cili centil: extreme right

good luck to the team and their 2000 chili project.

bangchik and kakdah

johor

Chili Centil: waiting for the first harvest.

Continuity of chili growing from Tanah Merah to Pasir Gudang. Seeds  from ripe chili taken along to Pasir Gudang. A simple rule of thumb with chili centil is a month as seedlings, another two months in vegetable bed, then they are ready for the first harvest.

Now, it is another 17 days to go.

• Sow:-                               10 Nov 2011
• Germinate                       17 Nov 2011
• Transplanted                  17 Dec 2011
• Expected harvest            17 Feb 2012

chili centil, another 17 days to ripen

chili centil. with onions at the back

chili centil

chili centil

Soil had been thoroughly mixed with compost and organic fertiliser, a few inches below the surface. I sprayed liquid fertiliser twice and that's it. The plants don't really grow big and tall..., but they are managing, healthy looking..., and ready for the first harvest 17 Feb. Onions placed in between rows are growing alright, and to a certain point, I think they had ward off potential pests away. While weeding yesterday I saw one, a single white fly, darting lazily. I know, the battle is about to begin.

earlier posts:

Growing Chili centil in Johor.

Monday, December 5, 2011

BANGCHIK AND KAKDAH

pasir gudang, Johor