{"id":94,"date":"2006-08-24T19:17:26","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T19:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=94"},"modified":"2006-08-24T19:27:48","modified_gmt":"2006-08-24T19:27:48","slug":"second-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"Second Wind."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Megan, I found something other than a grumpy old man rant to post today (though that is still brewing, I think).<\/p>\n<p>A while ago I thought the chilli plants had basically done their dash for the year.  There seemed to be no more flowers appearing and so I suspected that once the chillis had all ripened on the plants they would have to be found, erm, another home in the big green bin (hope they don&#8217;t hear me say that!!)<\/p>\n<p>But since we re-potted the smaller <em>Ring of Fire<\/em> plants into big new pots they&#8217;ve found a new lease of life, and started to flower again.  The <em>Habaneros<\/em> still have lots of chillis, but no new flowers appearing.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img alt=\"flowers.jpg\" id=\"image93\" src=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/flowers.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>All of this is still a bit of a mystery really. I&#8217;m still not sure just how long the plants are meant to flower for, how many chillis you get off a good plant, or how long the plants last. But I&#8217;ll take all the chillis I can get, while I can get them!<\/p>\n<p>I know you can over-winter the plants, but I suspect they&#8217;d best be taking the dive to a better place and new ones started for next year. I&#8217;m looking forward to trying some of the other varieties I got at the chilli festival a bit earlier. I hope I have the same success with those as I&#8217;ve had with this year&#8217;s efforts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Megan, I found something other than a grumpy old man rant to post today (though that is still brewing, I think). A while ago I thought the chilli plants had basically done their dash for the year. There seemed to be no more flowers appearing and so I suspected that once the chillis had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}