My Balcony Garden Journey - Growing Green Chilies & Other Plants

If you are a beginner like me and want to learn some responsibilities, growing green chili is a terrific choice.

Green chili can be grown in a pot, and you do not even have to purchase the seeds. Just get some green chili, remove the seeds, and spread them around the pot. Of course, fertile soil is an essential requirement. It is pretty easy, isn't it?

However, as I grew them, I learned some do's and don'ts that I will share here.

Lots of tutorials out there are complex, and I would lose my mind just knowing that they literally complicate this whole thing of growing chili. In reality, it is really just daily watering, avoid direct sun exposure, and prolonged sun exposure. Last but not least, make sure the soil is moist and not too dry. If it gets too dry, the plants will start to droop.

If you happen to forget to water your green chili pot, here's what I did: I revived it by giving it a good soak and placing it in the sunlight. After that, I put it back where the plants can hide under the shade, allowing them to thrive once again.

By the way, it has taken me two months for this chili to bear fruit, and I am thrilled to see the green chili that I can harvest soon. I've also seen some new tiny buds, and I hope they'll give me more green chili.

I am very lucky that my balcony faces east. This means that in the morning, the area gets full sun exposure, which makes my plants happy and thrive.

While my collection isn't extensive yet, I currently have lavender, green chili, watermelon, turmeric, scallions, mulberry, and lemongrass, along with a few other unidentified plants.

There were times when I neglected my balcony, but now I am trying to bring it back to life.

I have seen some of the plants I grew to thrive, and that gives me the confidence that I can actually have some responsibility to develop something on my balcony.

Speaking of which, my watermelon is currently in vegetative growth, and I saw some vines around it. So, I hope to see it flowering soon, and then I am looking forward to seeing a tiny watermelon will appear—at least, that's the plan!

Anyway, I have been thinking of adding some leafy greens to my collection, as well as flowers like jasmine and Hibiscus. I have a few flowers in my tiny garden outside, but they aren't thriving. So, I am planning to repot them and move them to my balcony so that they can get better care from me and succeed.

It’s really rewarding to see how my chili has grown, along with some of my other plants. I’ve been working on this balcony for quite sometime now, but as I mentioned above, there were time when I neglected it.

At one point, I was also dealing with fruit bat droppings which became quite a problem since it seems like they were intentionally targeting the same spot every day. Fortunately, that stopped lately and I really hope they won't return to my balcony. My mom suggested me to put protective nets it which could do the trick preventing future bat droppings but it’s not something I can set up myself, so that’s going to take a while before I can get that done.