2014 Chilli Growers Thread

Just sat here eating my first born mini Aji limon raw, just picked. She had has a bit of a kick to it!


Edited: following the delay on the excessive drooling and sniffling
 
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Regretting it now :( and no milk or Yoghurt in the house lol

Growers rights... the first born and all?(see below) I have a VERY orange Scotch Bonnet at the moment but I don't know if i dare munch on my first born from the Scotch Bonnets

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Had yet more Habaneros ripen so I've been cooking again. Made some Habanero hot sauce - viciously hot (there are 26 Habs in those 5 small bottles) but absolutely delicious. Tabasco sauce tastes tame and manky in comparison.

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Also made some honey chilli nuts with the Habanero powder I made previously. Pretty tasty but has a weird aftertaste (I think it's the combination of honey and salt).

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Habanero plant appears to have finally stopped flowering but there are still probably over 100 unripe chillis on it and I'm starting to run out of ideas for using them. I have about 50 dried and another 40 or so frozen as well as the powder already. Any suggestions welcome.
 
Stan...do you have any links to any good recipes for hot sauces? Have my Basket of Fire going crazy and reckon I am going to end up with about 50 or more fruits from it. Have a few tomatoes left over from a plant and was going to make a tomato chilli chutney, but may be tempted to do a hot suace too.
 
I've a really cack year all round for me. Chillies have underperformed massively compared on previous years. And my tomatoes have only just begun to ripen.

I have done nothing different to any previous year!
 
Was away for the last 2 weeks, with no one to look after the plant or pollinate the flowers... Expected to come back to a sorry dead chilli plant.
From a distance it looked really good, new chillies growing, still all green!

As I got close I questioned what the fur type coating was, and what is all that white crap on the counter round the plant?
Horrendous greenfly invasion!

Most of the buggers are gone after a the plant had a soaking in the kitchen sink, and was advised to use light soap spray by a mate afterwards. Will do this for the next couple of days, but are there any other "do this or you will fail" solutions?

I've grown fond of this plant. :(
 
My Habanero is nearing the end for this season - only 14 fruits left on it now. Here is a photo of the chillis I've harvested over the last couple of weeks:

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All I need now is a recipe for 130 Habaneros :p
 
Wow nice haul! I have a lot of fruit on my plants, they are just not ripening and I fear I'm running out of time. It has been a very poor year for me.
 
I've had fudge-all. There are still a ton of purple jalapenos that are yet to ripen though, a few scotch bonnets and a load of really tiny habaneros.

Weirdly the scotch bonnets have zero heat to them - the habs (at least some of them) have quite a kick. The jalapenos are at about the level you would expect.

At the moment it almost feels like a better use of time/money to just order some big batch of fresh chillies online to make sauces/etc.
 
FrenchTart said:
At the moment it almost feels like a better use of time/money to just order some big batch of fresh chillies online to make sauces/etc.
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I'd have been a hell of a lot cheaper just buying fresh chillis but I have enjoyed the growing process. I should be a lot cheaper next year as I'll have the plants over-wintered and all the gear so all I'll have to buy for next year is some fresh compost and chilli focus.

For the record, by the time the remaining 14 chillis ripen I will have had approximately 350 Habs off that plant. Not bad for a first year plant grown from seed :cool:
 
Made some evil chilli jam with my scorpions and reapers. Very nice though. Used 200g of them once corded and de-seeded, really should have used less and used more peppers.
 
What's the best thing to do over winter chaps?

I've two plants that are beginning to look a bit sorry for themselves. They were exploding during summer, sat in the window, south-facing. Any tips on where's best to keep them or whether I should prune? A few leaves are dying so they can't be happy..
 
i chopped all of mine down this weekend and put them in the shed.

good job too as my greenhouse blew down this morning.
 
Crazy /re your greenhouse :eek:

Are you actually overwintering them? I thought you could get by with little/no sunlight for that but you needed to keep them above zero centigrade?
 
FrenchTart said:
Crazy /re your greenhouse :eek:

Are you actually overwintering them? I thought you could get by with little/no sunlight for that but you needed to keep them above zero centigrade?
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I had planned on leaving a hab and a scotch in the greenhouse, ive cut them back to just the main stem to about 15cm in height. I read they need to stay in the light though and even thought about bringing them inside to a window sill!
 
Well i had an interesting first year my 8 scotch bonnets had probably 500 or more flowers and had 6 fruits and another 7 still ripening , all of the flowers just dropped off.

My 7 Aji limons are still flowering and producing new fruits, took about 60 off it last week and have had handfulls of 10-15 at a time on 3-4 occasions and there is still 70 or more left on them.

The scotch bonnets i had have been very mild and the Aji's some have blown my head off suprisingly and others have had no heat at all. Very confused by it all
 
HybridX said:
Well i had an interesting first year my 8 scotch bonnets had probably 500 or more flowers and had 6 fruits and another 7 still ripening , all of the flowers just dropped off.

My 7 Aji limons are still flowering and producing new fruits, took about 60 off it last week and have had handfulls of 10-15 at a time on 3-4 occasions and there is still 70 or more left on them.

The scotch bonnets i had have been very mild and the Aji's some have blown my head off suprisingly and others have had no heat at all. Very confused by it all
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Did you have the scotch bonnets outside so they could pollinate in the breeze?
 
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