The 2010 Chilli growing thread - it's scorching!

Mark A said:
Ive just put a heaped teaspoon full of my home made chilli powder into some pasta sauce, thinking it wouldn't be very hot and be like Cayenne pepper. :eek:How wrong was I, my mouth feels like its on fire. I don't think they put the seeds in with cayenne pepper as this is much hotter.

Cant wait to grow a few different varieties next year and make a few different powders. Or maybe mix some peppers together. Anyone know any good combinations?
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what chillis did you use to make it?
*ignore* i seen on the page before.

with your cayennes you got a lot more chillis than the hotter ones make. i think i got 10 scotch bonnets per plant before they gave up wanting to grow anymore. not enough for me to make any powder, i just drying them in quarters instead.

did you save seeds?
 
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Next harvest- 55 with about 10 still left on the plants in green/yellow/amber..

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Very nice Nick, I had a big harvest yesterday, two large bags of assorted chillies.

No photos this time as they were given away to a friend that runs one of the local curry houses.
 
Mark A said:
No, I should have, but there are still some chillies that haven't ripened yet that I may save the seeds from.

I have frozen loads, didn't even think to de-seed a few, gah.
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save some and see if all of us can do a seed swap. saves buying them!

someone mentioned earlier theres a group or something for it, can anyone link to it ? is skeeter doing it ?
 
LMAO :D. I can imagine.

I was de-seeding a couple of my Cayennes and didn't wear gloves as I didn't think these were hot enough to burn my skin...I was wrong. My sides of my fingers were stinging for hours, had to wrap a cold flannel around my hand lol.
 
Nice crop there!

Deseeded the first 37 chillis, 50+ to go... I have a mass of seeds already! I have had two trust emails so far for seeds - so guys yes I have received them.
 
aww, i m jealous of all those chillies. i have like a few dried chillis left and my plants may or may not make anymore. so i bought some finger chillies from tesco, they are stupid hot(the burning still burns like hell but burns about half as much as a scotch bonnet lol), they are all green :/ i left them on the windowsill with some ripe bellpeppers to try and make them all go red.
 
robskinner said:
How do people dry seeds btw. I bought some cherry bombs which I de seeded, trying to dry them out on my router, but how do you know you have achieved enough so that they will not go mouldy?
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i just cut the seed part off the chilli and left them to go dry over about a week. once in a bag i can break all the seeds off without touching them ;)
 
robskinner said:
How do people dry seeds btw. I bought some cherry bombs which I de seeded, trying to dry them out on my router, but how do you know you have achieved enough so that they will not go mouldy?
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ive dried whole chillies on my router they wont go mouldy unless theres damage to the chilli
 
robskinner said:
How do people dry seeds btw. I bought some cherry bombs which I de seeded, trying to dry them out on my router, but how do you know you have achieved enough so that they will not go mouldy?
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Two ways:
1. Strip them from the fruit and leave them in a dry atmosphere
2. Dry the fruit in a dry atmosphere and then dry the seeds separately.

I strip the seeds from the fruit first as it allows you to use the oven (at about 30degC) to dry the fruit and then naturally dry the seeds.
 
Ok I have got the seeds to what I consider a true dry state, they seem just like packet seeds, very light and hard, as opposed to heavy and soft.

So I am going to bag them up and put them somewhere safe for a few months. I am kinda thinking a dark dry place like a desk drawer.
 
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