Chilli growers

[*-SARIN-*]

Any chilli growers here?  What are you growing this year?

I've got a load of Moruga Scorpions, Orange Habaneros, Scotch Bonnets and Naga's planted.  Bonnets and scorpions are up, the haberneros and naga's should be sprouting next week  Pics to follow.

[DiscoDes]

*-SARIN-* I'm not growing any this year as I had to give up my Allotment where I grew Padron Peppers - or Russian Roulette Peppers, i'd thoroughly recommend these, they are quite prolific, in fact went out to eat last night and had a bowl full as a Tapas, disappointingly none were super hot!, I also grew loads of Jalapenos, Hungarian Hot Wax & Scotch Bonets for every day use.

I don't even have a South Facing Window in the new house to grow some indoors I love the Twilight or Bolivian Rainbows which are lovely plants to have indoors nice and colourful and the added bonus of a crop!

[igual]

Just got a couple of nagas, a couple of purple tigers and 2 jalepeno 1x aji limon

[nehctik]

Ive always wanted to grow chili's but they never take, maybe its since Im not using a greenhouse for the full grow? Well sometimes they grow but never really fruited.

[igual]

I grow them indoors.
Use a soda bottle method as a germinator,propergator.
Once they are nicely established pop on windowsills.
Sit back and laugh when cat,dog,child steels one and trys to eat it.
Only reason I am growing nagas again after a 3 year break is my lad wanted to try the naga challenge.
I have told him that they are like biting a red hot poker lol.

[nehctik]

No windowsil space, I do have a lil metal framed growhouse thing like this. Normally I start plants in there and then move out as the plants get bigger, maybe this year they should stay in there all summer long.

Whats the soda bottle method?

I've been contemplating moruga scorpions or carolina reapers after seeing plugs available, i'll never be able to eat them but I have a friend who absolutely loves super hot type stuff.

[*-SARIN-*]

Mar 6, 2015 16:25:33 GMT igual said:

Just got a couple of nagas, a couple of purple tigers and 2 jalepeno 1x aji limon

Always wanted to try the aji lemons, supposed to be a very unique flavour and definitely on the list.

Mar 7, 2015 3:56:18 GMT nehctik said:

Ive always wanted to grow chili's but they never take, maybe its since Im not using a greenhouse for the full grow? Well sometimes they grow but never really fruited.

I never use a greenhouse, plant seed in a tray, cover with a clear bag, stick on top of the sky box, nice and toasty.  Once sprouting i remove the bag and then prick out once they have at least 2 sets of leaves.  A lot of people make the mistake of putting a small chilli plant in a massive pot where the plant uses all it energy growing its roots to get water rather than producing fruit.  I re-pot my chillies 3 times from seedling to fully grown plant.

Mar 7, 2015 8:29:55 GMT nehctik said:

No windowsil space, I do have a lil metal framed growhouse thing like this. Normally I start plants in there and then move out as the plants get bigger, maybe this year they should stay in there all summer long.

Whats the soda bottle method?

I've been contemplating moruga scorpions or carolina reapers after seeing plugs available, i'll never be able to eat them but I have a friend who absolutely loves super hot type stuff.

Yeah leave them in there, they love heat and only water when they start to wilt, stressing the plant produced more heat, it's a tightrope though i warn you  I've had good results with scorpions before but the superhots are a lot slower growing IMO and harvest is very late season.

[igual]

Like a mini greenhouse

[nehctik]

Ahh Never seen it done that way before but its a good idea and makes alot of sense.

[igual]

I use this method to grow coriander all year round at home, but rather than a coke bottle I use a big 5L water bottle

[charliehorse]

I grew some bog standard cayenne chillies last year, easy to get going and not to hard to get them to fruit apparently

Got a little 2 foot twin fluorescent light to bring them on a bit till the weather improves and all went great till I potted them on again and stuck them, all bar one, outside in one of those cheapo plastic 3 tier greenhouses.
The weather turned dire and very little chilli production happened. Well I do live on the dreary windy rainy west coast of Scotland lol.

Now, the one plant I kept inside on an east facing windowsill that is in shade from a hedge and the neighbours trees went great.
Good crop of decent chillies and it still hasn't died. It stopped fruiting for about 4 months but has started flowering again in the past week.

Planted a new batch in early January and they are now under my light growing nicely.
Hopefully the weather will be nicer this year and I can get them to grow outside.

Just the same Cayenne ones though as my girlfriend doesn't like them any hotter and its her that using them in the cooking.

[nehctik]

From what I read on google I think I'm going to have to try padron chillis.
I'm hoping my cucamelons and pineberries grown back this year too.

[DiscoDes]

Mar 8, 2015 23:36:44 GMT nehctik said:

From what I read on google I think I'm going to have to try padron chillis.
I'm hoping my cucamelons and pineberries grown back this year too.

Padron's are great! Very prolific.
Pick them when they are green and one in 10 should be nice and firey, if you leave the chillis on the plan for too long they are all hot!

When picked leave the stalks on and fry them in some olive oil until the skin browns a bit and blisters, then sprinkle with sea salt and serve while still hot.

[nehctik]

Bought some padron peppers and some jalepenos from a semi local sainsburys, so I can try the padrons before committing to grow them and the jalepenos to attempt making jalepeno poppers, again if they go well it'll help my crop choices

[nehctik]

Mar 9, 2015 8:48:48 GMT DiscoDes said:

Mar 8, 2015 23:36:44 GMT nehctik said:

From what I read on google I think I'm going to have to try padron chillis.
I'm hoping my cucamelons and pineberries grown back this year too.

Padron's are great! Very prolific.
Pick them when they are green and one in 10 should be nice and firey, if you leave the chillis on the plan for too long they are all hot!

When picked leave the stalks on and fry them in some olive oil until the skin browns a bit and blisters, then sprinkle with sea salt and serve while still hot.

Made my jalepeno poppers and did the padrons like you said DiscoDes they were both awesome.