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Beginners Guide => Grow Your Own Spices and Herbs => Topic started by: Fi5H on June 16, 2010, 10:55 PM
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heres how my chillies are coming on
I planted most a little late but they are still coming along nicely
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a nice cayenne
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I have some Cayenne, Jalape?o, Scotch Bonnets, Bhut Jolokia, Naga Morish,
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Wow that's a lot of chilli plants! I did the same last year and ended up having to chuck a load away. This year I planted about 8 plants of each of Jalapeno, Pinocchios nose and Pusa Jwala (hot green finger chilli). They all germinated so I gave most of them away to the kids football club plant sale leaving myself with 2 Jalapeno and Pinnochios nose plants and 4 Pusa Jwala. I'm still eating last years frozen Super Chillies.
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Hi Chris
Have you tried drying out the chillies and grinding to make a powder.
M
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Hi Chris, They look good :)
Here's some of mine "Cayene Chillis" I only have 3 plants but they're providing a lot of fruit :)
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Nice Cayennes 976. Do you pick them green or let them ripen? When did you plant them to have a plant that mature. Mine are only about a foot tall and no sign of fruit yet.
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nice plant 976.. I planted loads with the idea of keeping the strong ones and getting rid of the weaker ones but i havnt got the heart lol. If you nip the top of the plant when its young you will get a bushier plant that gives more fruit.. i did it with the cayenne in my pics.
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Hi Chris and Fi5h,
I planted these back in March, kept them indoors and they still are taking top spot on the window sill in my kitchen which faces south. They do drink a lot of water hence the fruit.
I've harvested a couple so far (green in colour) and they are hot but not as hot as I would expect, so I am going to let them ripen out a bit towards a reddish colour. I'll probably pick them at various stages of growth to ascertain the strength and will keep you posted.
It's quite exciting when you start producing you're own chillis :)
Next I want t produce Habernaro's. I tried these recently when I was in the USA and they are on every shelf in all the local supermarkets. Why can't we get them here?
All I can find is Sainsbury's "Scotch Bonnnets" which give approx the same heat factor but don't have the taste of Habernaros.
Even my local Asian supermarket only seems to stock Scotch Bonnets, green chillis and green Finger Chillis (The hotter ones).
Habernaros bring a whole new flavour when making curries :)
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I like the sound of Habaneros too. I guess they are probably used more in Mexican cooking which is so much more popular over there then it is here. Every town has at least 3 Taco Hells, whereas certainly in Colorado when I lived there you couldn't find a curry for love or money (I tried both). No kebabs either apart from those weird Gyros wraps which came with some strange awful tasting white sauce. They might have been okay covered in some proper chilli sauce.
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hi 976, you have to be careful when you water them.. if you give too much water when they are young their fruit is weaker. you have to make sure the top soil goes dry before watering.. little and often is better than more and frequent.
http://www.chillisgalore.co.uk/pages/growingtips.html (http://www.chillisgalore.co.uk/pages/growingtips.html)
should give you some tips..
The scotch Bonnets are apart of the Habernaros chillies they are a Jamaican fruit with similar heat. I cant wait for my Naga Morish to fruit.. they are gonna blow my head off lol
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Thanks for the tip Fi5h :)
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you can freeze them when you pick,they turn out just as good..
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what i do is de-stork them place them on one of your freezer trays loosely but not touching each other, one they have frozen you can place them in an air tight container (sandwich box or something) then put them back into the freezer, using this method the seeds may go brown but that doesn't take away the taste. I also de-seed them and chop them up, place the chopped chillies in a ice cube tray with a little water, once frozen put them in a air tight container. Then you have ready to use blocks of chillies. If you decide to use freezer bags instead of containers make sure you double bag them. hope this helps
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update on my chilli plants.. they are coming on quite well..
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Bhut Jolokia
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Naga Morish
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Scotch Bonnets, Nagas and Cayenne
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So when do you start taking orders?........ ;)
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I guess the bad news for you is that you now need to go out and buy 250 bigger pots. As soon as I got mine in the next size up they had a big growth spurt. It's going to be hard work finding space for them all but I'm like you, I just can't throw any away.
I think I planted mine about the same time as you, maybe 2 weeks earlier. the pinnochios nose and jalapenos are coming along really well, the pusa jwala are smaller but have jsut started putting out flowers.
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Have you given any thought to avoiding cross pollination between chilli types? If your super hot female flowers are pollinated by a weaker chilli's pollen you will end up with chillies a lot less potent then they should be.
Apparently bell pepper flowers can get pollinated by chilli plant pollen giving very hot peppers.
It's not something I usually take a lot of notice about, but I remember last year my Dorset Nagas weren't producing any pollen and the flowers were just falling off. Then all of a sudden they were all fruiting. The chillies were extremely hot, but tasted awful. I'm wondering now if that could have been due to the being pollinated by my super chillies instead of by themselves.
I'm definitely no expert on this matter. If anyone has any more thoughts I'd like to hear them too.
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hi chris..
yea i got a headache over the amount of plants but im giving quite a few away.. i hope to get rid of them before they flower, the ones i keep i will be trying to keep them separated during flowering to avoid cross pollination.. also im going to self pollinate them to help in this matter. Been trying to talk the wife into letting me build a greenhouse but you know what woman are like..
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It's not something I usually take a lot of notice about, but I remember last year my Dorset Nagas weren't producing any pollen and the flowers were just falling off. Then all of a sudden they were all fruiting. The chillies were extremely hot, but tasted awful. I'm wondering now if that could have been due to the being pollinated by my super chillies instead of by themselves.
I'm definitely no expert on this matter. If anyone has any more thoughts I'd like to hear them too.
No expert here either, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't work like that. Cross polination won't affect the fruits of the plant, but rather the seeds of the fruit of the plant, if you see what I mean.
In other words, say your Orange Hab got cross pollinated by, say, a bell pepper. You'd still get Orange Habs, but if you tried to grow new plants from the seeds of the Habs you might get strange results.
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time for an update.. i did have too many plants this is what happened..
too many plants and no where to live.
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time for them to get their own pad
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they all go their own place now..
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i finished the greenhouse yesterday so im happy with it now. i got a lot flowering now... remember i planted a month late so they are not as fruitfull as they should be
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good work fi5h
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That's some chilli house, started doing my own a few weeks ago and my first 2 chilli's have arrived :)
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Thats good new timeless, hope you have as much success as i have.
new update,
they are growing really well now, I have to bring some out during the day to maximize the little sunshine we are getting.. Im waiting for them to change colour now, should be within the nest week or 2.
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Sweet Peppers are coming along.
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Cayenne chillis.. waiting for them to ripen
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more Cayenne with some Jalopenos in there somehere
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some Scotch Bonnets, Bhuta Jolkia and some naga Morish..
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Andy
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Just noticed this. That is one impressive collection!
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my plants are winding down now for the winter, i am quite pleased with the jalopeno's. its intresting to keep them till red, as ive never tasted a fully ripe one till i grew my own.
next year gonna try some super hots.
my scotch bonnets were too late planted.
nice to see all they lovley chillies well done.