Sir picked his first Jalapeno yesterday too, and I came home to find 2/3 of it still in the fridge! Given Sir is a chilli head, this bodes ill for my ability to eat them! He offered to spice up my veggie moussaka, which I declined (yes, I know, wuss).

The vast majority of them are in the potting shed now so are getting lots of sunlight, and there's a lot of fruit on them... they're pretty much all in 8" pots now. The Friar's Hat is nearing my height... they weren't joking when they said 1.5m and higher...

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My one remaining chilli plant is FINALLY flowering

Most upset with the cherry bomb. Tasted like a normal red pepper. I read last year that a lot of folk who had bought sweet red peppers had discovered with horror that they were chillies - well now I know where the sweet pepper seed went

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my chillis, which I didn't sow until the last day in April are flowering .......................coooooooooooooooooolio I'm impressed , jjust thought I'd share

These are my first three bulgarian carrots - there are loads more still to come

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only one of mine has any flowers on it but no fruit yet

They look fab Penny. Report back on heat will ya

= blistering
= hot
= cool

The best doers so far for me are the Czech black, which do actually turn red - I'll report back on their hotness

feeling hot, hot, hot I think spicy food is good in hot weather. Had a small bowl of veg curry, rice and a little pakora for lunch. Would have had some yogurt and cucumber but gave it to the hens

So far - the winners by a mile for me are the Czech Black, but some are making a late run on the rails !!!!

How about some pic Mr Reedos ???

My Hot Lemons are finally on a roll, absolutely covered in blossom!
My trial Yellow Aji also fianlly has flowers.
Last year's varigated Fish has lots of fruit

... and I haven't tried any of them yet !

We've got a mixed bunch.

Friar's hat has finally gone red. Seemed so-so until we ate the seed end, and then hurriedly revised our opinion! Have 20+ off a 6' plant. Yes have photos...

Cherry bomb, well, bombed. Might as well have been a sweet pepper. Nice scarlet though.

Thai Dragon. Hands down winner for really hot nice chillies. Pity not as many as we'd have liked. Scarlet.

Old Mother's - weird yellow ones, known from previous years to be fairly hot

UFO (or so we call them) which you chaps agree are probably yellow scotch bonnets. Not bad, but only really WOWZER when raw. Cooked they lose something.

Jalapeno - nice, smaller than expected and not very many so we've had to savour them!

Might have to try and find a more prolific variety next year.

All in all, a decent haul, thanks mostly to a) big enough pots (20cm/8") and b) growing them in the potting shed by the windows.

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Had some chilli issues this year, all entirely my own fault! So out of all the plants I sowed and was given I ended up with....

one Bolivian rainbow plant (absolutely smothered in teeny purple fruit now turning red) growing to grow it every year from now on!

one Czech black plant....only two good sized chillies from the plant (chooks got to it during flowering stage), ate one while black and it looked amazing but was very mild. The second one is almost red (and I'll report back once I've fed it to Dave )
Deffo going to grow this one next year.

and one surviving lemon drop plant, just coming into bud now which I'm going to bring indoors and try to overwinter.

While I think about it, my Explosive Ember chillies are fab. The 5 survivors of the original 8 are absolutely covered in chillies which are mild when purple, but quite warm when red - 7 heat. Plants are about 8" tall so don't take up much room and are very pretty with purple veined foliage so would live quite happily on a warm windowsill I should think.

Does anyone want seeds if I save some?

karen wants a chili for tea so i went in the greenhouse to see if i had any growing and hear is what i got well chuffed

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oooh what variety are the little ones please?

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wow very nice

they look good uns HT

I picked a few green peppers tonight but the chillis aren't ripe yet but I have high hopes - these are the Hot Lemons, or Lemon Drop or whatever the trial ones are called, I forget There are millions of em

Will you lot stop going on about chillis I -HAVE-NONE
OK?????
Kicks the cat Goes off to sulk

I'll send you some seeds for next year hunny If I can grow them, anyone can

Ooh thanks Loops Mine suffered from a slimey's attack in the gh and never recovered Like the aubs

Has anyone grown Aji chillies? Mine seem to be 3 foot and counting ... also the Hot Yellows ... is this right ???

The plants or the chillies ?

Here's my Friar's Hat...


That's the conservatory roof - and the pot's on the floor...

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(the plants you can see in the potting shed are chillies and the cucumber)

Blimey - that plant's enormous MB

I only managed to grow 2 chilli plants this year and have gone from one extreme to the other ...

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The one on the right is Starburst from Reedos chilli trial - plant has loads of them but they all look unripe and too small to do much with so we've not tasted them yet The one of the left is Anaheim (freebie seeds with a magazine) - tried a couple but they're so mild they're more like a green pepper - hoping they may get hotter if they go red

I'm growing Aji...but the sweet one not the hot one (a gift from Dom )
they are in my flower borders and despite the blurb insisting a polytunnel was obligatory they have some quite large (although still green ) peppers on them.
The plants are about chest high on me

I've had a lot of really mild green peppers this year, we've had to wait for nearly everything to go to its ripe colour before actually being able to taste any heat. Chilli heads, us...

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