Chili pics

[golden14]

Pic of my mini chili farm - 30 plants on the go and all looking strong so far, growing in my conservatory but I have the door to outside open most days to toughen them up, I wouldn't call it hardening them up as they do not really do well if left out overnight even in Summer - I have tried it before and find it just slows the growth right down (Note this if you are growing any)
Enjoy!

[rosa15]

Nice indoor setup of chili farm.

[stupo74]

Hi golden14,
Looks like you have some great plants there
What types are they?????

I grow a few chillies myself, however this year i have only done a couple of plants, as we thought we were on the move from here.

Nothing better than your own grown especially, when you see the price they are now in the shops.

Good Luck with your season, cheers stupo.

[jo&tribe]

Look good! I grew my first chilli's from seed this year and they are just starting to produce chilli's now - they are about 3cm long. I only have two plants and I haven't a clue what variety they (must check seed packet!) but we have lots of flowers, so hopefully plenty of chilli's. Do you have any good ideas for preserving a glut?

Jo

[golden14]

Okay, now if you have had a bad day this will probably make you laugh, last year I planted cayenne chillies which started to flower and crop at around 10" in height. This year I was looking forward to a similar looking crop with small plants, but the chili plants just seemed to keep getting bigger and bigger - When they hit 18" in height I commented to my wife that they had not yet flowered (Also noticing the leaves were looking very different), at which point she replied "Oh its probably the free seeds I put in with the others, I got them with some other garden mail order bits"....Alarm bells start ringing...........

So I do some research, having already sold around 10 plants, only to notice they look identical to paper lantern chilies - correction, I find the old seed packet she has mixed in with the others and they are indeed paper lantern chillies, at some 450k scoville units compared to the 30k for cayenne chillies!!!!

Do not laugh as they grow to upto 3-4ft in height according to the internet, and I have 30+ of them growing. It's like day of the trifids in my conservatory!!!! Not only that I have an honesty table out the front of the house so I have no idea who has bought them!!!! :-)