A chilli fiesta

Our chillies were sown back in the end of January/beginning of Feburary in a heated propagator. I actually planted a large number of varieties, but due to limited space ended up giving many away. The positive thing is I am, this morning, awaiting the arrivial of our new 8x10ft greenhouse - a great opportunity for a mini chilli factory! Shown below is a variety called 'chilli purple'. The fruit shown is quite unusual. It actually looks like a flower with petals. Not quite sure if this is normal. but pretty nonetheless.



Here is the last fruit from the 'ring of fire' plant. We have harvested approximately 25 fruit from this plant and, as the name suggests, they are hot! Judging by the leaf size this could have possibily been quite a large plant so next year I will try going these in a bigger pot to see if this will increase yield.


Here are the jalapeno peppers. One is actually starting to ripen to red. You are meant to harvest these green. Not a great yield, approximately 10 fruits on the plant, but again I think this would have done better in a bigger pot.


An outstanding success has been 'praire fire'. These are small bush plants and our 1 plant has produced up to 100 fruit. Again, these are hot! Small, but deadly!



We have a couple of chilli plants called 'peter pepper'. I won't post what they are meant to resemble!


The majority of our chilli plants are growing in the conservatory for this season, but we did try a number outside. I have had success with chillies on the patio as it gets full sun for the majority of the day, but chillies are very temperature dependent. Many plants look healthy, but have very few flowers and not many have set fruit. The plant to reverse this trend has been 'Whippet's Tail'. It might only have 1 fruit, but this stands at an impressive 9 inches in length.