Red hot Chilli Peppers
30 August 2025 01:32 amWe have the first ripe red chillies as of this week :-)
The larger chilli plant has nearly finished flowering, I think -- no sign of any ripening fruits on the smaller one, but plenty of green ones. I shall have to step up my kitchen dried chilli usage in preparation for a fresh harvest!
We are about six weeks ahead of last year in terms of ripening :-)
The larger chilli plant has nearly finished flowering, I think -- no sign of any ripening fruits on the smaller one, but plenty of green ones. I shall have to step up my kitchen dried chilli usage in preparation for a fresh harvest!
We are about six weeks ahead of last year in terms of ripening :-)
Go you!
Date: 2025-08-30 01:07 am (UTC)Re: Go you!
Date: 2025-08-30 07:10 am (UTC)In my experience there is very little point in trying to grow sweet peppers here, even if you have a greenhouse -- you can get maybe two fruits per plant (which tend to get eaten by slugs before they are fit to harvest) per year, of an unpromising size. But the miniature chilli peppers are much more useful, and this variety crops quite heavily -- even if only a minority of the fruits actually ripen before the plant dies back in any given year. (The thing about chilli peppers, or at least this variety, is that they are actually still hot even when they are green. Ripe fruits are only required for the purposes of collecting viable seed...)
Re: Go you!
Date: 2025-08-30 08:31 am (UTC)