The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Growing => Vegetables => Topic started by: langdon on May 28, 2010, 12:25:14 pm
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this morning i potted on 21 red hot chillie plants!!!!!
really chuffed as i love chillies in food esp currys.
last year i had no joy for germination, so was chuffed to see all these lush plants.
any one else out there a red hot chillie fan?
not the band, but i have seen them live back home in dublin it was cool, not like the chillies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
langdon ;D
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21 chilli plants?!!! You'll be eating chilli all year with that many. I grew about 6 varieties different strengths a few years back and I have just got to the end of them in my freezer and the dried ones I did. Growing some "Pepperonicino" ones this year and one Jalapeno. Should be enough I hope.
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i know!!!!
my wife thinks im mad, but as said i love meals that are hot and spicy.
im sure i will give some to freinds is well though. ;D
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I'm a fan of both - the band and the edible ones 8) I always grow too many but chutney can use up loads. I've only got a dozen plants this year but sometimes with more space you get more chillies anyway. For a tasty snack, split a large pepper, add Philadelphia, a bit of ham then a chillie or two and close it back up - chilli surprise, as you don't know which mouthful will be cool and which will buuurn ! :o
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I've only got 6..
Do you guys grow them in greenhouses or polytunnels?
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Ive got some scotch bonnet growing which are very very very hot,not for me i might add they are for oh who has a ton of hot chill powder on every meal!
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I grow mine in pots in the greenhouse which is inside the polytunnel. Last year I planted some out in the tunnel border but the chicks, which had to be in the tunnel because of too many predators outside, ate them all, red hot bits especially.