THE CHILLIES THREAD 2018

I wanted to have a go at making my own ‘Jerk’, hence the Scotch Bonnets.

 

A funny thing. I was given a Scotch Bonnet, which I used to make Jerk Chicken. Nowhere near as hot as I was expecting. When I harvest my own, I’ll be taking care though!

 

Last year I bought a yellow Habanero plant, which I thought had some heat however The habanero chili is only 260,000 SHU, whereas the Scotch bonnet is about 445,000 SHU. Interesting.

A guy at work is growing a Reaper and has ghost chillies in his freezer. This guy likes his food hot, I mean really hot. He has a condiment tray on his desk which he and his mate sitting next to him share. It has chilli sauces ranging in heat from hot to really really hot that they put them on their lunches

 

Chillies are enjoying the sun in the greenhouse

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- hopefully Ill get a chance to pot them on this weekend, some are getting a wee bit ahead of themselves:

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Thats "Ljuti" - not grown it before but I think its fair to say its an early fruiter !

 

My plants are tiny compared to this.

I must start earlier next year.

 

I went to a garden show yesterday and a local chilli farm was selling chillis of every variety including Dragons Breath (2,480,000 Scovilles), which is 500 times hotter than Tabasco sauce and 200,000 scovilles hotter than the Carolina Reaper. Most of their chilli plants were only 2”/3” in size and only recently repotted from plugs and they were all £6.99 each. It didn’t look as though they had sold many though

 

That's £2.80 per inch

Cor, I've just measured my Chillies and they're worth £ 2,662.80. I probably should increase my contents insurance.

 

The Chilli plants I see in GC's are normally around £2 . Charging £6.99 for small plants is taking the mick . Just had a look on Ebay and they are selling Naga plant for £9.99 , 16 sold A business opportunity for next year for someone .........
CHilli plant pepper NAGA bhut jolokia dorset chilli plants VERY HOT -FREE POST | eBay

 

You could maybe make a few bob on Ebay @Scrungee Seriously £6.99 is a rip off. I only paid £3.99 for my Trinidad Scorpion and that was much bigger. But as @HarryS has said, it’s a good business opportunity for somebody next year.

 

They're only tiny plug plants, my Nagas are in 90mm square pots:

 

My over-wintered Trinidad Moruga Scorpions have been transplanted back into their original 10L pots for about two weeks now.