My Apache F1 Chilli

The flowers kind of dry up, turn brown and if you look closely a chili starts to grow in it's place.

I have 1 chili about an inch long that is turning red slowly from the tip to the base and another that is actually growing red.

I'm going to follow Alice's advice and try a chili at lunchtime :D

 

Thanks for the heads up on the flowers turning brown, a few of mine have done this and I was assuming it was down to my overwatering issue and all bar the leaves at the top of each stem falling off. (A few of the buds that hadn't opened fell off as well) maybe I can still look forward to rescuing a chilli or 2 from the plant I thought I murdered!

 

I also have the F1 Apache chilli plant - it is very dense and not very high, no flowers as yet but then I am in the N. of Scotland and we are behind on everything that grows. I am keeping it in my greenhouse, is that why it is short, should I put it more out of direct light?

 

I had (at that stage) an abundance of white flowers. Some of them turned brown and dropped off. Some of them turned brown and chili's formed in their place and some of them are still white flowers.

I now have an average of 6 on each plant. ! chili that is completely red and 2 that are red from the tip and working backwards and I now have 2 tiny little ones that are growing red.

Mine are about a foot and a half tall and at its extreme about the same distance wide. I have taken some photos and will post them tonight for you.

 

Also, mine have pretty much spent their entire lives in bright sunlight sitting on my window sill in the office. If it has been a scorchingly hot day then I tilt the blinds so they don't have direct light but the absolute majority has been on the window sill with the blinds up.

I used to be able to fit all 5 on 1 window sill but now they have grown I have had to commandeer a few colleagues window sills :D

 

Nice plants!

 

How do I remove them when I'm ready to eat them? I've had 1 and I just cut it off rather than pick it off like a strawberry (if you get what I mean).

 

The top of the plant seems to produce good Chilli's that start green and slowly turn red.

The lower plant seems to produce short stubby chilli's that grow red from the start. Should I be trimming the short stubby ones and not let them grow?

This is the produce from 5 plants (after I had given away about 10)