Chilli plants pictures progression so far

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    I thought id share a few pics of our growing so far this year and welcome any questions about it.
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    This is our recently potted up windowsill plants 2 or 3 weeks and they will be going into their buckets as final pots.
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    A pic of our 6x4 growhouse. Filled but not quite full enough yet.
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    Also our light box, this is where we force grow the c.chinense (superhot) chillis. These will grow in here until the weather seriously improves.

    I can put more pics on thought some of you may enjoy reading about it.

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      Smashing James. [​IMG]

      Penny's Peter peppers are just forming flower buds now.
       
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        These are some of my faveourite fhillis to grow solely because true breeds look like willys, infantile i know, however, still worth a snigger lol. I have orange yellow and red peter seeds for next year infact i already have all of my seeds for next year including the sexy aribibi gusano!!
         
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        Hi sal, thanks the pics arent the best but as soon as we have some prettier pods ill break the camera not the camera phone out lol. this may previously have been however, to my knowledge, either the trinidad scorpion butch t holds the record now or the trinidad scorpion morouga blend holds it either way theyre all unbearably hot lol ive even heard the chocolate trinidad scorpion can reach up to 1.8m shu but this is only by word of mouth on other forums. I grow them more for the passion of growing and developing them than i do eating but i love making food with them and i also eat alot of chillis raw far better than an apple or banana!!
         
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        So as were having some amazingly hot weather today decided to clear out the grow house and piture some of the plants
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        This is a turbo medina.
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        This is a sweet banana chilli
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        This is an f1 apache
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        This monster is a scotch bonnet
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        This is the flower of what i believe to be a chenzo.

        Hope you enjoy the pics will be uploading more pics as season progresses
         
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          really great James , near where i live there is a chilli farm , http://www.edibleornamentals.co.uk/ plus few years ago i was in Cambridge but can`t remember the name another chilli farm , tryed the ghost chilli there :mute: ,
          years ago I`ve growed a german chilli , but really can`t remember the name , the big difference of all it was the leaves , completely different .
          Back in Italy this is one of the most used , peperoncino ciliegia (cherry chilli)
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            I've never seen chilis quite like these before!! They look almost like strawberries or little, red cherry tomatoes. I'm not a fan of growing the hot stuff, but know I know!
             
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            Looks a bit like unhybridised version of the cherry bomb, were growing some naga bhut jolokia or ghost chillis theyre amazing but very hot!! The german chilli plant i couldnt b sure of but i will have a search.
            Theres a surprising number of chilli farms about now!!
             
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            You could also try looking on www.semillas.de they have some good classifications on there!!
             
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            The cherry chillis are classic in Italy as spice , but they are really hot , more mild are the colored variety like the those
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            it`s not a photoshop , it`s just chillie
            or the black cherry again
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              The coloured variety look like a species we grow called little elf. And the black ones a bit like small chenzo chillis
               
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              James as you look like passionate about chilli try to grow one of this
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              it`s not a trick .
               
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                I can believe it as well a pic i saw on another forum for chilli growers some one last season had an 8ft plant in a 5lt pot. Scary ey!! My brown rocotos (wild&rare) that will be planted in december/january have the potential to grow into trees and last for up to 25 years (or so im told) which is quite exciting!!
                 
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                it`s much more easy then you think , look at those.
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                it`s an italian grafting made on Solanum torvum , can`t find the other picture but you can make your chilli tree out of it ,as long as tomato , aubergine , pepper ,chilli , pepino and so on are from the same family .
                it actually in my project to do .....
                 
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