Indoor chillies??

Does anyone know what varieties of chillies are best suited for growing indoors?

 

you can actually grow chilies even out of dry chili peppers , but if you keep them indoor why don`t you try a a tree chili?
capsicum pubescens is a small tree that will not die in winter if kept indoor and warm.

 

Wow thanks, I'll check them out.

 

Hello Herb.

I would suggest that all varieties are suitable. Having said that, I would go for something compact. The biggest problem you will have is giving them enough light. A bit of humidity will also help

 

I only grow a Chilli with small, hot, fruits ("Demon Red"). It carries them in abundance, produces a small plant, can easily have one plant on the kitchen windowsill to "harvest" one or two chillies for cooking a meal, and when the plant starts to go over I dry the chillies (but you could just as easily freeze them)

So maybe depends a bit what you want from your Chilli plant? Large fruits, or just something that you can cut up to spice-up a meal?

 

I grow to use. Love them!!

Many thankls for all the replies, will check some of these varieties out.

 

I grow chilli called 'fiesta'. It is quite hot and produces lots of little fruits in colours of creamy, purple and orange, matures to red. If grown in the ground in the greenhouse it can reach 2-3 foot tall, but in a pot it stays neat and conpact, very easy to handle.



This one is about to reach its 3rd birthday. We are just about finishing its last year's fruits. It has shed most of its old leaves and started to put on the new growth and even starting to develop buds and flowers.