The 2015 Chilli Thread

A more modest success than others, but my two plants are looking good and really enjoying the garden room heat, though you need to keep a beady eye on them drying out in a trice! Bought late from the nursery I already have several fruits on the Hungarian Hot Wax so not bad.

 

Draky Chillies, one on another plant is starting to turn red, wont be seed saving from the plant on the right as shape isn't true. RSM are a real nuisance this year.

 

I agree, @Scrungee , having a real problem with RSM here too. As item to be as green as possible, I find the best way to deal with them is to plant the plants outside, and let the natural predators clean them. With an overnight temperature of 23c last night, I doubt they will get a chill!

 

It's absolutely swarming with RSM outside! There's thousands swarming over a corrugated iron roof building near my tunnels at the plot, and when I went to fill my water containers by the outside tap at home they were all over them.

 

Strange!! It's only my stressed indoor plants get it - I move them outside and they grow healthy new leaves... Maybe I have a colony of RSM-eaters in the vicinity?!!

 

Please don't laugh, but we are about to pick our first chilli of the year.... I think it is one of the Ring of Fire plants. Interestingly, the largest chilli on the Italian green chilli is, umm, starting to turn red! Maybe we should have picked it already?

 

Turning red!?! Mine have only just turned up never mind turning red! Although this is my most successful year growing chillies, I'm still way off the pace of you guys :(

 

Here is our first crop of chillies (minus a second red Lombardo, which is cooking in our ratatouille).

Ring of fire to the left (had to cut some unripe out, as the plant was stressed) and Lombardo to the right (supposed to be a green chilli?!)

 

My Nagas are very slow and look dishevelled but my Shiney Hybrids are doing well

 

No chillis here, but do peppers count? my wee pepper plants 2nd year in fruit :D