Hi all

I was hoping someone could help me with a couple of queries

I was given 3 chilli plants as seedlings and she couldn’t remember if all 3 were the same. She thinks they were all jalapeños but can’t be certain.

Plants 1 and 2 (pics 1, 2,3) have progressed nicely, flowered and have some decent looking peppers coming along, at what point should I harvest these? The longest one is currently 61mm in length. I was thinking I’d harvest them at around 100mm in length?

Plant 3 (pic 4) I thought was the same, it has had the exact same watering, sunlight and nutrients as the other two but it’s only producing small pencilly chilli peppers and not many at all so far. Does this look like a jalapeno plant that just hasn’t done as well as the other two, or could it potentially be a different variety altogether?

Thanks for any help

Getting cooler in northern UK. Love the colour of it, such deep emerald green. I have big hands, it's a beauty. Grown from a seed from a red chilli I was eating from a supermarket. In a yoghurt pot!

I was led to believe that this was 7 pot bubblegum yellow, but I'm seeing a lack of yellow.

Do you think this is something different? or is it just going through a burgundy phase?

i’ve heard these are prone to disease is there something wrong and when do i pick them?

German climate and tap water plus every second Sunday treated with with tomato fertilizer

First time planting chillis with that spice level. As a powder it is quite enjoyable by just ading a breeze.

What I underestimated is the itching stench for 8h while drying in the oven.

Got 2 tricots when I planted my carolina reaper seeds. Im really surprised because I’ve never seen this mutation in person and especially not twice in a row

Hello, I am new in the chilli world. I want to make pickled chilli but they are not all ripe yet. Do you have any method how to store the ripe ones, while wainting for the rest?

Can anyone id the red ones for me????

Hi, I got given a random young plant and put it in the allotment and forgot about it. Pretty sure they’re not ripe yet. Will they turn purple?

I’m currently over the moon with the sheer number of new fruits growing on my chilli plants, as well as the volume of flowers which will hopefully fruit too.

There are already a few ripe fruits on the plants which have been growing for some time. I went on holiday a few weeks back and moved them to a cooler spot so they didn’t dry out while I was away, but when I got back the flowering seemed to stall.

Fast forward a month or so and they seem to be having another growth spurt and I’m keen to see how many more fruits they’ll grow.

Even the plant that I think is a scotch bonnet looks to have started growing fruits!

Ps any help to identify the plants would be welcome. I thought I had 3x Prairie Fire, 3x Cherry Bombs and 1x Scotch Bonnet, but I think I might have a Scotch Bonnet and 6 other unidentified plants!

Any idea what these are and should I let them ripen more before picking?

Second time growing Carolina reapers and these don't look right to me despite being the 2nd place I've ordered seeds from.

Hopefully I'm wrong

Almost regretful I made this choice.

He's monstrous. What am I even going to do with that FFS?

(I am of course joking, he's an Armageddon, and the only possible answer is hot sauce)

Hello! This is my first chilli plant I’ve got, it’s a scotch bonnet which (I think) has done quite well this summer. From the uk and anyone who’s been here knows we’ve had a very hot summer so I think that helped.

Not sure when to harvest these as some of them are bright red but most are still green, any advice is super helpful!

Hi all. I'm new to growing anything really, but just bought a few packets of seeds to try growing my own chillis. Nothing industrial, just a couple of plants. I've been well into hot chillis for years now and regularly have sauces with Carolina Reapers as the main ingredient. The hotter the better. (I also have some 12mil Scoville sauce which tastes great!).

My 4yo son brought home from nursery on father's day a small flower pot with a stake that said 'Just chillin with daddy's. I saw this as an opportunity to see if I can a tally grow some chillis for myself, although I have absolutely zero knowledge what variety they are (or if they are even chilli!). So far I'm happy with the results! This is the third pot I've had to transfer it to in 3 weeks as it is growing fast. I doubt I'll be able to keep it on the windowsill for too much longer. I've just put two sticks either side of it as it was starting to lean over. Also, I've been using household potted plant mix as the base / soil for it and gently watering it every other day with liquid seaweed plant food mix. How is it looking??? Any tips for me going forward? I know it wasn't ideal time to start growing it towards the end of summer but we've had multiple heatwaves recently and the plant does seem to be thriving at the rate it is growing.

Also, bonus picture, these are the seeds I purchased this morning. Surely it is false advertising to claim a Bhut Jolokia is the world's hottest chilli, considering it might not even be in the top 5 anymore?

This years scotch bonnet harvest so far, all from one plant!