Chilli Impatience

[zazen999]

I'm growing a shed load of chilli plants. 96 at last count. although I gave some away to Hey Wayne last week and Mo is having some tomorrow....

Due to only having had a greenhouse since the first week of May; I didn't get alot of them started that early [although PW did give me a fair old selection from his batch but I digress]...

I sowed a Glebe Kirschen Early Yellow Chilli from Real Seeds quite early on and have nurtured it and it now has lots of little cherry sized green chillis on it.

Last week I took one, green, and it was lacklustre to say the least.

Tonight I'm cooking beetroot, chilli, onion and yellow courgette medley, and whilst tasting a bit of beetroot to see if it was done, the chilli nearly blew my head off.

WOW

Hoping the rest are as hot; they still haven't turned yellow yet but if they are like this, they might all be used up a long time before any yellow kicks in.

Piccie copied from the Real Seeds website.

Anyone else cooking with their chillis yet? Can we compare???

[rustylady]

I've got green chillies on my cayenne, but the Joe's Long are only just starting to flower. The rest are from a packet of mixed chillies called Chilli Shake so I'll have to wait and see what they turn out like

[zazen999]

Chilli shake; sounds interesting....I bought 'hot mix' chilli out in the states and am hoping that the ones that have germinated give me a good mix of the 6 varieties in there.

[Hilary B]

I have 3 Cayenne (seeds acquired while meeting at Wisley) and 3 'Inferno' which is actually a rather hot 'sweet pepper'. We definitely have fruits forming on 4 plants (seems to be 2 of each), but so far can't tell which is which (I can recognise 'A' from 'B', but I lost track of whether A is Cayenne or Inferno).

[mcsee]

I've just kicked my season off with 14 varieties of Chillies and Peppers (Hot to Sweet) and had my first lot germinate last night, Thai Birdseye's with no sign of any others just yet. I have a couple of varieties from Kernowyon that I'm trying for the first time. It's mid winter here in Oz and I have had reasonably good growing on other years, so expect the same this time.

I like the look of your little yellow Chilli, let's hope I can get some heat in some of mine.

[LostGoddess]

I have been picking our Cheyenne chilli peppers in the green for the past week, because we generally don't get enough light in our greenhouse to ripen chillis and anyway it encourages the small ones to grow. They are fiery hot when I give them the 'tongue test' raw, but they don't hold their heat when cooked.