Rubbish at peppers and chillies... HELP

[darcyvuqua]

Aww that's really romantic Zaz, I wondered why you have Chilli at Saturnalia. I rather thought it was because unlike me, you aren't daft enough to do dinner for over a dozen people

My chillies are looking ok. The plants are big, but the chillis are smaller than last year. There are plenty of them, so not too worried. I've grown hot patio sizzle for the first time and they are robust little plants with lots of fruit. Mine are all in the lean-to unheated greenhouse (usually known as the stayput).

do you have pictures of your patio sizzle its my first year too your description sound very similar to mine

[darcyvuqua]

this is my patio sizzle taken a few weeks back

[Lisamcflisa]

chuckled?? just a tad!!!

picked a couple of cayenne peppers that were green yesterday to see what they were like... my step daughter stuck her tongue on the end and then spent bout an hour walking round with an ice cube stuck to her tongue lol... bless, suppose they must be alright!! just need em to go red now

[Tripmeup]

Would recommend Anaheim as quite a good cropper...did very well for me this year..

[WillyNelson]

I have Anaheim too and they're doing pretty well in my g'house. Two plants; one has about 12 fruit about 2-3" and starting to redden up, the other has only just finished flowering so I'm hoping it will fruit in time before the winter sets in.

My sweet peppers aren't doing so well though. I have them in a growbag and they're only about 12" tall. A few small fruit on them but they keep getting eaten. Are peppers better off in pots? If so I think I'll transplant them for overwintering and do them in big pots next year.

[Leif]

picked a couple of cayenne peppers that were green yesterday to see what they were like... my step daughter stuck her tongue on the end and then spent bout an hour walking round with an ice cube stuck to her tongue lol... bless, suppose they must be alright!! just need em to go red now

You can eat them green, just make sure they are full size. They might have a nice green pepper smell and flavour as well as heat. Sliced thinly in salted vinegar, they make a nice side pickle for meals. If you check out the asian shops, you'll see green cayenne, or cayenne-like. Actually I've never seen the red form in indian shops. I've seen the green ones used whole in curries such as jalfrezi. Also, I found the red ones could be dried, and would sometimes develop a lovely smoky flavour. I'm not sure if this is usual, or because I dried them in an oven on a low heat.

[Lisamcflisa]

You can eat them green, just make sure they are full size. They might have a nice green pepper smell and flavour as well as heat. Sliced thinly in salted vinegar, they make a nice side pickle for meals. If you check out the asian shops, you'll see green cayenne, or cayenne-like. Actually I've never seen the red form in indian shops. I've seen the green ones used whole in curries such as jalfrezi. Also, I found the red ones could be dried, and would sometimes develop a lovely smoky flavour. I'm not sure if this is usual, or because I dried them in an oven on a low heat.

Thanks for that, I might give it a go to dry them in an oven if they give them a smokiness

[BUFFS]

i cant believe that everyone seems to be later than me with the cayenne peppers ripening,even up here we have about 80% of ours already red,and the rest not far off,it just shows us what a peculiar year we are having,im usually at least 3/4 weeks behind,but this year will crop over 200 of various types,one or two types are a bit slower,but if we get some more of this lovely sunshine,then they will be fine,OH used some in a chilli con carne last night....now thats why we grow them....beautiful...i hang any late ripening up on threads in the greenhouse at the end of the good weather and let them dry,easiest way to keep them..

[Pa Snips]

Only three of my Cayenne's are ripening at the moment but the weather forecasters are claiming this warm and sunny weather will continue for the next week or so, so hopefully more will start ripening soon. It's particularly odd because I harvested one single ripe Cayenne a few weeks ago, which was quite large while all the others were very small.

[kizkiz]

I have had loads of nice red cayennes and enough jalapenos to supply my local dominos. lol...i'm even getting a few jalapenos ripening to red.
Everything else, however, is a good two months behind where it should be. Flowers galore, and lots of pods beginning to form, but i'll be lucky to get one ripe harvest from them
The 7 pod jonah seem to be the best of the super hots

[The Large One]

with all this sun and warmth forecast for this week and weekend make the most of it to ripen your pods
if you can put them outside in the sun for the day(remember to bring them in mid/late afternoon though)
heres a small selection of mine from this year...have to admit i have gone a bit mad but i'm growing for a project this year so need all the pods i can
below from left to right
Scorpion Butch T,Trinity,7 pot,Trin Morouga,Scorpion Butch T's
these pics are a few days old and some should be ready to pick this weekend
my best super hot this year is Fatalli having already been harvesting
cayennes and ring of fire been harvesting for a few weeks

[The Large One]

could only list 5 pics so heres a couple more

Fatalli, Bengal Naga, Choc Hab

[Julesa70]

Lincolnshire Chillis

I live in Lincolnshire too and moved all my chilli plants indoors onto my window sils due to the rain and now have a huge crop of them on every plant but the sweet pepper plants I left outside are struggling and have very few peppers on and the plants are a quarter of the size they normally are.

[Lisamcflisa]

Hi Jules, the last few days of sun we've had (our random week of summer!!) has been great, i've actually got a few going red in the greenhouse, as the nights are quite chilly tho i'm making sure everything is shut up for the night... might move a few indoors i struggle for window sill space but will bring a few in... thank you few yellow belly county friend

[BUFFS]

we are picking all our cayenne peppers tomorrow and the sweet peppers,all really ripe and in good nick,but the jalepeno peppers are really dragging their feet,in a summer this dark i think we have been very lucky,we have had about 150% of our usual rain but it seems to pass for normal here,i am trying to figure out all the wetland plants for next summer now as this year has been just like the last,so is this the global warming,if so ,then how do we get frosts in the hills at the end of august? no signs of polar bears....yet...