Your favourite chilli!

[Rhona]

I like whatever grows well that year. I love chillies, but other than the heat level (with a few exceptions), and as much as I love cooking, I cannot get excited about a particular chilli flavour as I honestly think it's negligible with many varieties.

[salilah]

Padron is relatively easy - sadly I never seem to get enough ripe at the same time to use as a starter! I was also very happy this year to have succeeded in getting 6 Facing Heaven - they are a Sichuan variety, I found the dried chillies in a Chinese supermarket and got some to germinate - they are quite rare so I was pleased. Not tried them yet though - they are used dried so mine are still sitting there on kitchen towel!

[Lisamcflisa]

for me my best this year was satan's kiss, it grew really easy, I struggled a bit to get it to go red, but when it eventually did it was really tasty when cooked but achingly hot at times, a definite for next year for me

[Jelliebabe]

I have grown Habaneros for the first time this year ans WOW they were amayzing! Fruity, good looking and hot hot hot! I grew orange, yellow and chocolate ones which were fiery! I also grew some Numex twilight which were easy to grow, prolific and also HHAAAAAWWWWTTTT!!!

[carolineholding]

Twilight -pretty

[fordlatch41]

Numex twilight takes first place in my greenhouse, so prolific and very attractive with all the different coloured chillies on the same plant, quite hot too!

[PyreneesPlot]

Another vote fo yellow fatalii. I love the sweet fruitiness that then turns round and gives you a great big wallop.

I also grow lots of serranos as they are easy, have a middling kick but freeze really well, both green and red.

And cayennes for drying...

And chocolate habaneros - a right swine to get going, but interesting fruit once they took off.

And jalapenos for pickling. Didn't get any this year so we are eeking out the last jar from 2011!

[Orwell]

This year I've got a load of Cayennes and Twilight to grow. I've also got some Scotch Bonnet and the monster Trindad Scorpion Butch T Chilli to try out. I'm not even sure i'll try the scorpion haha, i'll pass them off to anyone willing to try. I'll be sowing tomorrow.

[BertieFox]

Like the guy growing 'Gorria', a Basque variety, I would recommend the Espelette type pepper. The Espelette is a relatively mild pepper, fairly large and conical, but it produces a large vigorous plant and is quite easy. I've never understood the passion for very hot peppers which are almost inedible, but to have something you can use whole, to spice up a whole dish, is wonderful. The Espelette pepper is such a success that they have been made into an 'appellation' and it is now illegal to sell them unless they are grown in the Espelette area in the Pyrenees. We visited in the autumn and I now have lots of seed, but we grew the Gorria variety which worked wonderfully well this year.
These are the peppers used in most cassoulets and in Asturian fabada, both of which are unforgettable experiences.

[Paulieb]

As in the question.....I love all chillis.

This year I grew a whole range for different things:
Onza, Chenzo, Lemon Drop, Ring of Fire and Cayenne for adding to dishes one by one, and making chilli sauce and sweet chilli sauce. All good yield and fairly medium heat.
Onza is a big chilli plant (4ft) and had loads of chillis.
Chenzo is great for the trio of colours.

Then the Habaneros and Bhut Jolokia and great to add to batches of chilli sauces, and also give away to suprise your friends who think supermarket chillis are 'not that hot'!!
(I just warn them not to ruin a whole meal with it!)

[SarzWix]

If I had to choose just one, it would be Cherry Bomb, they've always grown well for me and they also seem to quite happily over-winter and crop again the following year as long as I can keep the pesky cats off them...

[legume]

Chilli Anaheim, because it was my very first try at growing chillis last year, and despite me (not knowing any better) planting it in the greenhouse border so it got swamped by the tomatoes, it did very well and produced plenty of beautiful long red chillis with hardly any effort or care. Lovely taste too.

[PMW]

Fairy Lights has impressed me.

I have a plant in the blowaway that still has leaves and 6 chillis still left on it and another small plant in flower on a windowsill that germinated in August amongst my leeks! It must have come from a seed that went into the compost heap the previous year.

[Andromeda]

Jalapeno are probably my favourite to grow...because they're my favourite to eat! I've yet to meet a chilli I don't like, but the Jalapeno is always perfect.

[areia]

jalapeno i forgot what my other chilli was ( ops ) but ive just picked the last jalapenos last week, its been neglected and all sorts and it still wanted to please