What chilli variety are you growing

[Small pumpkin]

Sorry if this has been asked before. What varieties of chilli is everyone growing this year. I'm only growing 5 varieties that I have grown before the rest are all new to me, there's a couple of hot ones

Bhut Jolokia Ghost Chilli
Birdseye
Hot Banana
Indian Delhi Hot
Jalapeño
Black Naga
Numex Big Jim
Numex Piñata
Ring of Fire
Thai Dragon
Trinidad 7 pot Brain Strain
Trinidad Scorpion Butch T
Tropical Heat ( mix of Habanero & Scotch Bonnet)

I do wear gloves when handling the hot ones
At the moment I have Lots of flowers & one baby hot banana

[RaptorUK]

I'm only growing Bhut Jolokia Chocolate . . . they have been slow growing but I think I am about to get some flowers

[Bren In Pots]

This year I've not sown chilli seeds so I've only got my 2 overwintered Scotch Bonnets that was after looking in the freezer and seeing how many I'd got left from last year.

[ButternutSquash]

Hungarian Black: 5 or 6 plants. I have loads of flowers, and loads of pods, one turning red.
Rocoto: I have pods on the ~9 year old one, and proto-flowers on the 5 or 6 grown this year.
Paper lantern: 1 plant. From a garden centre, growing nicely, with flowers, but no pods yet.
Orange Habanero: 1 plant. Overwintered, loads of young pods, two ripe ones harvested.

Incidentally, shops such as ScrewFix do boxes of disposable gloves. having once deseeded loads of Jalapeno with my bare hands, and suffered hours of agony from red skin, I know that even mild chillis can hurt.

[chilli_grower]

THis years line up:

1 x overwintered hab orange
1 x overwintered red savina
1 x fairy light, now on it's 3rd year!

From seed this year:

apricot habanero
Caribbean hot
white habanero
cobra
ring of fire
nepalese snakebite
topik f1
jo's long
autumn desire
aji rainforest
demon red
lemon drop

All growing a bit slower than last year....

[rhonsal]

I have about 4 each of:

Lemon drop
Koral
Cayenne

Strating to flower well now and a few have just set!

[AllInContainers]

Five plants - one variety - Pyramid Rainbow

[Philthy]

This year:

x2 Purple Flash (variegated ornamental)
x1 Tokyo Hot
x1 Hot Lemon
x1 Bhut Jolokia
x1 Paper Lantern
x3 Carolina Reaper
x1 Fatalii
x2 Espelette
x1 Cayenne Golden
x2 Goat Horn

From 2013:

x1 Peter / Penis Pepper
x1 Thai Dragon
x1 Moruga Scorpian
x1 Fatalii
x1 Orange Thai
x1 Scotch Bonnet Red
x2 Chinese Black
x1 Peruvian Orange
x1 Pulla aka Jinta

From 2012:

x1 Hot Lemon (well over 1m high!)

[Tripmeup]

Anaheim by 6 (from self saved seed- really healthy plants with lots of fruit already)
Cayenne by 1
Filius Blue by 4
Habanero by 5
Hungarian Black Wax by 2 (thanks to Scarlet)
Jalapeno by 2...have eaten plenty of these already...
Orange (my name for it) by 4
Padron by 2
Scotch Bonnet by 1

Also have some late started Red Hab & Lemon Drop to overwinter (hopefully)

..still have some left in freezer from last year too

[sparrow100]

Over wintered lemon drop (1) and habanero (2)

Rocoto x 4 are small but flowering
Dedo di mocha x 2 are flowering
Padron x 2 have fruits already
Chenzo x 2 have fruits already, though look suspiciously like they aren't true seed (grrrrr)
Habanero from saved seed x 2 flowering
Orange sweet pepper x 1 very small because I've failed to pot it on.

[bario1]

What on Earth does everyone do with all these chillis? Does anyone actually use the superhots?

[chilli_grower]

YES! the superhots make the best sauces and jams!

The cayennes I use in curries (I eat a lot of curry).

[Philthy]

As chilli_grower said.

I also give quite a few away to friends / colleagues to try and then get their feedback.
A selection go into the freezer for the lean months
The bulk of my chillies though - maybe 2/3 of the total crop for the year - get dried and then flaked or powdered and made into various blends. I keep these in airtight jars and add a teaspoons worth to pretty up much everything I cook; sandwiches, omlettes, soup, bolognese, Indian, fish.. whatever.

[Green Gerkin]

Im feeling a bit left out as only growing two varieties;
Basket of fire and
A Spanish novelty variety (not sure I can mention the name on here!!)
I'm defiantly gonna try some of the chillies mentioned above next year.


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[ButternutSquash]

What on Earth does everyone do with all these chillis? Does anyone actually use the superhots?

I have finished the orange habaneros I grew last year and I am desperately waiting for replacements. I would not grow naga, far too hot for me. Capsicum annuum are too mild and boring.