What chilli variety are you growing

[Gren]

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

I throw mine whole into curries and chillis. A single habanero will add a decent bit of kick to anything without being over the top. The crop from a single plant can go a long way like that. I'm just finishing off last year's crop - from one orange habanero plant

[More basil]

I pickled a whole lot last year in a brine made of 2/3 white wine vinegar 1/3 boiled water and a good measure of salt, flavoured with bay leaf and tarragon. They are a great condiment, a bit like the pickled peppers you can buy in middle eastern shops only more crunchy and with interesting flavours. Make a cut lengthways in the chillies so they don't float and pack them tightly in kilner jars.

I'm growing

Ring of fire
Vegetarian ( a favourite with the slugs, sigh)
Rocotillo
Aji Lemon
Hungarian hot wax
And espelettes

[ButternutSquash]

I throw mine whole into curries and chillis. A single habanero will add a decent bit of kick to anything without being over the top. The crop from a single plant can go a long way like that. I'm just finishing off last year's crop - from one orange habanero plant

I don't know about you, but with Capsicum chinense it is not the heat but the flavour that excels. There is heat, but the flavour is unique. There are heatless forms, I grew some once.

[More basil]

ButternutSquash- I have been looking for a mild variety of Capsicum Chinense with that gorgeous fruity flavour. What variety did you grow?

[Scarlet]

ButternutSquash- I have been looking for a mild variety of Capsicum Chinense with that gorgeous fruity flavour

This might help you!
http://www.refiningfirechiles.com/chinense.html

[ButternutSquash]

ButternutSquash- I have been looking for a mild variety of Capsicum Chinense with that gorgeous fruity flavour. What variety did you grow?

It was many years ago, and all I can remember was that they came from a small UK grower, maybe Simpsons, or Real Seeds known as Vida Verde back then. Google Aji Dulce. for example:

Aji Dulce Chilli Seeds

They were not as good as hot ones, but quite nice. Ask on Chillis Galore, you'll get good replies.

[ButternutSquash]

Simpsons Seeds have Vegetarian which is a mild C. chinense. I have had poor results with Simpsons Seeds, but others seem to find them okay.

[Richard Eldritch]

I'm doing Prairie Fire- a small bush type with masses of hot little peppers, Joes Long- a really long milder pepper, and a super hot Naga jolokia just for fun.

[Chilli-head Huw]

I am growing:
1 naga - 6 fruits and lots of flowers
3 scotch bonnet red - no fruits, lots of flowers
1 paper lantern - no flowers yet but a big plant
1 jalapeno - some fruits and flowers
6 peruvian purple - lots of flowers and a few fruits on each
6 apache - loads of fruits on each
1 thai demon - lots of flowers and some fruits
1 explosive ember - lots of flowers
1 volcano - lots of flowers and some fruits
I tried overwintering a few plants but after initially looking ok they all dried out so had to start again this year. I hope to overwinter with more success this year.

[Moopmoop]

I only have 3 plants this year, scotch bonnet big sun, demon red and Fresno supreme. I'm going to donate the big sun to my brother as he has a porch area that is a total sun trap. Last year I gave him 3 chilli plants, one of them was a scotch bonnet and it grew to a few feet tall and produced loads of fruit. I've over wintered chilli's before with reasonable success. I started my plants off pretty late in the season, probably July time and got a reasonable harvest before the plant packs in for winter, then all I did was prune it and left it to live on the kitchen windowsill like a naked bonsai. I think it was about early March time it came back to life and I had a chilli crop shortly after May.

[Canny Grower]

Apache is our favourite. It's dependable, prolific and tasty.