Is anyone else experiencing some incredibly low ripening with some of their hotter varieties this year?
I thought the excessive heat and UV would have helped them along but I’ve only harvested one ripe red habanero.
My chocolate habaneros are waaayyy off. My plants are quite big and some have a lot of fruit set but just nothing turning colour at speed.
Abandoned the first one in a 3gallon pot but it’s clearly doesn’t care. The other is a ghost plant. Full grown cat for scale 😂. Both been outdoors since April.
Hi guys complete novice here at growing chillies, didn't think they'd all sprout but have lots of lil baby chilli plants now haha, would it be best to separate them now or wait till they'r a bit stronger?
Trying them tonight. Golden jabenero and 1 hot lemon.
Here a few I picked off this morning. Still got loads to pick when they're fully ripe. This is easily the best crop I've done with chillies,with size and yield. I've learned a lot and delt with any issues that have came up.
The small red one at the bottom is an Apache chilli. Only one that was red. Tbh the Apache blows the cayenne out the water for heat, tried both when green and Apache had my mouth burning, cayenne not so much. Yet to try the fully ripe cayenne yet, think I'm going to save them and make a chilli sauce and chilli oil.
My first chilli is turning red at last 🙂not sure what actually chilli plant it is🥴
Video credited to @malbafont_macrophotography on IG.
Are they meant to be this huge? This one's massive.
These were harvested yesterday and half of them were made into super hot sauce.
After dropping all of it's flowers in the may/June heatwave and raking some time to recover my Rocoto Mazano's are finally putting out flowers again. First Pod spotted!
I don't know if there's enough time left in the season for them to finish growing but I've got a redneck idea for keeping the greenhouse warm if it proper decides to cool off. Involving a bucket of water and a 300watt fish tank heater
I other news my Cayennes and Chinescher Runzelhauts are as tall as me and still fruiting like crazy. The Piri-Piri are doing very well now also and tonnes of jalepenos coming out now.
Just the pesky warthogs left to show a pod.... Got 3 or 4 flowers I've manually pollinated so 🤞
These were supposed to be Taj Mahal but I'm having my doubts!
I planted these (habanero and jalapeno respectively) on 22 February in heated propagators, and potted them on on 5 April. They've been in a greenhouse in South Wales. Other chillies planted at the same time (serrano, Trinidad perfume) have fruited and are ripening up by now, but the habaneros and jalapenos have barely started to flower, let alone fruit. Do you think that I'll get any chillies from them this year? I've grown them previously, and I don't remember them being this late, especially compared to other varieties
Most things failing at the allotment, but the chillies are thriving. A mix of Hungarian black, Unknown variety I have aptly called Geoff’s Chilli as he left it in the tunnel I took over, hot Thai, Biquino, habanero and scotch Bonney just coming
I have so many fruits on my plants, nothing is turning colour and they are huge!
(most recent photos at the end)
Hey! I'm having some issues.. I'm a first year grower and I have a ghost pepper plant alongside a carolona reaper.
I feel like I have been misdiagnosing the issue (using AI) and have been down several rabbit holes.
The ghost pepper started fruiting early, I looked one day a couple of months ago and there sat 2 chillis that don't even look to have ripened or grow much since it then stopped flowering entirely.
The reaper, has plenty of flowers and maybe 4/5 fruits but drops flowers constantly.
Originally I saw what looked to be spidermites, so sprayed with SB and neem oil. I then got predetory mites, but now looking under the leaves I see some new friends that AI has told me is either thrips or leafhopper nymphs.
Honestly I'm a bit lost, does anyone have any advice on what to do for the rest of the season and what to do next year?
I've come to terms with this year probably isn't going to be great, it's a learning curve and my first year after alll.
First harvest of this year. My plants are fruiting heavily, so more harvests to come 🙂
This little Hungarian Black was one of only two that survived being absolutely decimated by slugs on it's very first night outside. I'm so proud of it.
YOU CAN'T KILL ME, MOTHERFUCKER
I didn’t check my plants yesterday but checked them the day before. Came back today and found a lot of the plants have these mushrooms growing in the pots. Is it a problem or will it affect anything? I have removed all of the mushrooms from the pots (2nd picture).