Heatwaves may have caused carnage around the UK but my very Northern bonnets have blown up this year. Got a big haul in the freezer and 18 of these turning now. Bought as a 6" plant 3yrs ago.
Picked my first ripe cherry bomb chilli pepper today!
However, the rest on the 3 plants I have are all still completely green.
What should I do with this one? Taste it? Stuff it and eat it? Fridge/freeze it till the others ripen and pickle the lot?
It's my first time growing chillies/peppers of any kind and I'm just amazed that any of them made it this far so not quite sure what to do at this stage as I didn't think this far ahead.
Any tips for pickling would be appreciated too!
Hello , I planted this bhut jolokia who was supposed to be chocolate one from grains. But turned out it s not , can someone tell me what it is then ?
Would you remove the lower leaves or the 1s with the yellow spots and leave the healthy 1s ? Never grown a Scotch Bonnet plant or anything for that matter.
I did buy it with 2 already growing then another 8 appeared so not grown from seed.
There are White spots on the underside of my Carolina reaper leaves. The leaves Turn Brown. Can you help me?
Please could someone ID this beauty? It’s self set and I have no idea other than it’s a chilli. Thanks!
They are simply labeled as “snack chilli”. When I got the plant all of the chiles were green and ripened into red. My guess is jalapeños but lmk if I’m wrong
As the title says, i made chilli vodka with chillis and it went so so well, my friends called me crazy but genuinely this is a must try. The flavour i got was oddly caramelly, very sweet and sugary and intensely hot.
Very intense heat but fades within five minutes. Can recommend growing
How would i go about drying out quite a few jalapeños to turn into a seasoning powder, how long would it take to dry them out too
My chillis (not sure what type, but second picture is what they look like when red) have been growing in a raised garden bed for over a year now and have been doing fantastic, however, since im moving i wanted to bring them with me and now they look extremely sad. Its been about 3 days since potting them, is there anything i can do to fix this?
Ps, i potted them with a compost soil blend made for tomatoes and capsicums, blood and bone and some small rocks for drainage.
I'm looking for a recipe that appeared on multipack boxes of cans of rotel. The recipe was for pork green chili and it included pork, hatch chilis and rotel. If anyone has a copy of this recipe I would love it. I have tried some online versions but none are quite the same. Thank you in advance
i decided to cut a chilli without gloves as i completely forgot to. afterwards, i washed my hands and thought nothing of it. i later went to play basketball and noticed a slight burning but ignored it (i thought the irritation was from playing basketball with freshly cut fingernails idk). i then came home to eat my chilli dish, chimichurri sauce, which is when the pain really began. that was around 9pm, it is now 12:45am and the burning sensation has only worsened.
i’ve tried washing with water and dish soap, milk, taking ibuprofen but nothing has worked.
if anyone has any suggestions please let me know as i can’t do this much longer.
Little experiment... planted five seeds from a "Habanero" bought at the local grocery store. Got 3 seedlings that grew inside with cheap growlights for the first 2-3 weeks. Repotted one of them in regular plant soil (added vermiculite and perlite) and moved to a grow cabinet with 100w fullspectrum light, controlled humidity (around 50%) and ventilation. 12 hours of light every day. Daytemp have been between 24 and 28 celcius, night 18 to 22.
Another one stayed inside with natural light only for a couple of weeks, then moved outside in a spot shielded from winds. Temps has been varying between 20 to 32, and 15 to 20 in the nights.
The difference is.... yeah..., huge 🙌
Im kind of giving up on the smaller one, but moved it inside again now as temps at nights are already dropping to 10-12 celcius.
Should i start feeding the big one?
Why is it only growing tall but no branches?
Should I prune it at the top?
The spicy oil that Fresh puts on their “dragon fries” is delicious and I need it for home!
When I order the dragon fries, I always ask the restaurant for extra on the side, so i have a bit if it for a few days. I would prefer to be able to either:
(a) buy a larger quantity of it from Fresh directly;
(b) buy an identical / very similar oil of a different brand; or
(c) find a recipe that exactly replicates it so I can make it myself.
I’ve tried making the oil at home a number of times with slightly different variations. I mostly tried different combinations of sunflower and olive oil with dried arbol chillies, either marinated in the oil, or steeped by bringing the oil just to a boil before adding the chillies and then taking it off the heat. Nothing even comes close.
If any one has any leads, please share!
*Fresh is a vegan restaurant with locations around Ontario.
The oil from Fresh has a mild sunflower taste, is a reddish orange colour, is decently spicy, and doesn't have any bits in it at all, just pure oil.
My tiberius mauler was looking great until i noticed on my first 2 ripe chillis tiny little holes and when harvesting and cut open found tiny little larva inside :( how to prevent this? or is it too late? 2/2 first ripe chillis affected. Also tiny little black dots inside😭