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Produce => Edible Plants => Chillies Ahoy => Topic started by: mummybunny on July 04, 2009, 18:00:20

Title: How do you harvest chillies?
Post by: mummybunny on July 04, 2009, 18:00:20

Hi,

Might be a silly question but how do you harvest chillies when there ready? Do you cut them off pull them off i just have no idea and cant find anything telling me how to do it correctly?

Thanks Lucy

Title: Re: How do you harvest chillies?
Post by: tim on July 04, 2009, 18:31:15

I don't think there is a correct way.

We just break them off, but cutting should be fine, too.

Title: Re: How do you harvest chillies?
Post by: ceres on July 04, 2009, 19:13:14

Snip them off with scissors or secateurs.  If you want to string them up to store, leave a short length of the stem attached. 

Title: Re: How do you harvest chillies?
Post by: mummybunny on July 04, 2009, 21:36:58

Thanks  ;D

Title: Re: How do you harvest chillies?
Post by: chriscross1966 on July 11, 2009, 00:27:36

If it's a hot one then wearing gloves.... made that mistake with some habaneros..... found every little cut on my hand from a mornings weeding.....the agony was exquisite....

Title: Re: How do you harvest chillies?
Post by: Gobby on July 11, 2009, 16:36:45

Not as bad as my favourite of wiping my streaming eye's after collecting some bhut jaloki....you could hear the scream from down the road....   :'(

Title: Re: How do you harvest chillies?
Post by: Biscombe on July 25, 2009, 08:31:22

Be careful, some plants can have quite brittle stalks, so with an over enthusiastic yank you could snap off half the plant!

Title: Re: How do you harvest chillies?
Post by: amphibian on August 05, 2009, 21:04:45

i don't cut them off, I gently take hold of the stem at the fruit bearing node and gently lift the pepper up and back, it just slips off the plant, leaving no stalk left in the node and no serious wound.

It's an action very hard to describe, but it is similar to the one I use to harvest tomatoes, well the ones that have a knuckle thingy.

Title: Re: How do you harvest chillies?
Post by: saddad on August 10, 2009, 22:25:20

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Not as bad as my favourite of wiping my streaming eye's after collecting some bhut jaloki

Just don't pick your nose or relieve your self!!  ;D