I'm pleased with the progress mine are making this year. 'Sicily' is about two foot high and hardened off outside. The rest will be grown on the kitchen windowsill and are pictured below. :) G x
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y30/georgie_girl15/Edibles/ChilliThaiHotMay08.jpg)
Chilli Thai Hot, currently a diminutive 15cm.
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y30/georgie_girl15/Edibles/ChilliYellowMay08.jpg)
Chilli 'Yellow' - variety unknown. About 35cm tall
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y30/georgie_girl15/Edibles/ChilliTrifettiMay08.jpg)
Chilli Trifetti, 40cm tall
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y30/georgie_girl15/Edibles/ChilliTrifettidetailMay08.jpg)
Chilli Trifetti detail. Love the flowers and the leaf markings.
Brilliant Chillies Georgie, wish mine were half as good but mine seem really slow this year.
Sinbad
mine have been slow to. They are about 10 cm now so not big at all
Mine are doing pretty much as yours are Georgie. Only thing is, I got a pack of mixed chillies, so not too sure what varieties I have. Should be fun ;D
Just wish. What a year!!
my chillis are still small only at 2nd leaf stage but i was late planting them because of my greenhouse being trashed.
Mine are nothing like those. Some have 6 leaves on them, but 10cm tall at best.
Also put a few outside before this weekend and I reckon the cold will check their progress for a while.
Some went into greenhouse so won't have felt it so much.
Just found a chilli on one of my Fresno plants!!!
most of my chilli plants are about 6 inches tall but last year i over wintered a demon red on my kitchen windowsill and it is now flowering so will be doing same again with demon red and prairie fire
Quote from: lee79 on May 27, 2008, 11:14:11
Mine are doing pretty much as yours are Georgie. Only thing is, I got a pack of mixed chillies, so not too sure what varieties I have. Should be fun ;D
LOL. Post some pics when they are ready and we can play 'name that Chilli'. ;D
G x
Quote from: Tin Shed on May 27, 2008, 13:02:56
Just found a chilli on one of my Fresno plants!!!
Pic! Pic! Pic! ;D ;D ;D
G x
My Maules Red Hot and Red Ricoto (or Rocoto) chilli varieties are both about 30cm tall. I bought them both because they were supposedly better in shadier conditions, however I doubt I will be putting them outside up here.
The hairy leaved Red Ricoto can be kept as a perennial.
Check this out.... http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/pepper/msg111639367464.html
Most of my 120 varieties are flowering about 10 or so have fruit, my over wintered criolla sella is in the lead with full size fruits, waiting the beauties to turn from green to orange.
The trifetti looks like variegata, does it have dark red fruits about 3/4 inch long?
Most of mine are under 3 inches, with some shooting ahead at 8-10 inches.
I think I've got about 90 plants covering 26 varieties.
I'm keeping one of each in the greenhouse and the rest are going on my allotment.
Ours are in the 6-10 leaf stage still, lots for sale at the weekend! Ring of Fire, Habanero, etc..... ;D
Quote from: dtw on May 27, 2008, 21:08:48
The trifetti looks like variegata, does it have dark red fruits about 3/4 inch long?
I think so, then they turn purple. (First time I've grown them.)
G x
Quote from: Georgie on May 27, 2008, 18:09:10
Quote from: lee79 on May 27, 2008, 11:14:11
Mine are doing pretty much as yours are Georgie. Only thing is, I got a pack of mixed chillies, so not too sure what varieties I have. Should be fun ;D
LOL. Post some pics when they are ready and we can play 'name that Chilli'. ;D
G x
You read my mind! If (when) I get stuck identifying them I think I will have to.
Sorry the photos have taken so long - here they are!
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http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn51/cmchis/031.jpg
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn51/cmchis/034-1.jpg
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn51/cmchis/035.jpg
I hope that works!!
The top one should be Fresno and the second should be Chilli Heatwave!
Yes that works. I've got four tiny fruits at the last count but yours are much bigger. ;D
G x
;D
Just caught up with this, great plants Georgie! Mine looks just like that but the flowers keep dropping off. One chilli already making a break for adulthood, but doubtful about any more due to flower drop. Is it lack of pollination because it's indoors?
???
i have loads of chiliies on one plant average 1 to 2 inches long, one plant has a chilli about 5 inches long and another about 6 inches long, they are outside in an open plastic greenhouse just fed them and watered them i will take piccies later ;D
Quote from: katynewbie on June 03, 2008, 20:05:08
;D
Just caught up with this, great plants Georgie! Mine looks just like that but the flowers keep dropping off. One chilli already making a break for adulthood, but doubtful about any more due to flower drop. Is it lack of pollination because it's indoors?
???
I certainly lose some flowers in the early stages too which I put down to lack of pollination. I tap the stems gently each day and spray with tepid water too and after a while they seem to settle down.
G x
Mine are getting there, about 25% are fruiting, I'm urging them to change colour! I would say pretty purple and newmex twighlight are by far the prettiest so far!
I just started planting mine on the lottie today.
None are flowering yet, even though some were sown in february.
Have had a great success with chillies this year, all through laziness really - or putting off things!
First time ever I sowed Inferno F1 on 17th Jan, indoors on a windowsill. 8 plants grew well out of 10 sown. When about 2" tall they were pricked out into 11cm pots, and I did intend to put them outside when it was warm enough, but didn't get around to it ;D
They're now about 2 ft tall and although not absolutely loaded with fruit, they currently each have about 4 to 6 fruits on that measure 4 or 5" long. Trouble is, they look so good I'm a bit scared to put them out, as they've been in this draught-free environment inside the house for so long. But thoroughly recommend the variety.
yesterday I had one bright red mature fruit on one of my chilli bushes. Something's eaten it in the night
Something or someone?
My furthest-forward plant is a Cherry Bomb and the first couple of chillies are almost an inch across - full-size though still green. Husband is eyeing them up...
moonbells
Here's a picture up date on some of mine. G x
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y30/georgie_girl15/Edibles/ChilliTrifettiJune08.jpg)
Chilli Trifetti - now with tricolour foliage and lots of tiny fruits
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y30/georgie_girl15/Edibles/ChilliThaiHot13June08.jpg)
Chilli Thai Hot - the baby of the bunch
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y30/georgie_girl15/Edibles/YellowChillifruits13June08.jpg)
Chilli yellow detail - variety unknown
They look great G!
I've been given some cultivated land by my neighbor, so I have somewhere to plant out the rest of my chillies, the 90 or so in pots are looking good! Seeds saving going well, the tulle works a treat! I must take some pics!
What size pots do you use Georgie?
Quote from: grawrc on June 14, 2008, 07:48:33
What size pots do you use Georgie?
It depends, Anne. 'The baby' is in a 5" pot, Trifetti and Yellow are in 8" pots and Sicily (not pictured), a taller variety, are in 10" pots.
Look forward to your pictures, Biscombe. Ninety in pots? :o
G x
Had to start another row of pots! will take some pics later on today! stuck writing end of term reports at the moment! a real drag! I'm itching t get out into the garden!
Got a few fruits on Apache and Cayenne (I think, they are down at the lottie greenhouse). They look a bit wrinkly- is this normal to start with?
While we're on the subject of chillies, can anyone recommend a site that helps with the identification of them?
Thanks
Lee
http://www.thechileman.org/ is the dude!
Here's my chillies
Don't look at the weeding I have to do! ;)
Potted up, can't see the end of the line!
(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g220/Biscombe/DSCN0806.jpg)
Waiting to join the line!
(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g220/Biscombe/DSCN0810.jpg)
Kashmiri
(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g220/Biscombe/DSCN0804.jpg)
Royal Black
(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g220/Biscombe/DSCN0803.jpg)
Hungarian Hot Wax
(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g220/Biscombe/DSCN0795.jpg)
(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g220/Biscombe/DSCN0809.jpg)
Panted these 60 youngsters over the weekend on a plot my fab neighbour let me use
Eek, that last pic is making me feel nauseous, any chance of turning it round? ??? ;)
G x
oh dear, thought i had ??? will try again x
Will this work I wonder?
(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g220/Biscombe/DSCN0809.jpg)
Sod it G! turn your pooter round! ;)
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y30/georgie_girl15/Chillies.jpg)
Hope this works. ;D
G x
AhHa!! show off! ;) ;D
Quote from: Biscombe on June 17, 2008, 20:52:53
AhHa!! show off! ;) ;D
Only trying to help. :D
G x
;D ;D
Lucky you Biscombe! Great plot!
;)
Quote from: Biscombe on June 17, 2008, 20:02:52
http://www.thechileman.org/ is the dude!
Cheers Biscombe