If you don't want to grow from seed then I cannot reccomend enough the south devon chillie farm plants my top pick would be the "super six"
This set is a selection of our favourite chillies on the farm:Twilight (40,000 SHU), Super (70,000 SHU),Orange Habanero (350,000 SHU), Red Scotch Bonnet (250,000SHU), Cherry Bomb(6,000SHU)and Santa Fe Grande) (5,000SHU).
I've grown Fresno, 2500 ~ 8000 SHU, Apache 8000 + SHU and two kinds of Kashmiri which are probably more like the Fresno, around 5000 SHU. The first one looked like the above, the second one was from some seed I got from dried Kashmiri ones I bought on line. Not great plants and not the best chillies unlike the first ones which were from seed I got from Waitrose dried Kashmiris I think they stopped selling them though. The Fresno are just hot enough for one for my pizza. The Apache can be too hot for a whole one. I'm not a chilli head.
Edd they are jalepeno and if you got them from the supermarket they probably were... Firecracker ( picture posted) is an excellent small bushy plant Ideal for window ledges as it has clusters of multi coloured fruit and is quite hot... GW has a free tomato and chilli offer with x3 great chillis although I have to say the scotch bonnet has a long fruiting/ripening season so outside wouldn't come to much.... Edd there are also some great black chillis that are compact pretty and heavy croppers black pearl is a good one
We grew chillies for the first time last summer - we bought 3 seedling Apache plants from the local GC and treated them much the same as we treated out outside tomato plant, but popped them into the mini-greenhouse to ripen. We had a fantastic harvest, used lots fresh and dried loads and loads of them and we're still using them.
Good heat but not burning, and with a good flavour too - worth trying Verdun
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Edd try soaking the seeds in cold tea overnight!( no milk or sugar lol) we were told at a Balinese chilli farm that the tanning replicated the acids of a birds stomach!!! I have a 95+ success rate germinating mine with no heated propogator just this a window ledge above a radiator and a freezer bag!!! I would be happy to send you some chilli bomb seeds if I want to pm me. As for why the jalepenos had no heat probably the same reason most supermarket food doesn't taste of anything!!!!
I was just looking through the Feb issue of GW magazine and they have a 4 page article on chillies and peppers with tips and troubleshooting. Might be worth a read.
Thanks garden maiden I will have a mooch missed that!!! I have just booked my tickets for the chilli fiesta at west dean 8-10th august this year..... It's well worth a visit it's a fun family day with everything chilli related plus you can wander through the amazing gardens at west dean ( near Chichester)
I agree Dove, Apache is a great cropper, I only had the one in 2012 and I'm still using them and I gave a load to my mum, and I expect what's left will last me until 2015. I dried mine too.
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If you don't want to grow from seed then I cannot reccomend enough the south devon chillie farm plants my top pick would be the "super six"
This set is a selection of our favourite chillies on the farm:Twilight (40,000 SHU), Super (70,000 SHU),Orange Habanero (350,000 SHU), Red Scotch Bonnet (250,000SHU), Cherry Bomb(6,000SHU)and Santa Fe Grande) (5,000SHU).
these varieties
I've grown Fresno, 2500 ~ 8000 SHU, Apache 8000 + SHU and two kinds of Kashmiri which are probably more like the Fresno, around 5000 SHU. The first one looked like the above, the second one was from some seed I got from dried Kashmiri ones I bought on line. Not great plants and not the best chillies unlike the first ones which were from seed I got from Waitrose dried Kashmiris I think they stopped selling them though. The Fresno are just hot enough for one for my pizza. The Apache can be too hot for a whole one. I'm not a chilli head.
Edd they are jalepeno and if you got them from the supermarket they probably were... Firecracker ( picture posted) is an excellent small bushy plant Ideal for window ledges as it has clusters of multi coloured fruit and is quite hot... GW has a free tomato and chilli offer with x3 great chillis although I have to say the scotch bonnet has a long fruiting/ripening season so outside wouldn't come to much.... Edd there are also some great black chillis that are compact pretty and heavy croppers black pearl is a good one
That is an amazing harvest, Pete! I wish my chili plants would grow like that
We grew chillies for the first time last summer - we bought 3 seedling Apache plants from the local GC and treated them much the same as we treated out outside tomato plant, but popped them into the mini-greenhouse to ripen. We had a fantastic harvest, used lots fresh and dried loads and loads of them and we're still using them.
Good heat but not burning, and with a good flavour too - worth trying Verdun
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Edd try soaking the seeds in cold tea overnight!( no milk or sugar lol) we were told at a Balinese chilli farm that the tanning replicated the acids of a birds stomach!!! I have a 95+ success rate germinating mine with no heated propogator just this a window ledge above a radiator and a freezer bag!!! I would be happy to send you some chilli bomb seeds if I want to pm me. As for why the jalepenos had no heat probably the same reason most supermarket food doesn't taste of anything!!!!
I was just looking through the Feb issue of GW magazine and they have a 4 page article on chillies and peppers with tips and troubleshooting. Might be worth a read.
Thanks garden maiden I will have a mooch missed that!!! I have just booked my tickets for the chilli fiesta at west dean 8-10th august this year..... It's well worth a visit it's a fun family day with everything chilli related plus you can wander through the amazing gardens at west dean ( near Chichester)
I agree Dove, Apache is a great cropper, I only had the one in 2012 and I'm still using them and I gave a load to my mum, and I expect what's left will last me until 2015. I dried mine too.