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Is this chilli too light green?
I have never grown chillies before, but my plants seem to be doing well. I am getting chillies now, but they seem quite light green. Is this normal? They don't look like the ones from the supermarket. They are pretty big - shall I harvest them now to encourage others to grow.
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Chillies come in all different shapes, sizes and colours. Do you know the variety you're growing?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Ah well, now that's interesting. I've just gone back to the seed packet, and it is Country Value (Hot) Chilli Mixed, which claims to be 'assorted shapes and colours with different degrees of heat, from mild to really hot!' I sowed them on the assumption I would fail (I sow most things I have never grown before on this assumption!) but they all germinated. I have potted on regularly, and was just wondering if the light colour meant that they needed more feeding? On the seed packet there are red ones and dark green ones, in the larger, fatter style, and some light green ones which look like french beans.
Banana chillis are pale yellowy-green - they're quite mild.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I wonder if they are quick to mature? I will look this up, because the plants with these chillies on are definitely pretty swift out of the blocks. The one in the picture is as long as my middle finger, so maybe I should pick it?? (Dying to try one!!)
Just looked up banana chillies - I think you are definitely right Dove - the pictures do look just like mine. Didn't realise I was growing different sorts - was mainly attracted to the 89p price tag on the seeds
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I saw some banana chilli plants at the GC today - I managed to resist them - but they're calling me ..................
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Not sure about banana chillies but like peppers, chillies change colour, they maybe pale green now but if left will possibly go a black colour before yellow.
I'm no expert but have a couple of different chilli varieties growing this season, without going out to the GH one is apache from saved seeds, they start off green, go black, then red. You can pick when green but you get less heat from them, chillies are hotter if left to mature.
If the leaves on the plant are healthy and yours look fine, wait and see what grows from the other chilli plants, a mixed variety is likely to produce some pleasant suprises
Thanks Zoomer - maybe I will leave them for a bit longer then. Yes, the leaves on the plants are all pretty healthy looking - I have quite a chilli jungle out there. I didn't think they would be producing fruit this early, and I didn't think they would get so large - I thought they grew on windowsills, but these are chasing the tomatoes. By contrast the bell pepper plants, which were only seed sown a couple of weeks later are small compact plants - healthy again, but more the size I would expect chilli plants to be. It's all very exciting - I believe Apache is very good indeed - from more than one source.
Sounds like you are well ahead. Mine don't have flowers yet and this year decided not to grow peppers, there just isn't enough room in the GH.
Apache dry well too, I've still a jar full from last year and I'm convinced they are even hotter when dried.