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#1 Peckoltia

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Posted 20 December 2016 - 11:36 AM

G'day

 

I love my spicy foods, and every year I grow a few plants. 

 

I normally germinate my own seeds, this year I bought seedlings instead as well as a couple of plants I over wintered from last year. 

 

This season I have. 

- 2 Golden Cayenne Peppers (over wintered from last year) doing really well with a few pods on each plant and loads of flowers - should be a decent crop from them.

- 2 Bhut Jolokia. First time with these, so far so good. Just starting to flower. Apparently they need a bit of help pollinating flowers, so I'll get the paint brush out once theirs a few more flowers. 

- 1 Orange Habanero. Flowering and just starting to pod. 

- 1 Black Pearl. Flowering and just starting to pod. 



#2 Hood

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Posted 20 December 2016 - 12:04 PM

Nice one man. Yeah been growing chilli's for a while now. Too many varieties to list. Make a few of my own hot sauces, dry some to make powders and even make a tropical Chilli desert sauce which I enjoy also. I run the perth Chilli lovers group on FB. You got some nice ones there. The golden cayenne a are nice, I use them with a few other yellows in my tropical Chilli desert sauce. Black pearls aren't that hot or anything, but really striking plant. I grow two in big pots by the front door. Bhut jolokia are one of my favs when it comes to super hots. Nice smokeyness to the flavor I find. I havn't really had to help mine with pollination, just don't let them get too hot, the super hot days tend to cause pod/flower drop in my experience. And habs are just a great alrounder. Though my fav for eating would probably have to be it's cousin the scotch bonnet. Just a bit more fruitiness to the flavor. Keep us posted with how you go and pics of pods. Everyone loves pod porn. :) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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#3 Peckoltia

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Posted 20 December 2016 - 12:13 PM

Nice post some pics of your plants/pods. 

 

Yeah I agree on the Black Pearl - I just liked the look of the plant so got one. Should have really grabbed a few of them. 

 

I was surprised last time I went into bunnings that they actually stock a half decent selection - i have always got seeds from seed banks because the selection is much greater. 

 

The weird thing about the bhut jolokia is - every article of have read says that love heat and getting smashed by sun, but anyone I have spoken to with personal experience says the same as you, be careful on really hot days. I have mine in a pot under a fern, get a good amount of sun, but the fern does a good job shielding the brunt of the mid day sun. 



#4 Hood

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Posted 20 December 2016 - 12:34 PM

I cleared a lot of chilli pics not long ago to save some storage space for photo jobs. Let me see what I still have lying around in my photobucket account...

These are from my Bhut jolokia x 7 Pod
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This is one of my Chocolate brainstrains, I did this as a product shoot for 'Wildfire Chilli', this pic is used on their labels for this strain
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This is one of my Butch T just colouring up
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Jalapenos
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Serrano
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Pequin
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This is a young Black pearl
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Small Purple Cayenne
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Hungarian blacks
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Yellow Maruga Scorpions
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#5 Hood

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Posted 20 December 2016 - 01:10 PM

Another product shot, orange hab this time
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And another product shot, Orange brainstrain this time
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Fatalli
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Bhut Jolokia colouring up
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Here are some pics of Chilli Pickins
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Here are a couple of my sauces, Yolo tropical hot desert sauce
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Choc, plum, chilli bbq sauce, goes great with wings.
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Hoodlum hot stuff, my original hot sauce
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...and one sexy Chilli to finish on. ;)
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I have heaps more varieties, but there is just a taste of a few quick shots from my photobucket. :)

#6 Peckoltia

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Posted 20 December 2016 - 01:25 PM

Awesome pictures!

 

I really like the group shots of all the pods, something about the different colours and shapes agrees with my brain. 

 

Do you over winter your plants? Some look a pretty good size to be grown again every 'season'.

 

When do the bhut jolokia fruit until?

 

What fertilisers do you use? I have only ever really used a bit of NPK mixed into my pots before transplanting seedlings, and the odd sprinkling of the granular NPK every 4 - 6 weeks. 

 

I have just started to use seasol too (i know technically not a fertiliser).



#7 Hood

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Posted 20 December 2016 - 01:33 PM

Yeah I over winter most plants if I can. Depends on the winter and how bad frost gets on how many years I keep the plants going before re germinating.

As for food, I try to keep it organic as possible. So cow poo in the early grow stages switching to chicken poo for bloom phases. Trace elements and potash every few weeks through fruiting and fish water throughout. :)


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Posted 20 December 2016 - 01:41 PM

Wow, Hoods that's impressive, I have a 6'x3' vegie patch with 6 random chilli trees I bought from a local market, all growing spastic, as for what kinds I'm totatlly unsure, but they all appear and taste different, I too love food with a kick and like to make my eyes water and sweat whilst eating haha!! Ill try get some pics and maybe Hood can help idea them, I know I definelty have a Japeno tree, half of the plants are 2 years old this summer and still give me a good 20 odd random chillis a week between them all.

 

All I do is water with fish tank water and that's it, what should I give as a food to benefit the plants?


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Posted 20 December 2016 - 04:29 PM

I have Carolina Reapers, Bhut Jolakia, Jonah 7 pots, maruga scorpions, chocolate brainstrains growing.

 

I have some dry pods from Carolina reapers if you want seeds?



#10 Peckoltia

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Posted 20 December 2016 - 05:15 PM

Storm - great list of chillies! My addictive personality kicked in this afternoon and picked up two Carolina reapers and three Trinidad scorpions! Otherwise I would have hit you up for some seeds. That should do me for this season.

#11 Hood

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Posted 20 December 2016 - 09:06 PM

 
All I do is water with fish tank water and that's it, what should I give as a food to benefit the plants?


This time of year just try a little chicken poo, like rooster booster from bunnings then give them some trace elements and pot ash and you'll be sitting in heaps of flowers then nice big pods in just a few weeks. :)

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Posted 21 December 2016 - 06:49 AM

I usually grow a bunch but this year all i have going is a two year old orange Habanero that is going freaking nuts in my front garden bed.

 

Last year I had: Orange and brown Habs, Black pearls, Purple cayenne, Trinidad scorpion, Peruvian yellow, Bhut jolokia, pequin and Vietnamese birds eye.

 

Trouble is i could never bloody eat them all and most of the people I know are pansies when it comes to a bit of heat!



#13 Peckoltia

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Posted 21 December 2016 - 08:57 AM

Might need to grab some chicken crap. 

 

Planted the reapers and the scorpions in a garden bed last night - first time I've planted chillies in the ground (usually pots). They are planted fairly close to a pony tail palm, that provides some shade during the middle of the day (maybe blocks 50%) so hopefully the hot summer sun doesn't give them too much of a cooking. 

 

Now have carolina reapers, trinidad scorpions cardi, black pearl, orange habaneros, yellow thai and bhut jolokia. 

 

Should do me now.



#14 Peckoltia

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Posted 04 January 2017 - 09:30 AM

How's everyones plants going?

 

Been brutally hot last couple of days and windy over the last couple of weeks. Seems most of my plants have got through the weather alright except the orange hab's that have dropped a few flowers through stress.



#15 Mattia

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Posted 04 January 2017 - 09:39 AM

If anyone makes ground/powdered chilli and wants to sell some id be happy to buy a couple of containers! Love it on pasta especially ;)

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Posted 04 January 2017 - 09:53 AM

My orange hab is going nuts even though I'm ignoring it. Mattia I'm happy to give you a bunch of chillis from my plant when they are ready if you want to have a crack at making your own?

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Posted 04 January 2017 - 01:57 PM

Thanks for the offer ice, I've tried many times to grow chillies but can't even grow plastic ones, gave up last time when I killed the Trinidad scorpion :/

My uncle had a powder made of a mix of a couple different varieties, it was tha bomb!!
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#18 ice

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Posted 04 January 2017 - 02:24 PM

I meant making your own powder rather than growing them, it usually has quite a good little crop when they are ripe which you're more than welcome to take to make chilli powder/flakes out of. I live in huntingdale.



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Posted 31 January 2017 - 09:10 PM

Big Thanks to "ice" for bringing me so much chilli!! :)

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I have made my chilli oil and powder, I'll try it soon and let you know how hot it is! :D

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What variety is it?

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Posted 31 January 2017 - 09:16 PM

Brown habanero brother, no worries at all!




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