Try growing from seedlings instead of seeds. You're wasting precious time growing from seeds in a very narrow window of time i.e. a typical english summer, especially up north. Either that or get a greenhouse. Doesnt have to be a big flashy glass one, you can get cheaper and smaller plastic ones. As you know they need full sun and lots of it which they wont get inside. It may be pretty rare to be sunny, but at least in a green house they will be warm enough to produce some fruit. If you have room outside you could even build yourself a small polytunnel. Just a few bits of PVC tubing bent over into a semi-circle and secured down with a clear plastic tarp over the top does well. Go a google for DIY polytunnel. I built one, one year using old tent poles from an old dome tent I had. It was like a bloody sauna! lol Down here in the cooler parts of Australia im pushing it to get a crop going from seed to fruit before it starts to get cold again.
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Steve

They look good! Its only 6.45am and im sitting here thinking how many hours until dinner!!
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Steve

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from burnley Steve... it's ether the dog or the kids that make a noise haha.
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Burnlehhh. I knew it!  Just down't road!

SteveAUS,

i don't know what the limit is for "dry powders" in a 300ml single portion of curry. CA's vindaloo has 20ml and i can now make that cook out using the extra water. i've not worked on using more powder (chilli) as i switched to using fresh chillies to get the vindaloo heat but adding them intially into a sauce. i've now added in the nagga chilli sauce which does the job very well.

links

http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=5224.msg53844#msg53844
http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=3908.msg35388;topicseen#msg35388

No worries, thanks for that. I only added one extra teaspoon of chilli powder so it was obviously in my method and not getting the timing right and not "cooking it out" properly. I dicked around with more base and water but by the time it was half decent the chicken breast was tough.
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Steve

Thanks for sharing Chris.

Loved your reaction to number 4 going under the grill! You said what I was thinking.

Cheers!
Steve