Topic: Chilli grow 2020

[livo]

I've considered that but there really is absolutely no possibility.  I'm dumbfounded.

[Garp]

Getting to the end of the season here in Scotland.

Happy to say my Reapers are starting to ripen

[Robbo141]

Garp, those Reapers look great / horrible / beautiful / vicious / evil.  I was so excited to grow them a few years ago and had a great harvest but boy, are they out of my league to eat. Tried the finest sliver raw and still shudder to think about that experience.  The best thing for me with them was to smoke them then grind to what I termed Volcano Dust.

This season has been odd.  Here we are and the majority of my habaneros are still to ripen.  Getting closer daily, but we

[Garp]

Thanks Robbo. They are way out of my league too. Will just use them (sparingly) to make chilli sauce.

Last year I tasted a little bit of a Ghost pepper and then drank a pint of milk, so not even going to attempt the raw reaper, though I did pluck a small ripe one and cut it open and licked the inside. That was enough for me

Nice plump habaneros - hope they ripen up

[Robbo141]

First pickings, very late in the season.  Habaneros and cayenne.  Time to fire up the smoker.


Robbo

[Garp]

Nice mate. How do you smoke them?

[Robbo141]

I have a smoker in my back yard.  Wood chips (normally hickory) and charcoal.  Same thing we use to smoke pork butt / shoulder.  Just put the habs on a tray and smoke till they

[Onions]

Nice mate. How do you smoke them?

Rizla and a B&H usually   

[Garp]

Thanks Robbo, lmao Onions 

[livo]

One of my Rajah plants has already produced first flower buds. I haven't tipped any of my plants and I'm not sure I will. All of them seem to be doing a fair job of bushing out without my intervention. If they start looking too vertical I may do some tipping later.  At the moment the side shoots are growing pretty well without pinching the main top shoot.

Do any of our other growers use heavy tipping as appears to be the general "advice" on increasing pod numbers?

What fertiliser program do you use? Organic, mineral, hydroponic?  All of my plants are currently in soil but I'm going to put my next batch in hydro.