So who's growing chillies this year?

[Clint]

with there already some nice chilli pictures posted I thought you all might like to see my...giant cabbages!!

 

[uDicko]

View attachment 19262 with there already some nice chilli pictures posted I thought you all might like to see my...giant cabbages!!

I think this needs a banana for scale Clint.

 

[Snoop]

Here are mine, in their growbag greenhouse. They are a mix of jalapenos, cayenne and habanero, though sadly I have lost track of which are which.
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I made a watering system out of some copper pipe and fittings (left).

The hab will be well slower growing than the jalepeno. I'd imagine the middle sized one will be you cayenne. So you'll know soon enough.

 

[Clint]

Metal frame,wood,top centre of pic to lettuce/wooden border edge top right of pic is 3ft wide.

 

[Oneflewover]

How about this - Vietnamese coriander. New one on me. Dad was growing some and gave me a plant. Anyone any experience of growing it or cooking with it?

 

[Clint]

Are you sure you don't need Rizzlas with that?

 

[Oneflewover]

Are you sure you don't need Rizzlas with that?

Hahaha! Don't think so Clint!

It's this stuff. Haven't used any yet.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persicaria_odorata

Edit: previous link didn't work

 

[uDicko]

Are you sure you don't need Rizzlas with that?

I immediately jumped to this conclusion!

 

[Oneflewover]

I immediately jumped to this conclusion!

Jeez, I wouldn't break forum rules

Looks completely different, well from memory anyway!

 

[Clint]

Yes...they have a ragged edge to the leaf...

 

[Oneflewover]

Yes...they have a ragged edge to the leaf...

Do they indeed?

Anyway, has anyone got experience of Vietnamese coriander?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Yes...they have a ragged edge to the leaf...

Well spotted Clint.

 

[Clint]

Your spare bedroom looks great!

 

[IainM]

How about this - Vietnamese coriander. New one on me. Dad was growing some and gave me a plant. Anyone any experience of growing it or cooking with it?
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Yeah, I've got one of those. Someone at my old work gave me a cutting of it. It grows like crazy but has started turning red for some reason. It's probably due for potting up and it doesn't like being without water. I find it has a very strong taste, so use sparingly. To be honest, I prefer normal coriander, but a few thinly sliced leaves does wonders for a pho, much like a few kaffir lime leaves in a Thai curry.

 

[Oneflewover]

Yeah, I've got one of those. Someone at my old work gave me a cutting of it. It grows like crazy but has started turning red for some reason. It's probably due for potting up and it doesn't like being without water. I find it has a very strong taste, so use sparingly. To be honest, I prefer normal coriander, but a few thinly sliced leaves does wonders for a pho, much like a few kaffir lime leaves in a Thai curry.

Cheers @IainM , very helpful. Yeah I found that it likes plenty of water, and it certainly has grown prodigiously

 

[foxbat]

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Yup, I've got some chillies on, but no where near as many as last year, which was my first with some space to grow them (34 varieties, 59 plants). Overwintered, I have 3 Carolina reapers, a moruga brainstrain, a trinidad perfume, a chocolate doughlah, a peach scorpion, a fatalli, two 7 pot primo and a bhut jolokia. I've had a few ripe fatalli and peach scorpions already off them already. Grown this year I have a few varieties of jalapeno, some padron (because they're delicious), antep aci dolma, spaghetti (thank @Oneflewover!), thunder mountain longhorn, charapita, white fatalli, orange habaneros and peach ghosts. I think this is enough, considering I still have a freezer drawer full of chillies from last year.

Your greenhouse must look awesome in summer when the plants have got all the fruit on them. Would you be able to recommend a mild, sweeter variety that would blend well with a hotter one? I'm thinking of making up my own dipping sauce for nachos, crisps and stuff.

 

[Oneflewover]

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Your greenhouse must look awesome in summer when the plants have got all the fruit on them. Would you be able to recommend a mild, sweeter variety that would blend well with a hotter one? I'm thinking of making up my own dipping sauce for nachos, crisps and stuff.

I'd always recommend Hungarian Hot Wax to fit those criteria. It's about 6k scoville heat units (so mild), fleshy and sweet when ripe, easy to grow and reliable, early to fruit.

 

[VW911]

Gusto Purple is quite similar to the Hungarian, maybe slightly hotter but even earlier to fruit...

If anyone is serious about chillis, Simpsons Seeds near Warminster in Wiltshire is well worth a visit.

 

[Oneflewover]

Gusto Purple is quite similar to the Hungarian, maybe slightly hotter but even earlier to fruit...

If anyone is serious about chillis, Simpsons Seeds near Warminster in Wiltshire is well worth a visit.

+1 for Simpsons seeds. The owner (Matt Simpson?) is very knowledgeable and helpful too. They do mail-order.

Seaspring seeds (developer of Dorset Naga) is just down the road from me and I'd heartily recommend them too.

 

[GerritT]

I wish I had, it would be lovely to make my own sambal.