There's plenty of fruit beginning to set on the chillies but we still need sun to get it ripen. So, a little more sunshine would be greatly appreciated.
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| Loco |
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| Padron |
I manged to blow my head off with a plateful of Padrons the other day. I endured a searing heat that had my eyes watering, nose running and about 20 minutes of stomach cramps.
Damn tasty though!
What is supposed to be a mild, sweet chilli with a 10% chance of being hot seems to consistently produce scorchingly hot fruit. It's not just my plants either - the Padron plants that I gave to Claudio produce similarly hot fruit (although his chillies are significantly larger than mine).
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| Twilight |
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| Hungarian Hot Wax |
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| Yellow Scotch Bonnet |
The Red Scotch Bonnet plant is beginning to set fruit as well although it's about a month behind its yellow cousin. Moving the plants outside has certainly slowed them down but with the windowsills overloaded and the constant aphid attacks, it was the best solution.
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| Explosive Ember |
Explosive ember is a very pretty ornamental chilli with deep purple leaves and fruit. It's a much more compact bush than the similarly coloured Orozco and I suspect would be better suited to a windowsill rather than Orozco's spreading habit.
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| Balloon |
I'm gearing up to a chilli jam making session this weekend so I'm hoping for a few more fruit to ripen to add to the stockpile in the freezer. Hopefully I'll have enough to make a couple of batches of jam at different heats depending on people's bravery and spice tolerance.
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