Chilli heads.

HA! we already got some of his stuff. Batch of 4, including the Reaper seal, which is incredible. We just slap it on everything. Whatever food comes along, the salt comes out. Lasts bloody ages too!

I've been through a whole tin since it launched and am halfway through my next tin. Brilliant, isn't it?

It was a slow start but my chillies (Zimbabwe Black and Padron) have started to flower

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Wow, that Zimbabwe Black is looking beautiful 🥰 never had one of those dark-leafed chili plants..

I got it in B&Q when my own seedlings looked like they were failing, the tiny flowers are pretty.

Anyone got a good recipe for a good chilli sauce? I've a glut of red chillies that need using up this weekend and there's more than I'd use normally before they go mouldy.

My first chilli plant is going great, keeping it outside at work. Any suggestions on when to harvest? Have one chilli in the middle going orange, others getting a purpleish hue. Basket of fire seeds...!

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Basically, chilis are ripe when they are completely / saturated in their "final" color - which with your plant seems to be dark purple.
Either find out what kind exactly you have there or just watch them, if they stop at purple or change colour once more (some do).

Thanks @salad-cunt. Im currently feeding them tomato feed.. advisable or leave them to whatever is left in the soil. Cheers

Yea, feeding is a good idea (using organic stuff ideally, if you plan on eating the fruit), and tomato feed is just fine 👍
Your plant looks very healthy, so it's all good - if you want a bigger plant / more fruit next year consider giving it a bigger pot.

I missed this, lots of ideas here, can be hard to read though.

https://www.chilipeppermadness.com/

Forgot what breed these are, took the big one to try even though it wasn't quite ready to be picked.

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Oh cool. Thanks. I'll have a look later, though I did use up the glut in a particularly hot chilli non carne.

lots of ideas here, can be hard to read though

Give “just the recipe” a go, for example:

https://www.justtherecipe.com/?url=https://www.chilipeppermadness.com/recipes/homemade-ketchup/

Haha. I haven't looked at the site yet, but I'm presuming by your link that it includes pages of bullshit about how the recipe originated and the kind of Proustian recollections each ingredient throws up whenever the author walks past a marketplace, etc. before you finally get to the recipe, yes?

Yea, with an extra helping of like/subscribe exhortations, hovering social media grot and the like.

Brilliant. I think I'm lucky in that pihole improves many bloaty sites so I dont see them at their worst but this is just perfection.

Hungarian hot wax? Looks like one I picked up from B&Q the other day.

Quite likely, one of the smaller pots I planted on from had that on the side, I then lost track of what was what though.

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nice

Not long now, I hope. Should be a good haul if they all ripen, keep me in chili sauce for quite some time

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looking good 🙂

Should I move this to a bigger pot?

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Not really / at least not right now.
The size of the pot is pretty much ok - bigger pot earlier in it's life might have given you a bigger plant but right now I wouldn't disrupt it, just let fruit become ripe and if you overwinter it you can give the plant a bigger pot next spring..