Chilli heads.

New hottest chilli
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67136085

Not fucking about either, 2.6 million on the Scovilles (about 1mil more than the previous record)

Pepper X
Same grower as the Carolina Reaper (previous hottest chilli) so seems to know what he is doing.

Have a couple of different pepper X sauces at home, tasty stuff.
Been out a while, Ed runs https://puckerbuttpeppercompany.com/

Some pepper X! Been working through The Last Dab for 2 years now, no suprises.. you don't need much to add flavour and spice to a dish.

He sells more dangerous stuff, look-up Chocolate Plague..

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https://youtu.be/hUYtDA7j19c?si=97I1sOB89AEoQppi

Just watched that, looks unpleasant

Deffo sticking an order in 🤤

@spinnnout - do you have any aji lemon seeds still up for grabs?
Have a few seeds for swapsies or happy to pay for postage/donate to forum :)

Sent you a pm a few hours ago, they are dried and ready to go :)

Nice, have just replied :)

Anyone recognise these? Given to me by my elderly Caribbean allotment neighbour. Teaspoon for scale.
Plant was short and bushy with tiny leaves. He’s been growing them from saved seed for 20+yrs and apparently they’re stupid hot.
They ripen to orange but he cooks with them at this stage usually.

Will be saving seed from them.

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If you know what flavour you like, just dial it with herbs, spices, different type of sugar etc.

Inspired by this have dialled it up.

More lemon drop, less pepper filler
A thumb of ginger
lemon zest
bonus Prairie Fire peppers gifted to me (they'll get a jam back)
tiny demon reds from a previous year.

Best yet!

Still keen to roast some of them and have enough to make a sauce..

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Ordering some of their spicey hot chocolate for a gift, it seemed rude not to add a few additions for myself..

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@spinnnout sent a truly generous amount of the lfgss lemon drop seeds.
Predicting big things for this thread next season.

That looks great!

Started a few seeds in august when we built our potting shed on the allotment. Bought them home today to overwinter.
Obviously it was completely pointless starting them so early but will be interesting to see how they get on next year. Nothing exciting, just cayenne and a long thin sweet pepper.

I’ve also got some hot wax, mixed superhot and jalapeño germinating at the moment. Only need one of each for some indoor bonsai experiments so if anyone in easts wants a seedling in a couple of weeks let me know.

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How important is overwintering at home and not in the greenhouse

Well I’ve been told you need a min of 10°c for overwintering younger plants so this seemed the best option to me.
Despite insulation my potting shed was 12°c early this morning so wouldn’t be surprised if it ended up around freezing in there eventually.
No real safe/efficient way to heat my shed as it’s unsupervised most of the time(allotment).
I think more established plants can go below 10°c. Depends how warm the greenhouse is I guess.
I’m no expert as this will be my first time overwintering ;)

Same. I’ve got a Carolina Reaper I’d like to try and keep going

Pepper X article https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/nov/07/the-shocking-stupendous-rise-of-superhot-chillies-the-stomach-cramps-can-last-for-14-hours

What should I do with this basket of fire chili plant? It's currently in the bag it came in, in a side alley which doesn't get much sun any more.

Should I be bringing it inside?

It's designed to go in a hanging basket, and as you can see its in this rectangular wall mounted thing and it'd be cool if it filled the pot - can you make your own pot out of compost bags?

Any other tips welcome.

Cheers.

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Should I be bringing it inside?

yes, to help the chilies to ripen (they need mostly warmth to ripen, not sunlight)

beyond that I wouldn't get my hopes up with this plant, sorry to say but it looks very beat up and probably won't recover no matter where you plant it next

Ah. That's a shame ;(

My wife and youngest bought it as a present to replace my jalapeño. I've just been too side tracked with house stuff to think about the garden.

I've potted it up and brought it inside and placed it in the lightest place I have. Got to say I fucking hate how few sunny spots we have this time of year. It's like a fucking exodus to the back of the house.

Ah. That's a shame ;(

..some reggae to cheer you up maybe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iiI9FW8P4A

Jokes aside though, maybe you can overwinter it successfully, and it will thrive again next year 👍
My suggestion would be to take care not to overwater it - looks like it has only few leaves left, so there won't be much evaporation.. just a little sip every week or so depending on how warm your house is.

Good luck ✌️

A friend of mine has managed to keep a basket of fire chilli plant going for two years and it kept producing fruit all through the winter inside. It may pick up!

If people have well established mature plants they can be brought in and kept at 10c as other people have said. Also, pruned right back and then when the spring starts they will start to sprout again. It’s also possible to trim the routes in spring and plant in fresh compost but they do take a while to rejuvenate.

I found it worked well trying to keep the whole plant alive on a sunny window sill if that’s an option

Germinated a couple of @spinnnout lfgss lemon seeds to give as Xmas pressies/just to see how they do on a very early start.

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