Chilli inferno

**pipkins** · 01-07-2011, 05:58 AM

I have found this

How To Ripen Chillies | The Chilli King

Think I will give it a go

**Florence Fennel** · 01-07-2011, 06:31 AM

Ooh I think I'm dead clever now! I sewed green chillis together last year for my daughter (we don't eat them, it's just something else I grow for other people) and she had them hanging in her kitchen. They ripened beautifully.

**Two_Sheds** · 01-07-2011, 07:07 AM

OK, I'm going to pick one chilli to bring in the house, and leave the rest on the plant - watch this space

**dave_norm_smith** · 01-07-2011, 09:13 AM

Pah! At least you have one to pick, mine have barely started to flower! sob sob

**Florence Fennel** · 01-07-2011, 09:17 AM

Mine are really slow too Dave, I've only got one so far.

**dave_norm_smith** · 01-07-2011, 09:54 AM

I guess its just the norm for me. Always seem to come good by the end but my harvests always seem to be weeks behind everyone else? I suppose I could plant earlier but with a unheated greenhouse it just means the dining room looking like Kew gardens for longer!

**jonohanson** · 01-07-2011, 09:57 AM

Originally posted by dave_norm_smith View Post

I guess its just the norm for me. Always seem to come good by the end but my harvests always seem to be weeks behind everyone else? I suppose I could plant earlier but with a unheated greenhouse it just means the dining room looking like Kew gardens for longer!

Bizzarley I have sweet peppers ready but my chilli's are only just flowering!!

**jacob** · 01-07-2011, 01:43 PM

Dead interested in TS's experiment. My experience is that picked chilis don't ripen much. And it is my belief that you won't get any heat developing once picked.

I'd leave them on the plant as long as possible. For preserving, if you're not overwintering, then hang the whole plant upside off a hook somewhere dry and leave.

**zazen999** · 01-07-2011, 02:54 PM

Originally posted by dave_norm_smith View Post

I guess its just the norm for me. Always seem to come good by the end but my harvests always seem to be weeks behind everyone else? I suppose I could plant earlier but with a unheated greenhouse it just means the dining room looking like Kew gardens for longer!

Your harvests are weeks behind those that mouth off about it! Different conditions give different results.

**Incy** · 01-07-2011, 03:31 PM

I have ripe chillies but only because they are on last years plants. Don't worry Dave they'll come along in due course and if the plants stay healthy you can always overwinter a few in the house so that you have some earlier ones next year.

**Two_Sheds** · 01-07-2011, 04:45 PM

Originally posted by jacob View Post

Dead interested in TS's experiment. My experience is that picked chilis don't ripen much.

Mine too, and it hasn't yet

**Rabidbun** · 01-07-2011, 07:25 PM

Same for me - once picked I haven't found chillies to gain heat particularly, just a colour change (eventually). Just basing that on ones that I have broken off accidentally though over the last few years.

My chillies are still to flower (the new ones, overwintered one is still trying to ripen its first crop after I nearly killed it by missing the thrips on the leaves

). This is the first year I've had tomatoes full size and ready to ripen before any new chillies though. A bear of a growing year here!

**binley100** · 01-07-2011, 08:22 PM

Hmmmm....I think I'll leave them on the plant , there's plenty more starting to set so it's not like they're stopping chilli production.

**Two_Sheds** · 17-07-2011, 03:53 PM

16 days indoors, and it's turning red

and only slightly shrivelled & wrinkly (this isn't Inferno, it's a bog-standard 'long' chilli)

The ones still on the plant in the gh are not

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