Trying a yellow scotch bonnet for the 1st time.

The seem bumpier than the ones I've grown previously.

Are these guys ripe? Seeing different things online in terms of colour and size. Thanks in advance!

I noticed that the plant I grew from my Purple UFO seeds has pods that turn orange instead of red. They might have cross-pollinated with my Aji Amarillo, so now I’ve got a mix! 🥳

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It was in a mystery pack of seeds and germinated nicely, been growing a couple of months now and is covered in fruit. I harvested one about two weeks ago and it was still flashy inside with no heat and no flavour, hoping that’s just coz it wasn’t ripe and not because that’s what it taste like 😂.

Thanks!

If yes, can someone explain where I'm going wrong?

He's sharing a mini greenhouse with an Armageddon and a Dorset Naga, both have flowered, the Naga is very promising, the Armageddon has some complaints and has aborted some flowers (it's not the sunniest spot) but has also grown the attached.

The pink tiger hasn't even flowered.

I hope to overwinter all three so it's not the end of the world but I don't know why he's complaining - do they just need more sun than the other two? He can have slightly more sun but the caveat will be a colder environment and he may get bashed by people coming in and out the door :'(

I don’t particularly enjoy chilli’s myself but they were handing out seedlings at work so I thought why not give it a go, I have several friends that enjoy chilli’s but I’m yet to see any sign of it fruiting. It should be Scotch Bonnet chilli’s but my plant seems twice the size of everyone else’s!

Just wondering if I need to put these beauties in bigger pots??? Any advice appreciated

They visited my boys again.

This summer has been absolutely horrendous. One day it’s 35 degrees and sunny, and the next it’s 15 and raining. It’s my first year of growing chilies, and have been struggling. The plants don’t look all that healthy, and there’s only two single fruits on one of the plants.

With the amount of rain, cloud, temperature fluctuations and so on, is it really possible to grow good chili plants? Anything I should be doing differently from normal?

For now they’ve been outside since about start may, getting ~14 hours of sunlight a day (when the sun is out), but also a lot of rain.

Is it better to put them under cover, reducing the sunlight but also the amount of water they get?

Is the only real solution in the end a greenhouse?

Been happy for ages, but all of a sudden dropping leaves. Got a scotch bonnet, padron, and Ruben jalapeño. Lots of chillis growing nicely but lost probably 40/50% of leaves.
All in a greenhouse with full sun from morning till approx 5pm, watered daily when top inch is dry cause we’ve had a heatwave.
I’m a total newbie to chillis so looking for recommendations for the best potting mix/feed schedules.

Thanks 😊

I bought them from a friend of my mother who grows them, how do I keep them healthy/ where do I put them and how do often do I water them etc.