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I bought some Bih Jolokia seeds along with loads of others from pepperlover.com (excellent service by the way!).   I selected three seedlings and grew them into proper plants. Two of them produced red fruit as expected, the third produced brown / chocolate coloured fruit. They looked exactly the...

My first attempt at making a sauce from a harvest was great. I used a whole selection of chillies varying up to Habanero strength, blended it with onions, rice vinegar, roasted garlic and raw garlic. I put it on my cheese and ham sandwiches and used it like a chutney.   I then decided to grow...

I planted some white habanero seeds and although some came up only one survived. It then grew into this small stunted, twisted chilli plant, twisted I think because of a problem with aphids. It was about 30 cm tall and I had two small fruit growing on it. This was early spring this year so I...

I had about 10 seeds and only 1 came up. It flowered profusely and gave me lots of fruit which I was really happy about, although I was kind of puzzled about the colour. It looked more peach than Lemon to me although the ones pictured are a little paler than others. It's a very pretty colour but...

I really wasn't expecting this. I've been planting many different varieties this year and before going to the checkout with my order I added some paper lantern seeds on impulse. They all came up really fast, grew really tall and I picked the three biggest. I planted the seeds on new years day.I...

All the flowers on my Chocolate Habaneros kept falling off this year and I ended up with two fruit in total. I was about to give up on them but when I used one of the Habaneros in a dinner I decided that they were extremely tasty and decided to bring the plants indoors rather than let them...

Hi, I've been growing food for several years now and three years ago I started growing chilis. I was living in the highlands of Scotland at the time and had a bumper crop of cayenne peppers that filled the entire greenhouse. Actually some of them were much hotter than your normal cayenne...