Your chili production is so much better this year! Thanks for the update! I don't have any sugar rush stripey's growing this year but I have sugar rush peach and they are my most productive plants along with my cayenne's. I have actually combined the two (SRP and Cayenne) in a couple of fermentation experiments and am eager to try them out in a month or so. Stay spicy, Shaun!
Wow! Amazing both the development of the plants as well as the variety and quality of the harvest. Long tails, super long snake chilis, beautiful leaves and stripes. And those Beaver Dam chilis, what a size! For a hot type, this is incredible.
I missed the sowing window this year then settled on taking a hiatus due to an unbelievable workload and haven't kept up to date with the channel or cc community so it's really satisfying to come back and see the progress you've made in the last year. well done! hopefully I'll be back and fighting fit for 2023 👌😊
Just love how excited you are about your chillies, saying that you have got the most amazing plants and harvest, I think I would get excited as well. Looking forward to seeing the sauce videos that are coming out soon.
Really inspiring to see how you grow and produce such amazing chilli's. It's my first year growing and learning much from the process and your content. Keep up the great work!
Last year I grew 3 super hot plants using your soil mix and had a good season. This year I decided to grow 50 plants, they are all outside scattered throughout the front and backyard in grow bags, 7 different pepper varieties. It's a lot of work but I'm having fun. I have used a good amount of info from your channel to apply to both growing chili peppers and making fermented sauces. Thank you for taking the time to make the videos you do, and congrats on all of your plants this year.
Wonderful short version chilli update Shaun! You have some amazing plants and very interesting pods. Soon I will be enjoying the long form version for those extra details. Stay Spicy! -Bob...
Johnny im a recovering drug everything addict sober now and out of trouble for 8 years now and love the encouragement for the love of peppers! I have a huge garden about 16 acres mostly hayfield about and acre for plants got my seeds coming maybe some encouragement brother love yall God bless brother
Hi Jamie, well done on keeping clean ..I know that can't be easy! 16 acres, that's a nice size, can do a lot with that much space. Have a great growing season. By the way, I am Shaun....not Johnny.
Always a pleasure to watch and take inspiration. Just starting to plant my seed for the upcoming season (I'm in New Zealand). Don't have as many verities to choose from, but still great fun. This Year I'm taking over the Vegi-pod to grow a crop in, will be interesting to see how they get on.
Awesome looking plants, wish all mine looked that good. Intermittent problems with my auto watering setup has caused me some issues but overall I am happy with things. My best plant is a 7 pot yellow hab, it's covered in gnarly pods and my reaper plants are doing great, only one pod so far but it's as precious as a new born baby. Looking forward to some sauce videos and some new seeds appearing in your store.
Good job. I love Trinidad Perfumes. They are really aromatic and taste great. Was wondering why you took such a big chunk in case in turned out to be hot (I read one in a thousand will be hot), but seeing all the super hot sauces you've been making, I need not worry. Great job once again. I'll get some seeds from you soon.
As a Wisconsinite it's so cool to see him growing beaver dam peppers, Wisconsin representing. The beaver dam pepper was brought over to Wisconsin by a hungarian man in 1912 and grown in beaver dam "hence the name" and the locals loved them and the rest is history
Grow some African Marigolds. They attract hoverflies, which will absolutely annihilate the whitefly, aphids and other pests. It's why I have them dotted around my greenhouses and outdoors.
I’m really behind like a month’s worth of time so i’m hoping for a milder autumn to get enough time for my chillies to ripen. Great looking plants mate
This is only the second video of yours I've seen. I didn't realize that you had a greenhouse. That's how you have peppers I reckon. Totally jealous. That's a pretty nice setup
Seeing those peperdew plants i think its time to show us how to make pickled pepedew 🤘 my jalapeño plants have been fruiting for a long time even now in the cold weather its stil just going al the way always have some fresh ones
2 years ago I had the best plant. Trinidad Butch T Scorpion. The amount of heat was astronomical. Use a glove & sharp knife use 1/2 of 1, in your Mexican beef with diced onions & chorizo, very spicy & beautiful.
Actually your chillies are thriving in your unusual weather...make sure you keep some prime seeds this season...you might not have one like it in a while. Awesome Plants.
Thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge I've been watching your catalog. My garden is doing great and the hot sauces are fermenting. Have a good one!
Thank you for your video, your peppers are just breathtaking❣ I have a passion for hot chillies too but this year, I am sooo frustrated. I moved here 3 years ago and the time to repair/renovate/whatever else my new abode, I didn't have gardens these last 2 years but this year, I made raised beds and put a greenhouse (not like yours that I drool for but, it is a greenhouse nevertheless😊). Maybe you could guide me to what could have happened. I ordered new high quality soil (which have compost and all the goodies in it) to put in my raised beds and pots ($$$$$$$$$$ for my small pension😱) then transplanted my seedlings (started my seedlings around the 20th of February) and... nothing grows really. I have, in my greenhouse, about 80 chillies plants, many of them are still the same size as when I planted them in May , meaning 2-4cm and my tallest one (including cayenne) are 22-24cm on a tiny stem. Even my Espelette are still very small, towering a huge 9cm, and I have absolutely no fruits on them, not even one to save the seeds. I put nothing on the dirt as I was told it was a rich soil that would not need fertilizer for a year or two... true? Hmmmm! Would like to know if they could be"saved" and hibernized for next spring? Or is is better to start fresh? Do you have a video on how to hibernize a chilli plant for the next year? I heard it is faisable but... how? Even my cukes are still 5-6cm tall and no fruits even though they were planted in the soil in May also. My squashes (zucchinis, scalopinni pâtissons) as well as my watermelons are still very very small and the fruits grows anyway a little bit (happiness) then become yellow and fell (desssssparation & tears). When you count on your garden for a part of your winter stash, it is extremely frustrating and discouraging. I need some advice for the next season to rectify the situation... please... would you know (or one of your subscribers) what it could be? Thank you and I LOVE your videos 🌹
@@ChilliChump Pretty crazy... the nights were cold up to mid-July, sometime going down to 5°C 😳 as for the days, we had rain as the climate on Vancouver Island is similar to England but we also had sun and again, it was not very hot with an average max of 12-14°C. I know that it surely affected-delayed the growth of the plants but now, since mid-July it is very hot and some of my tomatoes finally starting to grow and give flowers in mid-August, my lettuce just starting to look like a lettuce, the rest like cukes are still very tiny, my green onions planted in May and June are just few tiny-tiny-tiny spears of a green something, so little that you really need to pay attention to see them and radishes are making flowers but without a radish in the dirt. My chillies are in the greenhouse and they are so little and tiny that yours made me cry of envy 😊 OK, on a serious side, it was always very warm in my greenhouse so the chillies should have been growing... maybe not like your beauties but nevertheless, beyond the seedling size they are now. I would send you a photo you would not believe it. Oh! And some of them (mostly the sweet chillies) start to die from the top down, just becoming brown and like... petrified. They have their water and I check the soil everyday to see if they need water that day as it seems that this soil keep the moisture. I know, as my neighbours & farmers at the farmer market, had problems too because of the ugly spring we had, that I am not the only one around here to have problems but now their gardens just bursted with greens and veggies... but mine... besides some of my tomatoes (not all of them), it is far from to be exciting 😔 So I wonder why!
You can send some photos through my website if you get in touch. chillichump.com/contact Chillies like to have warm roots...and also don't like a lot of water! The roots need to dry in-between watering. My soil recipe that I have shared on my channel is ideal...allows the soil to drain well between watering. Send over the photos, I will have a look!
With the volume of peppers you produce, you must have some cool machinery to help with production. Do you have an industrial crusher for making flakes? Maybe a large capacity dehydrator? I just have a garden of 60 plants, but making powder is getting to be too much for a standard coffee grinder. Any suggestions.
Hello and Happy New Year Mr. CC. I've a question for you. I have two orange Habenero plants in my greenhouse that just blew up this season, got about eight feet tall. Was worriedvthe fruit would not be that good, trimmed early on and was very surprised with the outcome. But I'm not sure how far to take it down. Still producing lower on the plant though. Just wondering if you havecany suggestions. Thanks a ton Squire CC.
Regarding Trinidad Perfume, I like them in salads, what I find is that the sweetness and heat increases (from zero to noticeable) especially at the seasons end, also what I have noticed is the various strains I have harvested this year seem a tad Hotter than previous years, also production.
It hit 38-40C here in the southern US so much in the Spring that my chilis are very behind. They dropped flowers constantly and are just now starting to set fruit. Hopefully the first frost will be very late and I can get a few harvests before then.
Hello from Ireland 🇮🇪. Thank you for teaching me how to grow chillis. I have been following your channel about a year now .can you please tell me what plants you will overwinter
@@ChilliChump thank you for your kind reply. I really appreciate the way you help the chilli growing community and pass on your knowledge and what works and what doesn't .
I have 2 Trinidad perfume plants grown from seed there is little green pods but I don't think they will be ripe by the end of the growing season here in Ireland .can you tell me how they taste as I have never tasted them. Any tips greatly appreciated 🙏
@@markirish7599 They are very fruity. Mine are looking good and should be ready to harvest in about 2 weeks. There is a hint of heat when you first bite it raw and then a nice lime-lemon fruity taste. I live in the high desert of Idaho, USA so ripening isn't a problem. I'm planning on growing more next year so I can possibly share.
How are you getting them all to pollinate? Ive got a chocolate bhutla that has hunders of flowers but only a handful of peppers. Ive brought in some plants to help attract bees, but do you have any other tips?
I love what you do, I share a passion for chilli's. In fact an out right addiction to super hot spicy food. And love gardening. We have our own space again to garden, but just a small plastic greenhouse. I have grown chilli's in the past, not properly though, and am going to give it a good go this year. I have found every bit of your content useful and interesting, and am very excited about doing what I can to grow a few different plants, while being mindful to not do too many that I can't house them properly! In your opinion are there any hot chillis that would easy to grow in our climate (bearing in mind I couldn't house fully grown plants in the greenhouse I have). One day I dream to have the space and setup to do it like you
When do you pick chillies? I usually pick them as soon as they are completely red, but often they are still chewy, and taste similar to when they’re green. Should I wait longer until I pick them?
Hey señor ChilliChump, I have been following your videos and got into the chilli-growing hype. Started with some medium heat and a couple of super hots. What size are your pots? I´d like to have a compromise between plant size and harvest (they´ll remain potted). I don´t want my plants to grow XL. Greetings from sunny Spain.🌞
Not sure what you do that you already have so many ripe chillies :) My Hainan Yellow Lanters are few weeks or maybe more that a month till they start to ripen. Other peppers look similar, only Piri Piri ripening normally. Maybe, contrary to your situation, very cold July has caused this delay.
That's some truly amazing stripes on that SRPS :o Mine just have thin streaks of red.. What's the update on the Queen of Malinalco tomatillo - tried it yet?
Thanks for the watch, the plants look super healthy. Just wondering if you got a recommended use for your 5 color Chinese. My pods have good heat, but not any real taste. How do you use yours?
ive finally started planting some pepper plants... i live in an area called hells canyon.. as the name suggests, it hit 114f as an high last year.. most articles/posts/videos i watch suggests an 95 ish temp for the super hots.. is the 100 plus temps an problem? if so, i was thinnking that planting them in large containers(10 plus gallon) would be the ticket so they could be moved to shade them.. if necessary.. or id have to construct an shade fabric sortta thing.. i really enjoy your videos.. there are 3 solid months of high temps here.. nothing below 90f.
Some varieties will do better in conditions like that than others. But the good news is as long as you are able to develop a strong root system early on, and water well once they are mature...you should get some great results. Just need to optimise the strategy to accommodate the climate. And shading in the early days is definitely recommended. Once the plants are more mature and have a healthy root system...then they should be able to deal with full sunshine.
With the unusual hot weather the UK has had this year, what effect do you expect to yeald weight and scoville amount from your chillies due to this hot temp compared to last year with 'normal temps'? Keep up the great content.
Great results so far, good to see your efforts are literally bearing fruit! Check your seed collection for Blue Christmas by Fataali, it's very similar to the Chinese 5 colour with purple tinged leaves, purple flowers, and a huge amount of orange to purple kinda hot fruits. It's the one people always say "OOH what's that?" when they're looking around my place. It branches a lot so it could be a good candidate for a nice lil bonchi too.
First year grower here. What's a bonchi? If it's a smaller (bonchi/bonzai?), bushier plant as I'm guessing then this is something I'd love to know more about. I have around 10 plants in my conservatory at the moment and they are over running the place. They are mostly really tall and slender. I could really do with have things along more compact. I have seen plants on sale at chilli festivals which kind of looked like a bonzai chilli plant. Any advice you can give?
Thanks for the video - those stripey chillies look interesting! Had a question about an idea for a future video - just wondering if it'd be possible to show a method how you could guesstimate the scoville number of sauces/chillies made or grown at home. Obviously the only real way to tell this would be to buy an expensive bit of testing equipment, but it'd be interesting to see if there's a quick method for a rough test at home for the average person?
Actually the original scoville test wasn't done with fancy equipment. Scoville is the measure of dilution of chillies (extract using alcohol) in sugar water until you can no longer detect the pungency. So 10,000 scoville would mean 1 part chilli in 10,000 parts sugar water.
Really don't feel there's been a heatwave at all, we've only had a handful of hot days here this year compared to normal! Wasn't until the regular August 'heatwave' this year, that my chillies took off too.
Hi ChilliChump! Commenting here to ask if possible could you add some seeds from your gem squash to the seed store this year? I hope it isn't too late in the season to ask, but I would LOVE to try those. Thank you!
I'm curious, your pepper plants reside in your greenhouse year round? How hot does it get in there in mid-summer? I'm being told there's no way my pepper plants will survive a typical summer here (Washington State, zone 8b) and that they will all die from the heat.
I wish I could have a greenhouse as yours! They all look so amazing! just a quick question, how to do you pollinate your chilies in the greenhouse? I would guess not a lot of bees would come inside? Greetings from Germany!
I updated on them on the last update video. One has died because of a neighbor overwatering when we were away. The other has recovered and is doing well!
Have your scotch bonnet seeds gone up yet? 2 years in a row now i've been hit by what seems like a UK wide issue, where scotch bonnet seeds turn out to be bishops crown...even by using different suppliers! A lot of people seem to be hit by this, even some buying already grown plants from garden centres that turn out to be the same issue
I did an update on the last livestream! The biggest is taller than me now...Full on beast mode! Koos is definitely bigger and healthier. Will do a dedicated update soon enough
Can you go into why you're not into the taste of scotch bonnets. Those and habaneros are some of my favorite for flavor. I guess to each his own, but find myself curious with your great collection and experience.
Actually spoke about this on a recent monthly livestream. There are a couple West Indian style hot sauces i have had which I REALLY don't like...they were scotch bonnet based and the flavour really put me off scotch bonnets. I am working on a few SB recipes to change this....so we will see
@@ChilliChump Yes I know you're from Oofrika .. Yeah 40c in the UK would be like 'wahh its so hot why is it so hot' ... elsewhere its like 'fk its hot today' ;p
Need some help, I went away for a week and the weather got crazy over here so some of my plants got zapped and have since lost leaves. What is the best way to get them to recover, carry on as normal, or shift my fertilizer to more nitrogen heavy for a few weeks to encourage new leaves?
Definitely don't add fertiliser. If you really want to, you can add some very diluted seaweed feed. But otherwise, give them a proper watering and continue as usual. If you are expecting more strong sunshine, then you could shade them for part of the day.
40.3 degrees Celsius is an average day in china this past summer was as hot as always with temperatures reaching 47 to 49 degrees Celsius on average for the last 3 to 4 weeks
Will you be selling seeds of the Red Primotalii by any chance please?? Been trying to source those seeds forever. Hope all is well. Loving the videos and progress
@@ChilliChump Thank you! Also, do you send orders to South Africa? I hope you sell some Scotch bonnet seeds. I find the habanero a little bitter at the end sometimes... Would love to try a new pepper😀😀
Yes, I ship globally. There can be some challenges receiving them because of certain restrictions...but the way I send them, there is a high success rate
@@ChilliChump Must try that myself. Have had mixed results here in Dublin , raised beds in a polytunnel. Too much water and not enough sun I think. Some chillies with no heat and then Jalapenos that would be insanely hot. Great channel, thanks for all the great info
Hey chillichump 😉🤙🏻, love watching your vids. You learned me such more about growing chilli’s 😊👍🏻. This year is my first year of growing them and I’m loving it, but I’m also struggling with bugs on the leaves, and the blossoms getting first drying out and then they falling out. Do you have some tips? And I would love to by your sugar rush stripey 😊👍🏻.
Thank you ! For your flower drop problem, have a look at this video of mine ruclips.net/video/Mq_R5lDGEUs/видео.html And for bugs: ruclips.net/video/q86hMKa7nBI/видео.html
I discovered the Dorset Naga a few years back . Who on earth would have thought that a chile from England would (for a while at least) be recognized as the world's hottest! One of my hobbies is growing hot chiles. Two years ago I had a garden with ALL of the "record holders" from the last 30 or so years. I called it my garden of mass destruction!
Are they hardy, i.e. would they survive a mild case of winter in the South-east? Only because if they are so big, there won’t be space inside to overwinter them. Just checking if this is a suitable plant for me. It’s definitely fascinating
I have lost all of my plants all year. All of my plants would not get out of the first leave stage and go into the true leave stage. Any thoughts of why?
Your chili production is so much better this year! Thanks for the update! I don't have any sugar rush stripey's growing this year but I have sugar rush peach and they are my most productive plants along with my cayenne's. I have actually combined the two (SRP and Cayenne) in a couple of fermentation experiments and am eager to try them out in a month or so. Stay spicy, Shaun!
Hello chillichump your pepper trees are exceptionally beautiful. Reminded me off my youth in the island of Trinidad.
Wow! Amazing both the development of the plants as well as the variety and quality of the harvest. Long tails, super long snake chilis, beautiful leaves and stripes. And those Beaver Dam chilis, what a size! For a hot type, this is incredible.
I missed the sowing window this year then settled on taking a hiatus due to an unbelievable workload and haven't kept up to date with the channel or cc community so it's really satisfying to come back and see the progress you've made in the last year. well done! hopefully I'll be back and fighting fit for 2023 👌😊
I have also the sugar rush stripey for the first time! I love it! Each one is a surprise! Thank you and greetings from Germany
What do they taste like? 👍
Just love how excited you are about your chillies, saying that you have got the most amazing plants and harvest, I think I would get excited as well. Looking forward to seeing the sauce videos that are coming out soon.
Really inspiring to see how you grow and produce such amazing chilli's. It's my first year growing and learning much from the process and your content.
Keep up the great work!
This channel also inspired me a few years ago. Happy growing my friend
my prayer goes for you man...wish you all the best...you are the best
I love the new digs, very happy to see what you have going on.
This garden update was so entertaining to watch! I can't wait to see the sauce videos you make from some of these delicious peppers.
I grew Trinidad Perfume last year… No heat but really beautiful flavour, I loved cooking with them!
That's an astounding variety of peppers - so many gorgeous plants.
Thanks Mitch.
This video brought be back to my nan, as she she used to grow chilli’s and do all sorts of magic with them. Great video.
Last year I grew 3 super hot plants using your soil mix and had a good season. This year I decided to grow 50 plants, they are all outside scattered throughout the front and backyard in grow bags, 7 different pepper varieties. It's a lot of work but I'm having fun. I have used a good amount of info from your channel to apply to both growing chili peppers and making fermented sauces. Thank you for taking the time to make the videos you do, and congrats on all of your plants this year.
Hippy seed company is the bomb! Awesome seed suppliers in NSW!
Definitely some of the best stripeys I’ve seen yet👍👍
Nice chili plants. Enjoyed watching your videos of chilies.
Lekker boet. Love your enthusiasm. Every chilli tree is the best!
Great film.
Thank you pal.
Wonderful short version chilli update Shaun! You have some amazing plants and very interesting pods. Soon I will be enjoying the long form version for those extra details. Stay Spicy! -Bob...
Johnny im a recovering drug everything addict sober now and out of trouble for 8 years now and love the encouragement for the love of peppers! I have a huge garden about 16 acres mostly hayfield about and acre for plants got my seeds coming maybe some encouragement brother love yall God bless brother
Hi Jamie, well done on keeping clean ..I know that can't be easy! 16 acres, that's a nice size, can do a lot with that much space. Have a great growing season. By the way, I am Shaun....not Johnny.
@@ChilliChump I’m sorry for messing up your name I know your name brother my bad love ya man! Stay spicy!
I would like to send you pictures of my garden maybe you can give some advice although it is very cold right now trying to do a raise bed
@@jamiejohnson8633 sure! You can get in touch here Https://chillichump.com/contact
Always a pleasure to watch and take inspiration. Just starting to plant my seed for the upcoming season (I'm in New Zealand). Don't have as many verities to choose from, but still great fun. This Year I'm taking over the Vegi-pod to grow a crop in, will be interesting to see how they get on.
Good luck with your season Andy!
3:10 I am from Malawi great to see these. Great chillies.
Nice! King Chump! Inspiering! Hope you get some cloudes and rain again! 😅👍
Awesome looking plants, wish all mine looked that good. Intermittent problems with my auto watering setup has caused me some issues but overall I am happy with things. My best plant is a 7 pot yellow hab, it's covered in gnarly pods and my reaper plants are doing great, only one pod so far but it's as precious as a new born baby. Looking forward to some sauce videos and some new seeds appearing in your store.
Wow wow so beautiful work.
Good job. I love Trinidad Perfumes. They are really aromatic and taste great. Was wondering why you took such a big chunk in case in turned out to be hot (I read one in a thousand will be hot), but seeing all the super hot sauces you've been making, I need not worry. Great job once again. I'll get some seeds from you soon.
As a Wisconsinite it's so cool to see him growing beaver dam peppers, Wisconsin representing. The beaver dam pepper was brought over to Wisconsin by a hungarian man in 1912 and grown in beaver dam "hence the name" and the locals loved them and the rest is history
They are really tasty!
Life goals looking at your peppers!
That looks amazing. I'm in south Florida and the whiteflies here are just relentless. No way I can have a pepper garden like that
Grow some African Marigolds. They attract hoverflies, which will absolutely annihilate the whitefly, aphids and other pests. It's why I have them dotted around my greenhouses and outdoors.
Thx for the reply. I didn't know about that and as far as I know, no remedy is good for those pests. Will try it.
I’m really behind like a month’s worth of time so i’m hoping for a milder autumn to get enough time for my chillies to ripen. Great looking plants mate
A little better than last year. 🤣 nice plants!
This is only the second video of yours I've seen. I didn't realize that you had a greenhouse. That's how you have peppers I reckon. Totally jealous. That's a pretty nice setup
Seeing those peperdew plants i think its time to show us how to make pickled pepedew 🤘 my jalapeño plants have been fruiting for a long time even now in the cold weather its stil just going al the way always have some fresh ones
Oh im from SA my friend
2 years ago I had the best plant.
Trinidad Butch T Scorpion. The amount of heat was astronomical. Use a glove & sharp knife use 1/2 of 1, in your Mexican beef with diced onions & chorizo, very spicy & beautiful.
Chillies and Toms have gone mental this year.
Actually your chillies are thriving in your unusual weather...make sure you keep some prime seeds this season...you might not have one like it in a while. Awesome Plants.
You’d love growing chilli’s in Australia man! 40+ for months plants are loving it!
Oh those are beautiful
Thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge I've been watching your catalog. My garden is doing great and the hot sauces are fermenting. Have a good one!
My pleasure, and thank you for watching Richard!
Thank you for your video, your peppers are just breathtaking❣ I have a passion for hot chillies too but this year, I am sooo frustrated. I moved here 3 years ago and the time to repair/renovate/whatever else my new abode, I didn't have gardens these last 2 years but this year, I made raised beds and put a greenhouse (not like yours that I drool for but, it is a greenhouse nevertheless😊). Maybe you could guide me to what could have happened.
I ordered new high quality soil (which have compost and all the goodies in it) to put in my raised beds and pots ($$$$$$$$$$ for my small pension😱) then transplanted my seedlings (started my seedlings around the 20th of February) and... nothing grows really. I have, in my greenhouse, about 80 chillies plants, many of them are still the same size as when I planted them in May , meaning 2-4cm and my tallest one (including cayenne) are 22-24cm on a tiny stem. Even my Espelette are still very small, towering a huge 9cm, and I have absolutely no fruits on them, not even one to save the seeds. I put nothing on the dirt as I was told it was a rich soil that would not need fertilizer for a year or two... true? Hmmmm!
Would like to know if they could be"saved" and hibernized for next spring? Or is is better to start fresh? Do you have a video on how to hibernize a chilli plant for the next year? I heard it is faisable but... how?
Even my cukes are still 5-6cm tall and no fruits even though they were planted in the soil in May also. My squashes (zucchinis, scalopinni pâtissons) as well as my watermelons are still very very small and the fruits grows anyway a little bit (happiness) then become yellow and fell (desssssparation & tears). When you count on your garden for a part of your winter stash, it is extremely frustrating and discouraging. I need some advice for the next season to rectify the situation... please... would you know (or one of your subscribers) what it could be?
Thank you and I LOVE your videos 🌹
Hello Amyah. Sorry to hear your season hasn't been going well. What have your temperatures been like?
@@ChilliChump Pretty crazy... the nights were cold up to mid-July, sometime going down to 5°C 😳 as for the days, we had rain as the climate on Vancouver Island is similar to England but we also had sun and again, it was not very hot with an average max of 12-14°C. I know that it surely affected-delayed the growth of the plants but now, since mid-July it is very hot and some of my tomatoes finally starting to grow and give flowers in mid-August, my lettuce just starting to look like a lettuce, the rest like cukes are still very tiny, my green onions planted in May and June are just few tiny-tiny-tiny spears of a green something, so little that you really need to pay attention to see them and radishes are making flowers but without a radish in the dirt. My chillies are in the greenhouse and they are so little and tiny that yours made me cry of envy 😊 OK, on a serious side, it was always very warm in my greenhouse so the chillies should have been growing... maybe not like your beauties but nevertheless, beyond the seedling size they are now. I would send you a photo you would not believe it. Oh! And some of them (mostly the sweet chillies) start to die from the top down, just becoming brown and like... petrified. They have their water and I check the soil everyday to see if they need water that day as it seems that this soil keep the moisture.
I know, as my neighbours & farmers at the farmer market, had problems too because of the ugly spring we had, that I am not the only one around here to have problems but now their gardens just bursted with greens and veggies... but mine... besides some of my tomatoes (not all of them), it is far from to be exciting 😔 So I wonder why!
You can send some photos through my website if you get in touch. chillichump.com/contact
Chillies like to have warm roots...and also don't like a lot of water! The roots need to dry in-between watering. My soil recipe that I have shared on my channel is ideal...allows the soil to drain well between watering.
Send over the photos, I will have a look!
Wow!! Amazing. Jealous. Howdy from Texas.
With the volume of peppers you produce, you must have some cool machinery to help with production. Do you have an industrial crusher for making flakes? Maybe a large capacity dehydrator? I just have a garden of 60 plants, but making powder is getting to be too much for a standard coffee grinder. Any suggestions.
Good evening, happiness and health to you, my friend
Hello and Happy New Year Mr. CC. I've a question for you. I have two orange Habenero plants in my greenhouse that just blew up this season, got about eight feet tall. Was worriedvthe fruit would not be that good, trimmed early on and was very surprised with the outcome. But I'm not sure how far to take it down. Still producing lower on the plant though. Just wondering if you havecany suggestions. Thanks a ton Squire CC.
Regarding Trinidad Perfume, I like them in salads, what I find is that the sweetness and heat increases (from zero to noticeable) especially at the seasons end, also what I have noticed is the various strains I have harvested this year seem a tad Hotter than previous years, also production.
It hit 38-40C here in the southern US so much in the Spring that my chilis are very behind. They dropped flowers constantly and are just now starting to set fruit. Hopefully the first frost will be very late and I can get a few harvests before then.
Hello from Ireland 🇮🇪. Thank you for teaching me how to grow chillis. I have been following your channel about a year now .can you please tell me what plants you will overwinter
Hi Mark. I have a couple ideas for overwintering a couple of my plants. Will discuss my thinking on the next livestream (next Sunday)
@@ChilliChump thank you for your kind reply. I really appreciate the way you help the chilli growing community and pass on your knowledge and what works and what doesn't .
Ever tried the habanada? Those also have zero heat, all the aroma but are also sweet
Haven't tried that one yet!
The Trinidad Perfume is my favorite pepper! I've got a nice crop growing. Just found your channel. I'm looking forward to learning even more.
I have 2 Trinidad perfume plants grown from seed there is little green pods but I don't think they will be ripe by the end of the growing season here in Ireland .can you tell me how they taste as I have never tasted them. Any tips greatly appreciated 🙏
@@markirish7599 They are very fruity. Mine are looking good and should be ready to harvest in about 2 weeks. There is a hint of heat when you first bite it raw and then a nice lime-lemon fruity taste. I live in the high desert of Idaho, USA so ripening isn't a problem. I'm planning on growing more next year so I can possibly share.
Great looking plants!
Thanks Erik!
How are you getting them all to pollinate? Ive got a chocolate bhutla that has hunders of flowers but only a handful of peppers. Ive brought in some plants to help attract bees, but do you have any other tips?
I love what you do, I share a passion for chilli's. In fact an out right addiction to super hot spicy food. And love gardening. We have our own space again to garden, but just a small plastic greenhouse. I have grown chilli's in the past, not properly though, and am going to give it a good go this year. I have found every bit of your content useful and interesting, and am very excited about doing what I can to grow a few different plants, while being mindful to not do too many that I can't house them properly! In your opinion are there any hot chillis that would easy to grow in our climate (bearing in mind I couldn't house fully grown plants in the greenhouse I have). One day I dream to have the space and setup to do it like you
Looks like heaven
It's my little slice of heaven!
When do you pick chillies? I usually pick them as soon as they are completely red, but often they are still chewy, and taste similar to when they’re green. Should I wait longer until I pick them?
I wait for a while after they are at their final colour
Hey señor ChilliChump,
I have been following your videos and got into the chilli-growing hype.
Started with some medium heat and a couple of super hots.
What size are your pots?
I´d like to have a compromise between plant size and harvest (they´ll remain potted). I don´t want my plants to grow XL.
Greetings from sunny Spain.🌞
Not sure what you do that you already have so many ripe chillies :) My Hainan Yellow Lanters are few weeks or maybe more that a month till they start to ripen. Other peppers look similar, only Piri Piri ripening normally. Maybe, contrary to your situation, very cold July has caused this delay.
Flexing with his fancy plant scanning app.. Jkjk love the content you inspired me to start my own chili patch in Malta!
That's some truly amazing stripes on that SRPS :o Mine just have thin streaks of red.. What's the update on the Queen of Malinalco tomatillo - tried it yet?
Thanks for the watch, the plants look super healthy. Just wondering if you got a recommended use for your 5 color Chinese. My pods have good heat, but not any real taste. How do you use yours?
Personally I'm just using them for ornamentals.
ive finally started planting some pepper plants... i live in an area called hells canyon.. as the name suggests, it hit 114f as an high last year.. most articles/posts/videos i watch suggests an 95 ish temp for the super hots.. is the 100 plus temps an problem? if so, i was thinnking that planting them in large containers(10 plus gallon) would be the ticket so they could be moved to shade them.. if necessary.. or id have to construct an shade fabric sortta thing.. i really enjoy your videos.. there are 3 solid months of high temps here.. nothing below 90f.
and no rain
Some varieties will do better in conditions like that than others. But the good news is as long as you are able to develop a strong root system early on, and water well once they are mature...you should get some great results. Just need to optimise the strategy to accommodate the climate. And shading in the early days is definitely recommended. Once the plants are more mature and have a healthy root system...then they should be able to deal with full sunshine.
What is the heat level of the ring of fire compared to piri piri?
With the unusual hot weather the UK has had this year, what effect do you expect to yeald weight and scoville amount from your chillies due to this hot temp compared to last year with 'normal temps'? Keep up the great content.
Like a normal Bloemfontein summer. Hope it reminded you of South Africa
40 in South Africa feels very different to 40 in the UK! I would have enjoyed it more if we had rain in the last month!
@@ChilliChump eish. Like a karoo 40 then? That's bad. Like a hairdryer blowing in your face. Atleast you have a aircon (I hope)
Looks amazing! Very inspiring! Mine is getting there... Growing outside in New England. Super hots are starting to produce now.
That's great that you are getting pods from your superhots outside! Doing well!
Want a green house in the worst way. Hopefully this fall...
No rain in the UK for 6 weeks? Wow that’s mind boggling. Everything looks great by the way congratulations!
Yeah, it's been pretty rubbish. Driest July for the last 20 years.
Great results so far, good to see your efforts are literally bearing fruit! Check your seed collection for Blue Christmas by Fataali, it's very similar to the Chinese 5 colour with purple tinged leaves, purple flowers, and a huge amount of orange to purple kinda hot fruits. It's the one people always say "OOH what's that?" when they're looking around my place. It branches a lot so it could be a good candidate for a nice lil bonchi too.
First year grower here. What's a bonchi? If it's a smaller (bonchi/bonzai?), bushier plant as I'm guessing then this is something I'd love to know more about. I have around 10 plants in my conservatory at the moment and they are over running the place. They are mostly really tall and slender. I could really do with have things along more compact. I have seen plants on sale at chilli festivals which kind of looked like a bonzai chilli plant. Any advice you can give?
It's a bonsai chilli plant Stephen. Here's a video about how to make one
ruclips.net/video/7g7hunQiS2U/видео.html
@@ChilliChump That's awesome man, thanks. I will check it out right away. It's great to have advice from a UK grower btw!
Thanks for the video - those stripey chillies look interesting!
Had a question about an idea for a future video - just wondering if it'd be possible to show a method how you could guesstimate the scoville number of sauces/chillies made or grown at home. Obviously the only real way to tell this would be to buy an expensive bit of testing equipment, but it'd be interesting to see if there's a quick method for a rough test at home for the average person?
Actually the original scoville test wasn't done with fancy equipment. Scoville is the measure of dilution of chillies (extract using alcohol) in sugar water until you can no longer detect the pungency. So 10,000 scoville would mean 1 part chilli in 10,000 parts sugar water.
Looks good!
Really don't feel there's been a heatwave at all, we've only had a handful of hot days here this year compared to normal!
Wasn't until the regular August 'heatwave' this year, that my chillies took off too.
Hi ChilliChump! Commenting here to ask if possible could you add some seeds from your gem squash to the seed store this year? I hope it isn't too late in the season to ask, but I would LOVE to try those. Thank you!
Ian, get in touch with me through my website rather. And I am sure I can make a plan for you. Chillichump.com/contact
i am from sri lanka...good work
I'm curious, your pepper plants reside in your greenhouse year round? How hot does it get in there in mid-summer? I'm being told there's no way my pepper plants will survive a typical summer here (Washington State, zone 8b) and that they will all die from the heat.
I get peaks of 50'C /122'F. But I have ventilation, automatic vents, fans etc. They thrive in there
Thank you @@ChilliChump , I plan on a fan and will be opening vents, etc. Stagnant air seems bad anyways.
Those beavers look like they would be better for stuffing than jalapeno? May have to invest in some
I wish I could have a greenhouse as yours! They all look so amazing!
just a quick question, how to do you pollinate your chilies in the greenhouse? I would guess not a lot of bees would come inside?
Greetings from Germany!
I encourage bees and bumblrbees into my greenhouse. But I also manually shake some of my plants
@@ChilliChump Thanks!
Awesome video! Curious how those bonchis are doing. Just watched your other videos on them and about to attempt my own.
I updated on them on the last update video. One has died because of a neighbor overwatering when we were away. The other has recovered and is doing well!
What's happening with the three plants in the big pots? Everything looking great though.
I gave an update during the last livestream, the biggest is over 2m high now!
Have your scotch bonnet seeds gone up yet? 2 years in a row now i've been hit by what seems like a UK wide issue, where scotch bonnet seeds turn out to be bishops crown...even by using different suppliers! A lot of people seem to be hit by this, even some buying already grown plants from garden centres that turn out to be the same issue
Wow ..that's not good. I will have a variety of seeds going up in the store over the next 10 days
If you grow chilis to sell the seeds, how do you guarantee that it will be true to the mother when it is grown with 100 other chili plants?
Hey Chump, your plants look gorgeous! How's Frikkie & Koos doing?
I did an update on the last livestream! The biggest is taller than me now...Full on beast mode! Koos is definitely bigger and healthier. Will do a dedicated update soon enough
Very nice video! :) What are you doing with all of the harvest? Do you sell it or do you use all of it yourself?
I run a business selling sauces, spices etc www.chillichump.com/shop
Can you go into why you're not into the taste of scotch bonnets. Those and habaneros are some of my favorite for flavor. I guess to each his own, but find myself curious with your great collection and experience.
Actually spoke about this on a recent monthly livestream. There are a couple West Indian style hot sauces i have had which I REALLY don't like...they were scotch bonnet based and the flavour really put me off scotch bonnets. I am working on a few SB recipes to change this....so we will see
Do you grow any Rocota? Live in nz, so seedlings just sprouting in the small green houses. Will move them into the bigger greenhouse in October...
Yes I do. I showed them in my previous garden update video. I also showed one in my 10 Facts video I think. Very interesting chillies
I love what the poms call a 'heat wave' ... Too bad you didnt escape to Australia when that ship was sailing ;p
I'm from Africa...40'C in the UK is very different to 40'C in somewhere like Africa...or Australia
@@ChilliChump Yes I know you're from Oofrika .. Yeah 40c in the UK would be like 'wahh its so hot why is it so hot' ... elsewhere its like 'fk its hot today' ;p
When will the seed store be restocking?
Really keen to try a couple of the peppers featured in this video.
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There are a few that I'm testing germination rates at the moment. They should be in the store within 10 days.
Need some help, I went away for a week and the weather got crazy over here so some of my plants got zapped and have since lost leaves. What is the best way to get them to recover, carry on as normal, or shift my fertilizer to more nitrogen heavy for a few weeks to encourage new leaves?
Definitely don't add fertiliser. If you really want to, you can add some very diluted seaweed feed. But otherwise, give them a proper watering and continue as usual. If you are expecting more strong sunshine, then you could shade them for part of the day.
Nice video man.!!!
Looking good 👌🏼
40C is cool summer day
40.3 degrees Celsius is an average day in china this past summer was as hot as always with temperatures reaching 47 to 49 degrees Celsius on average for the last 3 to 4 weeks
Would just mixing and mashing ALL my peppers together from regular bell, Carolinas, salsa peppers etc... we have about 6 differant types?
Will you be selling seeds of the Red Primotalii by any chance please?? Been trying to source those seeds forever. Hope all is well. Loving the videos and progress
Hi Ted, yes I will!
I don't know if you've mentioned it but why do you have mesh bags on some of your plants? Can't wait to order seeds from your store!
Here you go! Isolating
ruclips.net/video/P4dBYeKCtow/видео.html
@@ChilliChump Thank you! Also, do you send orders to South Africa? I hope you sell some Scotch bonnet seeds. I find the habanero a little bitter at the end sometimes... Would love to try a new pepper😀😀
Yes, I ship globally. There can be some challenges receiving them because of certain restrictions...but the way I send them, there is a high success rate
Amazing set up. Have to ask - why pots instead of beds or just the ground ?
I have more control with my automation. Less water and nutrient usage, and better yields.
@@ChilliChump Must try that myself. Have had mixed results here in Dublin , raised beds in a polytunnel. Too much water and not enough sun I think. Some chillies with no heat and then Jalapenos that would be insanely hot. Great channel, thanks for all the great info
Have you ever heard or tried Boonie Peppers? My very first hot pepper at 13 yrs old on Guam. Super hots,small pepper on big big bushes.
So happy for you Shaun and I'm not the least bit jealous 😉 beautiful plants and fruit....amazing 👏
Thank you mate
Hey chillichump 😉🤙🏻, love watching your vids. You learned me such more about growing chilli’s 😊👍🏻. This year is my first year of growing them and I’m loving it, but I’m also struggling with bugs on the leaves, and the blossoms getting first drying out and then they falling out. Do you have some tips? And I would love to by your sugar rush stripey 😊👍🏻.
Thank you ! For your flower drop problem, have a look at this video of mine
ruclips.net/video/Mq_R5lDGEUs/видео.html
And for bugs:
ruclips.net/video/q86hMKa7nBI/видео.html
@@ChilliChump thanks for the tips that will help a lot 😊👍🏻.
The heat has actually made the aloe i keep in the kitchen flower, which is a pretty rare event :D
Beautiful! Loved seeing the Aloes flower back in Africa
I discovered the Dorset Naga a few years back . Who on earth would have thought that a chile from England would (for a while at least) be recognized as the world's hottest! One of my hobbies is growing hot chiles. Two years ago I had a garden with ALL of the "record holders" from the last 30 or so years. I called it my garden of mass destruction!
Are they hardy, i.e. would they survive a mild case of winter in the South-east? Only because if they are so big, there won’t be space inside to overwinter them. Just checking if this is a suitable plant for me. It’s definitely fascinating
They won't handle freezing temperatures unfortunately.
@@ChilliChump awww thanks for your response Chilli Chump 👍
I have lost all of my plants all year. All of my plants would not get out of the first leave stage and go into the true leave stage. Any thoughts of why?
Would need to know more details about your growing Frank. Location, soil mix, watering and feeding schedule, indoors/outdoors etc.