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!
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 👌😊
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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!
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
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!
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.
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.
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?
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
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
@@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
Save seeds from that sugar rush stripy with the stinger and the beautiful contrasting stripes I have some seeds but I couldn’t get any to germinate this year for some reason they must all the duds but that one’s got a stinger if I were you I’d save those and try to stabilize that pod shape with the stinger on it
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
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.
I never see any wild bird pepper variety. True texas chile pequin, with the small leaves and zig zagging stems. They grow wild supported by underbrush. I grew some "chile pequins" and the plant looks like a normal pepper plant. If you find the pequins that stay completely round, never point, and grow chiliess upwards, thats the one. Back in San Antonio texas, ive had mature plants growing in red tip bushes, about 8 feet tall, more than 10 years old.
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
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?
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.
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!
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.
I have 2 indoor chili plants that are 2x the height of all my other indoor plants, but the weird part about them they have branches that are thicker than the main stem
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.🌞
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 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
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!
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?
