Growing Hot Chili Peppers on Window Sill 🌱

in #gardening7 years ago (edited)

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Short little article from me today. I am growing chili peppers for 2nd year now. Results are good enough.

At first I was not really interested in hot peppers, until one day (2 years ago) coworker offered me home grown and marinated chili peppers from his mother and I did try it. It burned my mouth, but also it made plain food taste better and since then I am a fan!

Bought some seeds online: Demon Red (organic) and tried my luck on window sill.

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"Demon Red - Compact plants about 35 cm high, ideal for growing on the window sill or patio. The small, horn shaped, bright red fruit are delicious and hot, having a Scoville Heat Unit rating of 30,000 to 50,000 dependant on maturity."

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First 2 plants, as soon as they started to grow I left them in the sun over weekend as I was away and they died. The sun was too much for them. In beginning have to keep them in partial shadow, learned that the hard way.

Next 2 plants Survived and grew to produce some hot peppers.

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I did enjoy them fresh with Kebab or with my usual meal.

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Mrs. Snail makes excellent pumpkin soup with hot peppers added. Unfortunately we ran out of dried hot peppers for the time being. But...

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But, This year I am growing 30 hot pepper plants in 4 different varieties, all on window sill and they are doing pretty alright.

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Also, I saved the plants from Previous year and they are Already producing hot peppers and turning red way before other plants. Even from the same variety.

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Thanks for reading. Hope you enjoyed it. Will keep you updated as they grow. ;) If you grow hot peppers as well, share in comments bellow.

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Ahhh love hot peppers. Gets the digestion moving and some nice antibacterial action too .. clears out the lungs - I have them with meals at least twice a day.. usually the hungarian hot pepper rings. Your harvest looks good - really hot - one of those hot peppers will go a long way :)