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Chilli Chirps @chillichirps.bsky.social · 16h

You really should - with cream cheese* on toast, it's the breakfast of champions. It's the one thing I make that my partner wouldn't be without, although she might find this one a bit spicy.

*Mild goat cheese is the professional choice, if you like that kind of thing.

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Chilli Chirps @chillichirps.bsky.social · 16h

True! I'll prep another bowl for the trick-or-treaters...

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Chilli Chirps @chillichirps.bsky.social · 1d

Those are beauties! More spider monkey than scorpion :)

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Chilli Chirps @chillichirps.bsky.social · 1d

A mixed bunch of Buena Mulata, prepped to make a pretty spicy chilli achar. Not sure how it's going to work out, but my usual green chilli stock hasn't done well enough to make a jar's worth.🌶️🌱

Purple, orange and red slices of Buena Mulata chilli pepper, looking radiant on a drab day on an outdoor table beneath an overhung sky.

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Chilli Chirps @chillichirps.bsky.social · 6d

Hi there! Thanks for responding. I've got a very small feed, and, because the word chilli and the chilli emoji provoked about 100:1 false positive, I narrowed the criteria down to variants of "🌶️🌱". But most posts don't get picked up. Here's one I did as a test:
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Chilli Chirps @chillichirps.bsky.social · 10d

I took a good haul off this Buena Mulata the other day, but it still looks crazy as a Christmas tree. Quite a small plant, despite the 20 litre pot, making it a clear winner in the harvest:plant-size contest.🌶️🌱

A Buena Mulata chilli plant, festooned with at least 3 dozen peppers, ranging in colour from bright purple, through shades of peachy orange, and eventually to red (actually might have picked all the reddest ones).

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Chilli Chirps @chillichirps.bsky.social · 6d

Apologies to all for the state of 'Hot Peppers' feed. Now that they've gone all premium I've been trying to transfer to @graze.social . But @graze.social doesn't pick up all the posts either, so I'm a bit stuck. Anyone got any ideas? 🌶️🌱

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Chilli Chirps @chillichirps.bsky.social · 10d

Absolutely. I've got this and another outdoors, and that's not far behind. Almost more peppers than leaves. Surpassed all expectations!

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Chilli Chirps @chillichirps.bsky.social · 10d

They really are. Would recommend...
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Chilli Chirps @chillichirps.bsky.social · 16d

Colour range of ripening Buena Mulata chillies, unripe nearest, ripe farthest. 🌶️🌱

11 buena mulata hot peppers, lined up on a bench. The nearest is unripe, and a bright violet in colour. The colours then graduate through pale violet, peach, orange, dark red and finally, the fully ripe one at the far end is pure red.

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Chilli Chirps @chillichirps.bsky.social · 10d

Slow reply, because there's still a bit of green on the flip side, so I've been giving it a couple of days to ripen. I picked it because a) I've waited ages already and b) there's a bunch more green ones I'm hoping the plant can put some energy into.

Hoping to have a flavour answer tomorrow!

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Chilli Chirps @chillichirps.bsky.social · 10d

You're probably right: mine was outside (UK), and only set fruit when the early summer heatwaves stopped. Which could be coincidence, but I've previously had other pubescens (mini olive) which I had to take out of the greenhouse because they struggled with the heat.

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Chilli Chirps @chillichirps.bsky.social · 10d

I took a good haul off this Buena Mulata the other day, but it still looks crazy as a Christmas tree. Quite a small plant, despite the 20 litre pot, making it a clear winner in the harvest:plant-size contest.🌶️🌱

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Chilli Chirps @chillichirps.bsky.social · 10d

Fluke for me too, but not such a good one!

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Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 11d

Q:Which fictional classic medieval hero was most effective at weeding?
A: Ivanhoe

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Chilli Chirps @chillichirps.bsky.social · 13d

There are several reasons I'm expecting this to be very hot.
1. It's fairly hot, up to 100,000 SHU
2. There's a lot of it: cut it open, and the inside looks more like a tomato than a pepper.
3. C. pubescens have a higher proportion of dihydrocapsaicin, which has (imo) a fuller mouthfeel

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Chilli Chirps @chillichirps.bsky.social · 13d

At last, my first Rocoto!

They were a total no-show last year, yet this year's plant is laden.

Very late, but being so big and fleshy they take a while to ripen. This one, the size of a generous tomato, weighs 50g, whereas the big Fatalii I posted earlier weighed only 5 👀

#pubescens 🌶️🌱

A ripe red rocoto pepper, held between thumb and forefinger - about the size of a good tomato. Rocotos are a variety of Capsicum pubescens, and as such have black seeds and extremely thick flesh - while most peppers have a lot of air inside, these have a lot of pepper inside. As a consequence, this one weighs 50g, while your average habanero might be a tenth of that.

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Chilli Chirps @chillichirps.bsky.social · 13d

Oops forgot my tags - 🌶️🌱 - then again, I can just add it to the feed. I'd have to anyway, since the auto-add doesn't work now unless you pay 'em.

Keep using the tags though, it gives me something to search for so I can add them manually 😊

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Chilli Chirps @chillichirps.bsky.social · 13d

Fatalii at sunset.

These are beautiful looking peppers, and tasty, but like all my chinense this year, they're coming through too slowly to make a single variety sauce. They'll add to the mix though, and I'll try for more next year

A Fatalii chilli pepper on a faded railway sleeper, photographed in the last rays of the setting sun. The pepper is a vivid yellow and the stalk bright green, contrasting against the bluish shadows on the wooden background.

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Chilli Chirps @chillichirps.bsky.social · 14d

I need to make this. Haven't had a bread coma all week!

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Chilli Chirps @chillichirps.bsky.social · 15d

Looks a bit like this one, though that's not much help since I don't know what this one is 🤷
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Chilli Chirps @chillichirps.bsky.social · Jul 23

Mystery chilli #2 is now ripe - any ideas? It's extremely hot and very gnarly, with a more matte, peachy red appearance than the camera suggests. 🔥🌱🌶️

A mystery chilli, C. chinense, hanging on the plant. It has a contorted shape, creased and twisted with a pointy tail. The skin is rough and bumpy, with a matte appearance, and a shade somewhere between pale orange and brick red (though the photo makes it look bright orange).

A mystery chilli, C. chinense, removed from the plant and laid on a piece of wood. It has a contorted shape, creased and twisted with a pointy tail. The skin is rough and bumpy, with a matte appearance, and a shade somewhere between pale orange and brick red (though the photo makes it look bright orange).

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Chilli Chirps @chillichirps.bsky.social · 16d

I'm nominating it for the Oxford English Dictionary Word Of The Year.

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Chilli Chirps @chillichirps.bsky.social · 16d

Colour range of ripening Buena Mulata chillies, unripe nearest, ripe farthest. 🌶️🌱

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Chilli Chirps @chillichirps.bsky.social · 16d

Strangely enough, I don't think it's an actual word. Knobbiness seems to be the word, but it didn't feel quite right, so I stuck with the 'L' version. I mean, language can evolve, right?

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Chilli Chirps @chillichirps.bsky.social · 16d

So you did! These are off a small, neglected plant I gifted a fellow community gardener and re-adopted in their absence, so there's not many on it. My bigger, main plant only has weird little stubby fruits, so I'm wondering if it's a cross or there's still some instability.

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Chilli Chirps @chillichirps.bsky.social · 17d

These fruity volcanoes really look the part in all their red hot knobbliness. 🌶️🌱

Two Fruity Volcano chillies, Capsicum chinense, about 3 inches long, bright red and knobbly, lying on a log

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Chilli Chirps @chillichirps.bsky.social · 17d

This 7-Pot Brain Strain came with a notable amount of liquid pain pooled inside.

I've put it in the freezer for now, where it can't do any damage, but sooner or later I'm going to have to deal with it properly. 🌶️🌱

Half of a 7-Pot Brain Strain chilli, with the seeds removed, showing a small quantity of hostile liquid pooled inside it

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