More news on chillis

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Some of you will be aware that I am a bit keen on (some would say obsessed with) growing chillis. I have been overwintering some plants which I bought last year, but didn’t want to lose. I started with 5, but 2 of them have not survived. However, the remaining 3 are looking OK. There’s not much wrong with this “Red Habanero” is there? I think you could reasonably describe it as “vigorous”.

“Red Habanero”

The other two plants are both of the variety “Nosferatu”, which has foliage that begins life green, but gradually darkens as it matures, eventually becoming more-or-less black. Likewise, the fruits start off being a sort of chocolatey purple, but ripen to dark red.

“Nosferatu” – immature fruit

This is what the “Nosferatu” plants look like  – thin and tatty lower down, but with lots of bushy new growth at the top. I would like to emphasise that this one has been brought into the kitchen purely for the sake of photographing it. It normally lives on a windowsill in our guest bedroom.

As you can see, the old, dark-coloured leaves are looking very disreputable, starting to go brown and curl up. Not very handsome at all!

However, from each leaf axil a tiny new green leaf is appearing:

Wherever you pinch out a shoot, the branch produces two new shoots.

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