This, is a Chocolate Habarnero Chilli.
It's hot... really hot. So hot that if a capsicum rates zero on the scoville scale, this baby can get up to 385 000. So hot in fact that I am a touch chicken of this chilli. I am also a little chicken of how to actually spell chili, but that's neither here nor there.
Okay, blathering and spelling aside, this chilli scares the bejeezers out of me. But I have been asked to try to grow some seedlings from it as a favour (people are under the mistaken assumption that ali plants = ali grows), and so try to grow this baby I will.
I have read and heard lots of advice about growing chillis, and as usual I am just going to choose the one that suits me best. Because I don't want to handle the chilli, let along cut it open and pick out the seeds, I have chosen the "plant the whole thing, wait for seedlings, then separate method".
Then, after the 100 days they may take to germinate, wait for the seedlings to develop 5 leaves, and then plant out. Up in the air. High, somewhere the boys will never get to. Perhaps the roof of the house? Well drained soil, lots of potassium, not too much nitrogen, did I say very well drained, keep them wet but not too wet, full sun but perhaps not the Australian version of full sun... and I think that's it.
Oh, and mulch well.
Wish me luck.
ps I was going to entitle this post as H for Habarnero, but I just so wanted to use scovilles in the title that I couldn't resist.
But I reserve the right to use this for H if I can't find anything else.
6 comments:
Love the title. They really are the alpha males of the chilli world which is what I think they are good for -- offering to those who say they've never met a chilli they can't handle.
Good luck on the chilli front!
I once made chilli and tomato jam and instead of using a barmix to mash / blitz the diced toms and chillies together I used my hands. What a stupid chilli virgin nuff nuff! for the next 2 DAYS my hands were in agony! I havnt touched a chilli since.
Jam was great though...
I have never understood why they named something so hot...chilli? I know, different language etc. but you would think...hot, or sizzling would have been more apt. You be careful little Ali, I don't want you ending up like Phoebe.
Look at the picture. It looks like the chili is smiling and thinking, "Go ahead, bite me!"
Ah. So that's what the shredder machine was for: making mulch for growing your chilli plants in...
BTW, 385,000 Scovilles is NOTHING to some people... Try the Bhut Jolokia, or the Dorset Naga, both with about a Million... Have you visited http://chillipepperheaven.blogspot.com/
It's a site specialising in chilli-related stuff. Coincidentally it is run by a bloke called James Fowkes, who was a flatmate of my daughter Emma in their university days... Worth a look if you're interested in chillis.
Missy I'm glad you like the title, I do like to throw around the word, it makes me feel like I might know something special... and I might have to send one to Mark!
Hazel I will be careful, don't worry I am a bit of a girly girl when it comes to pain... poor Phoebe, would it have helped if you dipped your hands in yoghurt I wonder...
Veggie Pak that chilli is not going to go anywhere near my dinner plate and Mark... I dare you :p
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