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Old 12-04-2012, 10:59 AM   #1
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Default Chilli peppers, anyone grow them?

If you plant the seeds from a chilli pepper you have bought from the supermarket in compost will they grow into a plant and produce chilli peppers?

..or is it not as simple as that?

I fancy growing some different kinds but the only ones I ever see are at garden centres in about June in little pots and they grow into a little bush, I want a go at the scotch bonnet type and finger type ones. I know you can buy seeds but are they just from a dried chilli or have they been chilled or treated in some way?
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Old 12-04-2012, 11:45 AM   #2
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Hi Alan check out simpsons seeds they have most peppers on there site if you type in pepper seeds on there you will find them had some from them last year
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Old 12-04-2012, 12:15 PM   #3
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The seeds from shop bought chillies would probably not grow Alan. They are more than likely to be sterile. The propagation and hybridisation process usually means they can't reproduce from seed. You might be lucky but your best bet is to buy seed. You can get some weird and wonderful ones from ebay. There are some that look like penises.
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Old 12-04-2012, 12:22 PM   #4
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Our house is filled with Chilli plants, literally 50 or more, they are home grown from chillies I picked from a chilli plant we bought last year and allowed the chillies to dry. I am more than happy to send you some of our spare seeds if you pm me your address. I just threw them in a pot of seed compost and they went mad, after that I thinned them into smaller individual pots and half the family have some now
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Old 12-04-2012, 12:28 PM   #5
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Here are some Scotch bonnet http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HOT-CHILLI...item41649bb93d

And some of the penis ones http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PETER-PEPP...item35bb2ebf10
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we normally grow a couple of chilli plants every year and the chilli's always taste great they pretty much get left in the window to do there own thing with minimal effort on our part lol
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thanks I'm goin to look at shop later
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Old 12-04-2012, 04:59 PM   #9
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I've successfully grown Birdseye chillis from the seeds of a supermarket bought chilli Alan, no probs. I grew about 5 different varieties of chillis last year, I love filling the greenhouse up with them. i want to makechilli jam this year

Scotch bonnet?? They are evil, have you ever tried cooking with them? They burn your eyes as they cook, but the worst has to be the Dorset Nagga...I wouldn't inflict that on my worst enemy
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The Dorset Nagga is that the one hottest indie world, i like my chilli fairly mild to mid hot.
Scotch bonnet's a bit of a ring burner.
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