Where abouts in the U.S are you? As most of the US is further south than the
UK, you get much better weather for growing them than we do. Over here it's
quite hard to get seedlings at nurseries as growing chillies here is nowhere
near as common an activity.
I've also got some Bolivian Rainbow chilli plants growing this year which
are in flower at the moment and are just starting to grow a few purple
colour peppers!

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Regards,
Greg (www.chilli-heads.com)

"Stubby" wrote in message
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chilli-heads.com wrote:
Anybody on here like to grow chilli peppers? I've been growing them for
the past few years now and you get surprisingly good results here in the
UK.
This growing season started off a bit iffy with the weather, but the sun
has been shining over the past few weeks and my Cayenne chilli plants
have some nice big peppers growing on them now! Can't wait to eat them
later in the summer.
I'd be interested in hearing if others enjoy growing them also.
If you are interested in chillies and hot and spicy food, I've just
started a website dedicated to chillies and spicy food. I'm also selling
chilli seeds through the site includingg the second hottest variety in
the world. I will be opening up a discussion forum on the site as well so
that people can share their growing tips and spicy recipes!


Chilli seeds are commonly available in the US, but they are hard to grow.
It's much better to start with seedlings started in a local nursery.
I've grown habeneros, cayenne, jalapenos, Hungarian wax peppers from
nurery stock. The growing season is quite long, resulting in a "success
disasater" in early September. I pickle and dry the peppers but fresh is
always betters.