birds eye chilli

do all birds eye chillie turn red because I think I have full size fruits and I don't want them to go bad should I pick now (outside & bring inside at night) cheers fil7

Yes, they do.
Grow them all the time.
Pick them when they are Red.
You can pick them Green if you like a little less heat.
Here in Hawaii this type of Pepper is called the Hawaiian Chili I believe from my searches.
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you ever tried to grow ghost peppers pain in my arse

we have something called a birds eye but the ones wild around here are a purple

IMO, birds-eye tend to turn red later but faster than most chillies. They go through the same green/orange red stages as sweet peppers but later and in a shorter time period. Cayennes and Jalepenos are great to grow too.

tekdc911 said:

you ever tried to grow ghost peppers pain in my arse

we have something called a birds eye but the ones wild around here are a purple

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Dorset Naga... I don't know if it was harder to grow or to swallow. Either way I ain't planting this sumbitch ever again. Wasn't worth it at all.

I have grown ghost for the past 3 years , I dont find them hard to grow at all

Harvest is a different story .... I always wind up burning the krap out of myself no mater the precautions I take

This year I wore gloves and a tyvec suit ..... It still hurt

LIBERTYCHICKEN said:

I have grown ghost for the past 3 years , I dont find them hard to grow at all

Harvest is a different story .... I always wind up burning the krap out of myself no mater the precautions I take

This year I wore gloves and a tyvec suit ..... It still hurt

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you live in a place with low RH ?

I wish

In on a sogy island

its humid as hell here only got 1 to pop and that was in my box none popped outside

im growing a couple different strains of super hots since i cant grow some good smoke. my lil bhut bush has too many peppers and my out door dwc choco trinidads are retarded covered in peppers =D i live in az and people on the pepper forum said i was doomed from the beginning =D . cant wait to germ the next gen of seed!! hopefully some random crosses!

tekdc911 said:

its humid as hell here only got 1 to pop and that was in my box none popped outside

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do you hand polinate or let nature?i get a higher success rate with peppers when i hand polinate

Generally as long as they are sorta hard like green peppers they are good.
Semi-soft you should use right away, otherwise I throw them in the compost pile.

Grew some habaneros this year.
They kick some ass.

NPK20 said:

do you hand polinate or let nature?i get a higher success rate with peppers when i hand polinate

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I like to let them pollinate naturally

I even pick off about 1/3 of the flowers , that way I get larger fruit , but less fruit

I have tried to grow birds eye, the original genetics from Africa (got them through horizon organics out of oregon I think). Where I live they are tough to grow (short growing season). The Hawaiian birds eye is similar but larger and slightly less hot (but still very hot!). I have found the hotter they are the tougher to germ and the longer to mature. My trinidad scorpion did nothing this year.

I always just let them self pollinate. I sometimes give them a good shake to make sure the pollen is distributing. Wish I lived in a better climate for growing them.

NPK20 said:

do you hand polinate or let nature?i get a higher success rate with peppers when i hand polinate

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i believe they were natural i got them from a buddy of mine he had a few going

Yea I noticed the hotter the strain the more difficult they are to germ. none of my 7 pot yellow brains took .... I've had the best success rate with just coco and water. I also soak the seed in water for a day to let them soften up. then lay flat and wait up to a month!! my fatalli took a month and a half to sprout.

fil7 said:

do all birds eye chillie turn red because I think I have full size fruits and I don't want them to go bad should I pick now (outside & bring inside at night) cheers fil7

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you can also pick them off right before.they ripen when multi colored. should ripen in a paper bag on a couple days!

Birds eye love hot and humid areas.

My grandfather grew them in Durban, KZN. The plants grow and fruit all year.

I grow them in Gauteng, they die off in winter and you need to plant more in spring.

I've managed to over-winter (I think it was) cayennes indoors before. I cut them back hard and re-potted. I think about a third of them made it.

I get germination nearly every time.

I get a small pot of moist compost, make a half cm hole, drop 2 in per pot just incase I get a failure, lightly cover and spray, then I keep the in the closet with the hps for heat and keep them moist and they sprout after about 7 - 10 days. I would say the temp in there is about 28 - 30 c.

Now, I tried to grow a ghost recently, it grew short and bushy, got one flower on it then started to die and I just tossed it. I hate the sight of a dying plant. I have 2 t scorps going right now, in the small seedling stage, hopeful I will get some peppers off them by late summer. Though I do all my growing indoor under the hps as my climate sucks too much for chillies, so I don't know how long it will take.