Growing Chilli Peppers
Welcome to thechileman.org, the home of the world's most comprehensive, fully illustrated chile database. Chillies, chilli, paprika, capsicums or chili peppers, it doesn't matter what you call them, we will have detailed information on 3716 varieties. From the mildest bell pepper to mouth blistering bhut and bih jolokia, we provide all you need to know about the capsicum genus and its many species.
Update: 29 June 2008Exciting news if you are a fan of thechileman's Snake Bite Sauces. There is soon to be a new flavour available. Well, I say flavour, technically you won't taste much in the way of flavour before your taste buds go into meltdown. Read on if you think you're hard enough Snake Bite Pure Venom... Update: 07 June 2008The 7 pod was almost unknown last year, but there are almost seventy people with the chilli on their growing list in 2008. Mine is just about to flower. Julian's Journal... Update: 28 May 2008Julian has been busy with his wax crayons and has drawn some diagrams of the database Visualize... Update: 23 May 2008We are giving the website a lick of paint and have just updated the database layout. We have increased the language translation facility from 9 to 22 languages! Database update... Update: 20 May 2008While we work on some updates for the custom growing lists, why not take a look at the top ten peppers you lot are growing. I think we have skewed the numbers with our Jalapeno growing competition, but the super hots seem to be the most popular. Read more in Custom Growing Lists... Update: 14 January 2008Mark has spent the first two weeks of the year ferociously bashing away at his pocket calculator in an effort to bring you thechileman's numerical guide to 2007. Anyone with a fear of numbers should look away now. view the numbers... Update: 13 January 2008Lots of peppers and not sure what to do with them all? Why not build yourself a cold smoker and smoke some of your peppers? Thechileman shows you how to build a cold smoker for less than £10. Julian's Journal... Update: 27 December 2007thechileman jalapeño invitation!! That's right, we want you to grow jalapeños. Any variety of jalapeño, we don't mind which, we just want to see the longest individual pod. For anyone unfamiliar with this pizza topping favourite, it will be relatively quick and easy to grow with the bonus of tasting great. Just make sure you don't eat your biggest pod before you have measured it! The usual host of great prizes and of course the 2008 chileman trophy. We will also be awarding a prize for the nicest example of 'corking'. read more... |
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