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 3727 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: 24 August 2008More than 750 people worldwide now have a growing list with thechileman.org and today they have reached the magic number of 1,000 unique varieties. That's almost a third of the varieties in our database are currently being grown somewhere in the world! Growing Lists... Update: 24 August 2008Tales of brown peppers in Julian's Journal... Update: 17 August 2008With exactly two weeks to go this year's growing competition is closer than ever with the top four competitiors separated by just 3mm!! Jalapeno Invitation... Update: 16 August 2008Is the tail on the Trinidad Scorpion and the Scorpion Morouga caused by the flower restricting growth, or by a genetic trait Julian's Journal... Update: 3 August 2008The Hot Zone Online have reviewed our new Pure Venom sauce, giving it 9 for taste and 10 for heat. 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... |
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