My chili plants

Just a vid of my chili plants and a couple tomato plants. It all started when I went to a Thai restaurant and they had a condiment that I really liked. It was a combination of chilis (thai or birds eye), fish sauce and lime juice. It is salty, fishy, hot spicy goodness to put on rice or other things. I like it on rice by itself or with fish stir fried rice.

Anyway I had the recipe thanks to the restaurant owner and I went to the local Asian market store to get fresh chilis and a quality fish sauce(important in the recipe). I made my sauce and had some chilis left over so I wondered if I could grow them. Well they grew easily and soon I had more chilis than I knew what to do with.

While visiting a nursery (Crowley Nursery, thanks Brad) I was given a different chili (Thai) plant. It fruited 5-6 times before dying recently (unknown causes). But it has sired many many offspring including a 4 ft plant that is great.

The habenero chili was grown on a whim. I was at the grocery store and bought 2 chilis for .47cents or so and had originally grown two plants but gave one to my mom who can grow just about anything (true green thumb).

Besides the fish sauce, I love to chop up the chilis and put them on pulled pork or shredded chicken (sure beef would be good but haven't tried it) sandwiches. They are good in stir fries also. Although they are hot they have good flavor also. Hope ya'll enjoy my video. Take care.

Check out my kitten "Tigger" also if you like in his debut video. = )

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[OneCrazyGuy1000]

nice



[Traveler2112]

@OneCrazyGuy1000 Thanks. My 2011 crop is coming along nicely also. Got my first blooms just going. Thanks for watching.

[TheDarkturtwig]

yumm

[Traveler2112]

@TheDarkturtwig Right now all I have is sprouts for the new season. Should have some nice new plants in a couple of months

[jmac10986]

The "ornamental chili plant" you show at 1:20 looks to be a tabasco pepper plant... I could be wrong, but that is what mine looks like... the peppers point upward

[Traveler2112]

@jmac10986 I dont know. All my seeds came from either a nursery where a friend gave me some fresh chilis and I seeded them or fresh chilis that I bought from the oriental market. One exception was the habaneros I grew which were from habaneros I bought from the grocery store and planted the seeds. Regardless they are all yummy. Love them chopped up on pulled pork sandwiches or in a stirfry.

[Traveler2112]

@craigfromnewcastle Link didnt work. Send it to me in a PM

[Traveler2112]

@craigfromnewcastle Im on the Gulf Coast of Florida. South of Tampa.

If you have an Oriental market you can pick up fresh "thai" type chilis there and get the seeds usually.

[craigfromnewcastle]

Yea, same for me too - where are you though?? I'm in the UK.

Here is a video from last year, some of the plants I was growing - we especially liked "Bomber" the Chili Bomb plant with his almost spherical chillies!

This year I'm going to do Birdseyes and Rocoto and Bomber babies :)

wwwDOTfookfacebook.co.uk/1st%2­0August%202010DOThtml

(replace the "DOT"s with "." youtube doesn't allow URL's for some reason.

:)

[Traveler2112]

@craigfromnewcastle Thanks! Dont have anything grown right now cause of winter but plan on a new crop come the spring.