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Hairy Little Fellas

March 10, 2012

I was watering the seedlings today and as the light shone through the window i realised just how hairy some of them are. Both the lemon drops (top) and rocoto red (middle and bottom) are pretty hairy looking when you get up close! Since moving them under my CFL grow light their growth has sped [...]

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How to Remove Aphids

February 17, 2012

After some good germination rates on my fist batch of peppers this year the first issue I ran into was an aphid infestation in my seedling light box. It’s quite common to get aphids when growing indoors so it wasn’t the greatest surprise when i noticed the little green critters munching their way into my [...]

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Our Top 10 Chilli Recipes

February 19, 2011

I’ve been receiving a lot of mail from readers recently about our recipes. We’ve been posting chilli related recipes on the site for quite a while now so I thought I’d pull together a list of our top 10 most popular recipes we’ve posted here on the ChilliKing over the last few years in case [...]

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Buy Chilli Futures!

February 17, 2011

I was interested to read in the press that chillies are trading at an all time high. This article describes how the this years poor crop due to flooding and bad weather across India, Bangladesh as well as flooding in Pakistan and China has cause a poor quality crop and lower yields. As a result [...]

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Chilli Porn

December 4, 2010

Sometime you don’t need words…. image by eye.contact! image by Fabrice Rose image by wstryder image by Ivan Cabrera image by Stuart Hamilton

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Chilli Bread Recipe

November 10, 2010

A while a go I discovered this great no knead bread recipe that showed me it was possible to make truly great bread with minimal work or mess. Seriously if you like good quality bread you MUST try this bread recipe. When I first wrote up the bread recipe I promised to experiment with the [...]

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2009 Chilli Growing Season Progress

June 14, 2009

As mentioned in my last update I put my plants under a cfl grow light to give them a boost having started off this season so late. As you can see from the pictures the plants have made great progress under the lights At the weekend I re potted the plants from the 3″ plastic [...]

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Grow Lights for Chillies

May 10, 2009

Up until a couple of weeks ago the chilli seedlings had been under regular flourescent tube lights down in the cellar. With the arrival of some good weather a few weeks ago I moved them outside into the mini greenhouse. Unfortunately the weather seems to have taken a turn for the worse again – sunny [...]

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2009 Chilli Season Underway

March 18, 2009

Well usually at the ChilliKing our growing season starts some time in November. Unfortunately due to other projects we have not had a chance to get some seeds in the ground…..until now! Here are the varieties we got under way yesterday: Orange Habanero Chocolate Habanero Aurora Tabasco Bulgarian Carrots Scotch bonnet Jalapeno None of the [...]

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Eat Chillies to Lose Weight

November 11, 2008

Most people know that having a higher metabolism means you burn more calories. But what exactly is metabolism? Metabolism is the amount of energy (measured in calories) that your body burns in order to maintain itself. Every individual’s metabolism is dependant on a huge number of variables such as their fat to muscle ratio, [...]

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