So hard to pick. Probably annums just from a culinary standpoint, but chinense might be the most fun to grow for me and I also share in your Peppadew obsession so….
I saw the CC Piri Piri in your shop when I ordered the Naga Morich a week ago, but never did I know CC stood for Chilli Chump. I’ve ordered these now too! Looking forward to growing them here in the Netherlands next season. Thank you Shaun!
I certainly learned something today. Thanks so much for sharing Shaun. I always love your content. Hope you and Mrs. CC have a great weekend. Stay Spicy!!!
@@AlanBonsall if your plants are free from disease then sure, I would just mix in some fresh compost to enrich it. I have a video coming out on the topic soon
Great info ! Never realized how ignorant I was ! Well shot and put together video as usual. Thanks for the great content and looking forward to placing my seed order to get going again in January. Crap season here in Ireland this year so fingers crossed for some sun in '25
Wow. Had no idea there were so many other chilli varieties. I am familiar with the main 5 and thought there might be a couple of others that I've heard mentioned somewhere but that full list is huge.
Wild chilis can still be found here in the paraguayan chaco,the last uncontacted tribe of natives,the Totobiascoide have the custom of grinding up chilis and keeping the chili powder in the shell of a snail,sealed with bees wax,on a necklece,it is the only clothing they use.
Thanks for the great information and recipes! My stuffed pepper recipe is almost identical, but I opt for hotter varieties for the filling. Stuffed hot peppers are also a fave! Cheers🌶
Grabbed a few packs of seeds for next season. Was very lucky to get the cc jigsaw brain before it sold out. Excited to try the cc piri piri. Really looking forward to growing all of them. Very tempted to get an indoor setup going. Also regarding feedback for the website, it would be really nice to add more detailed info to each product page description and possibly any growing tips for the specific variety. Some people love nerd out and learn something while browsing the site and would really appreciate the extra info. Thank you Chilli Chump and happy growing. 🔥👊
Thanks for the feedback! It is down to time really, it is just Mrs ChilliChump and myself keeping everything going. Hopefully we get a little downtime later this year where we can focus on improvements like you mention. The alternative would be to hire someone to help us out with that. But we don't want to be increasing prices as a result. Things will improve over time, we will get there!
My son loves hot chili sauce, I do not lol. But i do love gardening cooking and my son❤ so I would like to find the perfect chili sauce and grow the chili's myself!
Might be worth checking out the habanada he mentioned. You get all the fruity flavor of a habanero without the heat, so you can let loose with the recipes!
@cherylb.9766 can I suggest looking up a number of different recipes? You will get an idea of what a lot of recipes ask for, and then tweak it to your sons desire. Write down every step you take, and weigh absolutely everything. Not hot enough and you add another tablespoon of chilli, write down that you added in that extra. If you like it, add up the total amount of each ingredient used to write out your own actual recipe. Goodluck, and great parenting too, just because you don't like it doesn't mean your son misses out. As he gets older, he will appreciate that I am almost certain of that. If you can get your boy in the kitchen to help make his own chilli sauce it will help with a bit more bonding and quality time, and it could spark some interest or further his interest in either gardening, or cooking. Both great skills for everyone to have
C. annuum has the most variety, so it is my favorite. I'm trying a zero scoville c. frutescens this year, Nobasco, to mix with Tobasco to get a thicker and more flavourful sauce with less heat. I'm doing the same thing with the c. Chinese, using Habanada and Nobanero (or is it Scobanero?) to get more flavour and tone down the heat from the Ninfadora crosses and the Habanero. The Ninfadora cross has a great flavour and is only slightly too hot. I like a couple of c. baccatum Lemon drops peppers in soup. Other c. baccatum I like are Agrio Lago ( no heat ) and Fantasy (low heat). They are very productive and make great salad and snack peppers. C. Pubescens are not very productive for me as they fruit so late, even though they may bloom mid-summer. I would like to try growing the c. flexuosum as it seems that it may overwinter well. Have you tried any c. flexuosum?
Great video. I didn't realise there were so many varieties for each species. For the green salsa, where do you get tomatillos in the UK? Can you get fresh or do you use tinned?
@@ytamb01 I have been growing my own. They are really easy to grow, even here in the UK. But you should be able to get them at a few veg shops....or maybe even Waitrose
@@ChilliChump I haven't had any luck at a supermarket for fresh but I did once get tinned. It made a great green pork chilli. I think you're right, though. I should grow them myself. I'll give it a go next spring.
@@ChilliChump I still plan to, my problem has been getting good viable seed with my tricky growing conditions. I lost my 2 year old plants last winter but managed to get one plant from the small amount of seed I had collected. Plan is to over winter the pant and see how it goes. The last year has been tricky for me! Going to do a little planning over the next few weeks as at my parents recovering from an operation to stabilise my shoulder.
Got my first manzano seeds this year looking forward to those... I've been trying to collect odd species for a while now but seeds don't like to germinate.. Any reliable seed places you could recommend for odd species
Check out fataliiseeds.net. He often has some interesting varieties. I will have a few rarer/more interesting types in stock a little later this year too 👍🏼
Hi ChilliChump, I am very interested in learning about capsicum species, is there a book that you could recommend that could provide the type of information that you discussed in this video? Thanks in anticipation. Alex
great video, very informative, well done! I grow only two varieties, one is Carolina reaper and the other I don't know the name but it is moderately hot and it tastes great, perhaps if I share a picture someone can tell me what variety it is, I got it from the seaside in south Albania (Saranda), and while I don't know the proper name I dubbed them: "Sarandina's" :)
Thank you for this video. Very useful! I've got a few lovely seeds from you and they're successfully growing (even Capsicum Exile - althought no fruits yet :) Just a small problem with Dorset Naga. Lot's of flowers but they are not getting pollinated, even if the other plants around are. Is there any secret I'm missing? PS. I'm using tiny brush. Many thanks!
Nice video, man, although my Latin teacher - also our headmaster, he wore a gown - wouldn't have let me get away with that pronunciation (They still beat us with a stick when I was at school). In fairness - at this stage - who can honestly say WHAT Latin sounded like?
@@ChilliChump Thanks for the clarification. I know that the video was mostly about the species with some notable examples, I just thought it would be mentioned considering you used it in the thumbnail. I once bought seeds of a variety called "Fluorescent" which didn't grow the way it was advertised, instead it looked similar to the one, so I was curious. :)
The most common way is very common in Mexican culture, so much so that you can sometimes find them in Mexican markets as Manzano! They are most often stuffed if it's the lower heat Manzano (the "apple pepper"), if it's called Rocoto, it's a much hotter variety and will be used in delicious Peruvian sauces!
I should probably try growing pubescens at last. I remember TurboPube from CC seedkit which failed to grow for me. I don't remember growing any more pubescens. Do they ferment well?
🌶️ Which is your favourite species?
The little red 1s 🌶
Chinense.... has the flavor and the heat
So hard to pick. Probably annums just from a culinary standpoint, but chinense might be the most fun to grow for me and I also share in your Peppadew obsession so….
All the species you sell.
Although i cant eat them the chinense are my favourites. They just come in such great shapes and look so mean
Great info in this mate especially breaking down the families.
I saw the CC Piri Piri in your shop when I ordered the Naga Morich a week ago, but never did I know CC stood for Chilli Chump. I’ve ordered these now too! Looking forward to growing them here in the Netherlands next season. Thank you Shaun!
All my own creations and hybrids start with CC. I probably should have made that more clear in the listings 😄
I certainly learned something today. Thanks so much for sharing Shaun. I always love your content. Hope you and Mrs. CC have a great weekend. Stay Spicy!!!
Very addicting! I'm hooked for life... Learning something new all the time.
Nice touch included recipes! Thanks for sharing
hi shaun can i use the same compost i used this year to grow chillies for next year thanks
@@AlanBonsall if your plants are free from disease then sure, I would just mix in some fresh compost to enrich it. I have a video coming out on the topic soon
Thanks. Learned something new!
Great video as usual Shaun!!! I adore the "credits" at the end!!!
Thank you mate!
Cherries and habaneros is another one that goes very well together.
Great info ! Never realized how ignorant I was ! Well shot and put together video as usual. Thanks for the great content and looking forward to placing my seed order to get going again in January. Crap season here in Ireland this year so fingers crossed for some sun in '25
Awesome 👍🏻 knowledge .. thanks a ton for explaining a topic which no one has yet been able to share 🙂
Wow. Had no idea there were so many other chilli varieties. I am familiar with the main 5 and thought there might be a couple of others that I've heard mentioned somewhere but that full list is huge.
I always love the absolutely gorgeous photos of the flowers and fruits on these videos.
Thank you mate 🌶️
Wild chilis can still be found here in the paraguayan chaco,the last uncontacted tribe of natives,the Totobiascoide have the custom of grinding up chilis and keeping the chili powder in the shell of a snail,sealed with bees wax,on a necklece,it is the only clothing they use.
Thanks, truly enjoyed the video
Awesome young man 🌶️😎👏
Thanks for this video. Appreciated mate
Thanks for the info!
Fantastic video, thank you!
Wonderful video!
Thank you!
Thanks for the great information and recipes! My stuffed pepper recipe is almost identical, but I opt for hotter varieties for the filling. Stuffed hot peppers are also a fave! Cheers🌶
Grabbed a few packs of seeds for next season. Was very lucky to get the cc jigsaw brain before it sold out. Excited to try the cc piri piri. Really looking forward to growing all of them. Very tempted to get an indoor setup going. Also regarding feedback for the website, it would be really nice to add more detailed info to each product page description and possibly any growing tips for the specific variety. Some people love nerd out and learn something while browsing the site and would really appreciate the extra info. Thank you Chilli Chump and happy growing. 🔥👊
Thanks for the feedback! It is down to time really, it is just Mrs ChilliChump and myself keeping everything going. Hopefully we get a little downtime later this year where we can focus on improvements like you mention. The alternative would be to hire someone to help us out with that. But we don't want to be increasing prices as a result. Things will improve over time, we will get there!
My son loves hot chili sauce, I do not lol. But i do love gardening cooking and my son❤ so I would like to find the perfect chili sauce and grow the chili's myself!
Might be worth checking out the habanada he mentioned. You get all the fruity flavor of a habanero without the heat, so you can let loose with the recipes!
@cherylb.9766 can I suggest looking up a number of different recipes? You will get an idea of what a lot of recipes ask for, and then tweak it to your sons desire. Write down every step you take, and weigh absolutely everything. Not hot enough and you add another tablespoon of chilli, write down that you added in that extra. If you like it, add up the total amount of each ingredient used to write out your own actual recipe.
Goodluck, and great parenting too, just because you don't like it doesn't mean your son misses out. As he gets older, he will appreciate that I am almost certain of that. If you can get your boy in the kitchen to help make his own chilli sauce it will help with a bit more bonding and quality time, and it could spark some interest or further his interest in either gardening, or cooking. Both great skills for everyone to have
In my opinion, Capsicum Chinese is the most beautiful domesticated species? Stunning leaves, gorgeous looking pods!
I find most of the super hots like to be paired with fresh lime, I love to add a slice of lime of some lime juice
I pretty much stick with varieties of Jalapeno. They're hot enough for me and the hot sauce I make with them are versatile.
Thanks Shaun been a slow year some of my plants are only just flowering 😢
C. annuum has the most variety, so it is my favorite. I'm trying a zero scoville c. frutescens this year, Nobasco, to mix with Tobasco to get a thicker and more flavourful sauce with less heat. I'm doing the same thing with the c. Chinese, using Habanada and Nobanero (or is it Scobanero?) to get more flavour and tone down the heat from the Ninfadora crosses and the Habanero. The Ninfadora cross has a great flavour and is only slightly too hot. I like a couple of c. baccatum Lemon drops peppers in soup. Other c. baccatum I like are Agrio Lago ( no heat ) and Fantasy (low heat). They are very productive and make great salad and snack peppers. C. Pubescens are not very productive for me as they fruit so late, even though they may bloom mid-summer. I would like to try growing the c. flexuosum as it seems that it may overwinter well. Have you tried any c. flexuosum?
I haven't had much luck with the flexuosum unfortunately.
Great video. I didn't realise there were so many varieties for each species. For the green salsa, where do you get tomatillos in the UK? Can you get fresh or do you use tinned?
@@ytamb01 I have been growing my own. They are really easy to grow, even here in the UK. But you should be able to get them at a few veg shops....or maybe even Waitrose
@@ChilliChump I haven't had any luck at a supermarket for fresh but I did once get tinned. It made a great green pork chilli. I think you're right, though. I should grow them myself. I'll give it a go next spring.
I have Capsicum Rabenii, fra Brasil
Very cool! The flowers on those are stunning. it's difficult to find seeds for those in Europe.
Just bought some chilli seeds from you :)
@@hubertcht thank you!
Aji Umba is in my opinion the best
It would be a cool idea for you to try and grow at least 1 of every species next season as a challenge! Might take a bit of planning…
Would be nice....but sourcing many of them would be almost impossible! Some of the wild species are extremely rare.
I do like the challenge of growing wilds
Definitely a challenge with some of them!
@@ChilliChump still have a galapagoense plant going!
@@wardy89 if I remember correctly you were going to send me some seeds 😉
@@ChilliChump I still plan to, my problem has been getting good viable seed with my tricky growing conditions. I lost my 2 year old plants last winter but managed to get one plant from the small amount of seed I had collected. Plan is to over winter the pant and see how it goes. The last year has been tricky for me! Going to do a little planning over the next few weeks as at my parents recovering from an operation to stabilise my shoulder.
Got my first manzano seeds this year looking forward to those...
I've been trying to collect odd species for a while now but seeds don't like to germinate..
Any reliable seed places you could recommend for odd species
Check out fataliiseeds.net. He often has some interesting varieties. I will have a few rarer/more interesting types in stock a little later this year too 👍🏼
Hi ChilliChump, I am very interested in learning about capsicum species, is there a book that you could recommend that could provide the type of information that you discussed in this video? Thanks in anticipation. Alex
great video, very informative, well done!
I grow only two varieties, one is Carolina reaper and the other I don't know the name but it is moderately hot and it tastes great, perhaps if I share a picture someone can tell me what variety it is, I got it from the seaside in south Albania (Saranda), and while I don't know the proper name I dubbed them: "Sarandina's" :)
Send it over, will take a look. Https://chillichump.com/contact
Thank you for this video. Very useful! I've got a few lovely seeds from you and they're successfully growing (even Capsicum Exile - althought no fruits yet :) Just a small problem with Dorset Naga. Lot's of flowers but they are not getting pollinated, even if the other plants around are. Is there any secret I'm missing? PS. I'm using tiny brush. Many thanks!
Hi there! Take a look at this video, should be what you are looking for th-cam.com/video/XBvR-D1Z_1c/w-d-xo.html
@@ChilliChump Thank you!
Ahhh the addiction disclaimer is a few years late. 🌶️🥰🌶️
Nice video, man, although my Latin teacher - also our headmaster, he wore a gown - wouldn't have let me get away with that pronunciation (They still beat us with a stick when I was at school).
In fairness - at this stage - who can honestly say WHAT Latin sounded like?
What is the pepper in the thumbnail?? I grew a mystery pepper plant that looks like that one. I gotta know!!😂
They are Bolivian Rainbow. Beautiful variety
@@ChilliChump Thank you
I've given up on the Capsium pubescens after trying to get them to germinate for the last four years. All other chilis grow fine 🤷
Do you ever bother growing the 'devil chili' from South Africa?
You talking about the African birds eye?
@ChilliChump ah, I'm from Durban, and we just call it the devil chili, never knew it had a proper name, thanks for that.
Could you please add the costs for things in your store in US dollars for your friends in America that would like to order? ❤
Sure, will do that!
🦁💪🌶️👏👏👏👏
Did I somehow miss it or did you not talk about the one variety shown in the thumbnail? I was really hoping to hear more about it.
It's a Bolivian Rainbow. I didn't talk about varieties specifically in this one, more about the species.
@@ChilliChump Thanks for the clarification. I know that the video was mostly about the species with some notable examples, I just thought it would be mentioned considering you used it in the thumbnail. I once bought seeds of a variety called "Fluorescent" which didn't grow the way it was advertised, instead it looked similar to the one, so I was curious. :)
Have you grown Wiri Wiri Peppers?
I grew them last year
@@ChilliChump i just got some fresh wiri wiri. Will plant them for next summer.
How do you use the pubescence types?
The most common way is very common in Mexican culture, so much so that you can sometimes find them in Mexican markets as Manzano! They are most often stuffed if it's the lower heat Manzano (the "apple pepper"), if it's called Rocoto, it's a much hotter variety and will be used in delicious Peruvian sauces!
You forgot Cumaris... C.Praetermissum 😉Quite common, "cultivated wild"
Why does it take my Aji Amarillo forever to ripen. It's ridiculous.
I should probably try growing pubescens at last. I remember TurboPube from CC seedkit which failed to grow for me. I don't remember growing any more pubescens.
Do they ferment well?
They are strong fermenters. Personally I think they are better fresh, or in fresh sauces.
It’s not Kay-in it’s Ky-Ann
Great video!