More chili's

"Black Pearl", which claims to be "very hot"...

In the ground, between tyres, next to guava tree. Bought in Cape Town.

Leftmost rear is "King of the North", and seven seeds planted a few weeks back have taken. They're at the two leaf stage.
Rightmost rear is "Sweet Banana", but only three took. I planted a few more today.
Leftmost front is "Giant Aconcagua", planted today.
Rightmost front is "Nu Mex Big Jim", also planted today.

I'll do "Giant Jalapeno" tomorrow in the spare tyre near the Pepperdews.
Update 2015/11/15: Done.

Update 2016/01/28:

Leftmost front is now Brown Poblano, Rightmost rear is replanted Sweet Banana.

Update 2016/02/14:

This is the Nu-Mex Big Jim. Two plants have survived and seem pretty healthy. The three chili's are big - so far about 10cm long - and reputedly hot. There's more on the way.

So, that took exactly three months.

There are a few Brown Poblano and Sweet Banana seedlings at the two/four leaf stage, and there are quite a few King of the North plants flowering, with some small fruit.

Update 2016/02/17:

Most of my chili plants are suffering from leaf curl despite growing vigorously. This doesn't seem to affect their flowering or the fruit that does grow. I've been googling this, and there's lots of theories about virus infection, lack of nutrients, plants being root bound, over watered, etc.

There was one comment about thrips (thysanoptera) being responsible. I'll have to see if I can capture some. Pity I can't ask my dad (Charles Frederic J-G) what they are - he always maintained that the only real world job an entomologist could get was one killing insects.

Update 2016/02/21:

Nu Mex Big Jim looking big.

Black Pearl going red... No thrips on this one.