My 2010 ornamental chili peppers
Growing chili peppers
October 18, 2010
The ornamental chili plants begin to lose their leaves: I hope they will last until Christmas, like the last year winter chilies but it's definitely time for a review.
 Certainly the most fascinating is the Rain forest tricolor, with purple and green and pods that ripen in amazing variegated stripes of green, yellow, orange and red.
 I love the Ecuadorian Purple too, round black pods that ripen from black to bright red, in sharp contrast with the black leaves.
 The best plant is the Black Frida: a large shrub, very productive, with many fruits that ripen from black to orange. The summer peppers are drying on the plant, but several new black pods have already born.
 The Peruvian Purple is an ornamental, dark plant, with pods that ripen from black to red.
 The Fluorescent Purple is a plant that resisted the previous winter, with pods that ripen from purple to red. The name Fluorescent is well deserved because of its amazing purple variegated leaves.
 The Cat's Claw pods ripen from green to red.
 The Bolivian Rainbow pods ripen from yellow-purple to orange and finally to red, creating a rainbow of colors.
 I had to wait for the Black Pearl this year, a plant with black leaves and round black pods, but is still among the most beautiful plants.
 I grow a traviata plant last year, saved the seeds without isolating them and I got this lovely hybrid, different than the original plant but very productive and colorful.
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Black chilies
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