Sunday, July 09, 2006

White Hot Chillis

After my Infra-red Bury St Edmunds post, Andrew from down the road suggested in a Flickr comment that I try using the white colour balance feature of my camera in conjunction with the IR filter. So here's the result on looking into the greenhouse at the chillis.

White hot plants!

And while we are here, let me give you an update on the "Chilli Farm". Here's a normal colour picture of the greenhouse and surroundings...

It's a bit of a jungle, with all those tomato plants and a few aubergines in among the chillis. We've got them all along the back of the house too.

The guajillo chillis are coming along nicely...

You might be able to make out a few fruits in the picture, if you expand it by clicking on it.

We also have fruits on the Fiesta, Habanero Orange, Chinese 5 Colour, Tokyo Hot and Medusa plants, but not yet on the Fatalli or Black Pearls. The Medusa chillis do look strange...

You can see how they got their name.

1 comment:

thechileman said...

Hi John,

Ive just stumbled across your blog and I must say your done an excellent job.

How did your Chinese 5 colour turn out?
I grew out some seed but they look nothing like the are supposed to.

Like you, Im a bit of a chillihead and have grow out about 90 varieties this year. You can find my blog & web site here:

http://thechileman.blogspot.com/

and

http://www.thechileman.org/

Maybe we can trade some seeds at the end of the season

All the best

Mark