Chili (phrik khi nu suan)

My Garden mouse-dropping chilis are doing well, and we have harvested several times for some weeks now. The oldest of the plants are just about two meters high, and look very healthy and happy.

Lots of green chilis on the plants.
Just a few more days and they will start to turn red.

These ones are ready for harvesting.

Even though all the plants is made from seeds from 3 red chilis, this single plant produces white/yellow chilis.

Garden mouse-dropping chili

Garden mouse-dropping chili flowers.

Garden mouse-dropping chili is a cultivar of the species Capsicum annuum. It measures around 50,000–100,000 SHU, and is the smallest and hottest of the five main chilis generally used in Thai food. In Thai it is called พริกขี่หนูสวน (phrik khee nuu suaan).

Support made from bamboo and nylon wire.

I have started to grow this plant from seeds taken from chilis bought at the local market. So far I have 81 plants and several more seedlings ready for planting, when I get the soil prepared. Within the last week the oldest plants are starting to flower.
We are just entering the rainy season, and have had our first big thunderstorms, that was a little hard on the largest of the plants. The chilis survived but the plants was growing in a 45 degree angel in the morning. I'm not sure they will survive the heavier thunderstorms that will come, so I am starting to build supports for the plants. It's pretty simple with a bamboo pole in each end of the rows, and some smaller bamboo cuttings to hold the poles in place. Between the poles there's two strings of nylon wire - one on each side of the plants.

Now it's just to wait and then hopefully harvest lots of tiny spicy chilis.