How to grow green chili plants for spice and life:
Green chilies have life giving antioxidants substances called capsaicin that can avoid cancer. Green chilies can add spice to any dish be it Indian, American or any other. In India, food is incomplete without adding spice to it and nothing better than green chilies. In depressing winter weather chilies can add warmth and life. Many Indian dishes add green chilies for adding flavor to it and with right quantity it makes the dishes healthier and tastier. In winter green chilies can add warmth to hotly prepared meals, be it vegetable soups like vegetarian lentils,vegetable curries or even vegetarian baked beans. It can also be used to make coriander and coconut chutneys which have green chilies in them that adds flavor to chutneys which then can consumed along with your meals. Green chilies in chutneys which can be added to different vegetarian foods are good for cancer.
Green chilies are of many varieties but some of the popular varieties of green chilies are Jwala, Teja and lavangi.
You can grow chilies in containers/pots be it a ceramic container or plastic container, choose the right container and right size. Green chilies thrive in warm/hot weather. You can choose a good organic potting soil for your chili plant. You can add support for the chili plants in the initial stages before it grows big, it will help become strong. While growing, you can prune it few times, it will help it's growth and ultimately help developing flowers and fruits.
Some of the common remedies for your green chili plants:
Banana peel powder is a good fertilizer and helps is producing bountiful flowers and tasty chilies. Chilies can be harvested early and fresh if you want them to be mild. If you keep them longer on the plant, then it makes them more spicier.
Ginger is warming, Indians normally use ginger for making Indian chai and while making this, ginger peels that remain from this can be used for making ginger water for the plants. If the peels from your cooking/tea/chai are too little, you can add more ginger to it for making boiled ginger water. Boil water and ginger for 20 minutes and then let the water cool down for sometime. Once cooled you can use this boiled ginger water for your green chilies. This is a excellent remedy for the plants in winter time when the weather outside is cold. We have seen it has helped the plants to keep producing vegetables/flowers through cooler weather. If you live in a country where the temperatures drops to freezing, it may be a good idea to move the plants indoors and still feed it with boiled ginger water, it may still help producing green chilies through cold temperatures.
Harvesting Green chilies:
Green chilies can be plucked or cut from the plant when chilies become green in color. If you want the chilies to be spicier, you can let them be on the plant in the summer weather for longer time until their color changes to dark green which makes them spicy. Further in few more days they turn red and become spicier. Thus you can harvest green chilies spicier by keeping them longer on the plant.
Thus add green chilies in some form or other to your food, spice up your life and live healthy.
