Ripe tabasco chilli - 2mm long!

My indoor cayenne pepper plant is producing a decent crop this year, although not as good as last year for some reason despite being grown in essentially identical conditions.

Next to it in the trough is a tabasco pepper plant, which has always looked a bit spindly by comparison, has lost a few leaves and dropped a lot of flowers. There are a few though which must have set a couple of months ago but are still small and pale green.

There is one ripe, red one, however, but it is only about 2mm x 1mm (I kid you not!) !!! 

If it was any other sort of plant I would have given it a lot more feed; are these particularly difficult chillies to grow?

First year growing chillis and iv got jalepeno and tabasco growing!!Ive got around 30-40 jalepenos on the one plant but a few of those chillis are only about 5mm long and have turned red when i open one there are no seeds in  :blink:

Glad you've had some success with your cayenne Fisherman! 

No response at all about growing tabasco then; I'm almost certain I've seen a few folk mentioning them here this year (perhaps they're either too ashamed to mention them or are frightened of boasting!!) 

I'm not sure why I grow and then eat Cayenne peppers / chillies as I break out into a serious hot sweat to the point of nearly passing out. I guess I must be semi alergic to them. The thing is I can't resist eating them which is kind of weird. God only knows what I would be like if I ate a Tabasco, Scotch Bonnet or a Birds Eye. I'm even breaking out into a sweat thinking about it.

If my 2mm X 1mm tabasco chilli is all I'm going to get I hope I can find a recipe which doesn't require it to be chopped finely first!     

I planted all my peppers and chillis in february, they certainly try ones patience most have now come to fruit except Fatalii which are painfully slow growing no fruit as yet. next year i am going to build a 2m x1m propagator and give them a good start in life, which is more than i ever had. :blink:   

petite but well formed