Naga Chilli Problem

Hi all, I bought a young naga chilli plant from one of my allotment neighbors a few months ago and it seems to have a problem. The plant is producing flowers but when i tried to pollinate them with my little pinky it looks like the flowers are not producing any pollen?

Has anyone else experienced this? Is this plant destined to be compost fodder or will some epsom salts and tomato feed help atall?

Cheers!

i just give the stem a tap (when i remember)some of the super hots are tempremental

You can put your plant outside. We've had some lovely sunny weather, which is just great for chillies, plus the insects get a chance to do their thing. I leave mine out for a bit when we have heavy rain so it can wash the aphids off    You can bring it back in at bed time 

If you're new to growing chillies I'm surprised you've started off with a Naga. Hardly a beginner's chilli 
This can give you some serious heat in the wrong hands 

Look pretty much like the flowers on my cayenne peppers (I've grown others but never examined them that closely!)

The single yellow stalk is the pistil, at the top end of which is the slightly swollen tip (stigma) which collects the pollen.
Surrounding it are the stamens - mine are green but usually dusted yellow with very fine pollen grains (until they shed them of course.)

Tapping the plants from time to time is usually enough to dislodge the pollen enough for the stigma to catch some, although some varieties are possibly better at it than others, and low humidity can make the pollen too dry to stick to the stigma.

I've never had to mist mine with water, but it could help with some of the more awkward customers.

I don't do anything to my chillies to make them fruit other than the usual light watering and feeding.  I do speak to them nicely and spray them with water to dislodge the ruddy aphids    I think you're worrying too much 

I can't think how these are enjoyable. Just having your taste buds destroyed is not really good eating.  I like a chilli to enhance what I'm eating, not blow it out the water   

Perhaps it's a man thing