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First Harvest

First harvest on a wooden board: green Scotch Bonnets, a pile of small red bird's eye chillies, long red cayennes, pale yellow pods and two dark green Poblanos

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First harvest off the towers, the point where five months of building finally turned into chillies in a bowl. Bird’s eye and Thai types, cayennes, Scotch Bonnets just starting to turn, Poblanos still dark green on the vine and not ready yet. Snapped a branch of the habaneros off accidentally so they’re still too green.

First harvest on a wooden board: green Scotch Bonnets, a pile of small red bird's eye chillies, long red cayennes, pale yellow pods and two dark green Poblanos
The first harvest, 23 August 2026.

Some plants were loaded, others barely producing anything, which turned out to be normal, mixed varieties in different tower positions establish at different rates. The season runs through November, so the slow ones should have time to catch up.

Two long pale green pods hanging on the plant
Still on the plant, 23 August.
A dark green Poblano on the plant
A Poblano, still dark green.

This was the harvest that mattered most, not because it was the biggest (it wasn’t, by a long way), but because it was the first real reward after months of grind.

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