Purple chillies - update

Well, here is the progress of the Bolivian purple chilly plant. I had hoped in my earlier post for the plants to put on good growth this year. Since the start, these chilly plants had borne numerous flowers but almost 80% of them had fallen without fruiting. But since my last post, things have changed drastically. Some blessed bee had done a fantastic job pollinating the flowers and now we have quite a number of purple fruits. It is certainly a pleasing sight to look at them gradually changing colors as they mature.. Have a glance!

We have still not used them in our cooking..there is a good chance that all of these fruits may be left for seed saving. I'll wait and see how it goes.