Who is growing hot peppers this year?
 

I have about 50 butch t Trinidad scorpion crossed with the moruga scorpion pepper plants about 4 inches tall, I started the seeds from ones I saved from last year.
Also i just planted 50 of the Carolina reaper seeds. The “Butch T” measures a whopping 1,463,700 Scoville heat units. Now that's HOT!!@!%!
The reaper are supposed to average a 1,569,300 on the Scoville scale with peak levels of over 2,200,000 Scoville Heat Units (SHU). Mostly I gave a lot of the peppers away to people who like to eat them and saved a few for myself to make pepper flakes.

I ate a quarter of a butch t and thought I would die lol. I did enjoy the burn after the initial heat.

Any other pepper heads out there?? Anyone local who would like a few plants let me know.

Any growing tips to increase the heat??

I already got my order in to chileplants.com Pete. I don't have it down to a literal science like some people do, I just use the standard cow poop in the soil and fertilize with fish and kelp. Six or so superhot plants is all I'm gonna plant, all I need. I will gladly try a couple butch t's. Have you ever been to that festival near Kutztown?

You guys are hardcore!! I do jalapeno and some cayenne but I leave those scorpion peppers alone ever since I tried some sauce with that pepper in it, WOW that's hot. I have found my cayenne to vary in heat depending on the soil PH in my garden. The more acidic soil In one of my raised bed gardens seems to produce hotter peppers. It could be something else like the sun that bed gets but I did notice the PH was much more acidic when I tested it. you make me feel lazy as I am not starting anything from seed this year, I am buying all my peppers as young plants. Tomatoes I might start in the house but the rest of the garden I'm buying at my plant center.

Eating some chili made with Chocolate Habaneros right now. Last season was my first year growing them and will definitely do so again. Have grown numerous super hots in the past and these are probably my favorite so far. Hotter than regular Habs and with a nice smokey flavor which stands up well with food.

I have grown superhots for the past ~5 years. Although I can handle the heat of the Butch T's and Brainstrains, I like the flavor of the Chocolate habs, the yellow Brainstrains and the Moruga Scorpions. I like to dry them and then place the dried pods in the smoker for a few hours. The smoked powder is fantastic. Haven't tried the "Carolina reapers". Once you get above a million scoville units, does it really matter?

I am just a Japoleno and Tabasco fan. The super hots can stay with yuse guys.

Oh crap, I can't even eat sausage w/ much spice in it, let alone anything you fire-eaters desire...:D

I grow Florida Grove Peppers!

OMG, the top of my head sweats when I eat picante sauce at a cheap Mexican restaurant.

I love a jalapeno pepper with my Church's chicken....but a little goes a loooong way.

To increase the heat of the chiles, you need to stress the plants. Once the peppers are ripening, let the plants dry out until they are drooping a bit, then water the hell out of them. Repeated cycles of this stress the plant and make the peppers hotter. That's why peppers grown in the southwest are the hottest.

:jumping:
not jumping, that's fire shooting outta my arse.....

Which church??? :D

You guys are NUTS..........

I have been growing hot peppers for the past 10 years or more. I have grown everything from the cherry to the jalapeno, cayenne to tai dragon, practically all the habs, ghost, scorpion and the reaper.

I slice them up and jar them. Make hot sauce, pepper flakes, hot pepper powder (like chili powder but with hotter peppers). I have smoked peppers and made hot sauce from them.

Love them, can't get enough of them.

Can't stand the taste of store bought anymore since I have been jarring my own, plus I know what is going into the jar.

Good luck on the pepper growing season and keep the flames to a minimum.

Mark

I have been growing pepper plant's for a few years here, actually have a few plants in the ground that are 3 years old. They last the whole year unless we get a good frost which will kill the plant.
What is the secret to growing a good meaty jalapeño?
Mine grow to a decent size but they are thin compared to the ones in the store.

It may be the type of pepper you are growing or that you are picking them too early. Jalapeño peppers vary a lot in heat and size. I fertilize the hell out of mine with manure tea to get maximum yield and size, maybe yours need some more food?
I've grown peppers for 30 years, some do better than others. I save seeds from my best producing plants and have pretty good results.

Thanks
I think I'll get a few more variety of plant's in the ground with some good soil and fertilizer.
Now is prime growing season here. My bell pepper plant's already have a bunch of peppers.

This just in ... new contender for world's hottest pepper "HP56" pushes 3-million Scovilles.

Be sure to watch the video.

>> http://www.kplctv.com/story/28626635...y-twice-as-hot

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Yeap; Jalepenos & red chilis for me. Grow em, Love em, eat em off the plant.

The hotter stuff is not for me. Maybe a habernero mixed into something. But this Topic of 1Mil scovil stuff not for me. a fella would put those in beer ; that's hot.

BTW FWIW; i loath & despise chipotle; causes a sore throat for me.

Ditto.

what is with early jalepenos having NO heat, eat like a bell pepper, then maybe 2 week later they are super hot. Is there a rule to picking jaleponos?
I always pick them green & plump, and they vary in heat.

Theres a couple dozen varieties of jalapenos. I usually buy the jumbo ones to stuff, which aren't as hot as the regulars. Its relay a crapshoot sometimes with them, there are a couple that have no heat at all, just as mild as a bell. If your that crazy about them get the seed stable over years just as Cerebus does. Go to www.chiliplants.com and check them out. You want any jalap to be mild? Eat one ghost, naga, or Trinidad scorpion and youll be poppin jalaps like candy the following week.

Serious question: Are your pepper plants eaten by insects?

Reason is had great Sweet Pepper Plants for years until STINK BUG invasion with the larve and pubescent bright red body w black legs devouring all of the peppers. Used many different Organic and Commercial treatments, powders, Soaps, Sprays and they won the war...bastards still show up to lay eggs at old former plant locations.

Resisted severe chemical treatments as much as possible due it being a food source.

How about your Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Chili's - any bug or parasite issues?

Super, thanks.

Horseradish is also my home-grow, make, & eats.

Jalapenos are funny. I have picked some off the same plant at the same time with different heat levels. Does not seem to correspond to ripeness either. Jalapenos range from very mild, as the Senorita variety, to very hot as the Biker Billy.

I try like heck to avoid using any insecticides that aren't natural but if I am having a real bad time in a certain area I have found Seven Dust to work rather well and you can use up to a week before harvesting and it's even shorter for some plants. I haven't had any problems in the small areas and amounts I have used and it works really well. I try to make sure I get good clean stock when I shop and any organic soil I use I add some type of organic bug juice from our nursery to help in soil nesting insect control. One thing I have learned in the relatively short time I have been gardening(8 years) is that there will almost always be some loss and I try to spread my plants out to four different gardens so if one is hit hard the others will give me the tomatoes, beans, peppers and potatoes my family loves and cans. Good luck with the bugs, they can drive you nuts.

I will try a few Ghost peppers this year along with traditional.., but the dirt is still a couple feet away in most areas...

Alvin, only the peppers are hot. bugs eat the plants just like any other. I have my "mother plant" inside for the second year and I had major aphid problems. im waiting for spring to put it out, the rain helps keep them under control as well as the ladybugs n wasps.

Started about 40 Carolina reaper plants this year too, any PY members local are welcome to a plant or two for free.

Half inch stud--- yes I have horseradish too! I saved the tops from fresh horseradish that I bought and put them in water and in a few weeks I had new sprouts and roots growing. I planted them 2 years ago and this year i finally dug some up I loved it. The new shoots of horseradish are great on salads n stuff, kind of a peppery green.

Yessir, information I gathered locally from our horticulture shop about Stinkbugs is this:
they are in what is known as the "piercing class" because they use the sharp edges of their adult legs to pierce the peppers and deposit their egg larve which then feeds on the pepper "fruit" plant...thousands of them devastated our excellent plants...and they are still showing up to this very day even though no peppers etc. have been provided for them to feed on. :mad:

Found a few of them in our wild cactus "alligator plants" yesterday :rant:

:focus: having been born and lived 1st 6yrs of my life in Albuquerque, you could say I've experienced a hot pepper or two.
As an adult traveling in and around same area - Seems like green Chili's are used in most all New Mexico dishes - including breakfast. You have to specifically place orders excluding them there if you don't want Chili's.

As a kid my mom and our neighbors raised the long red & green peppers and would put them on the outside cloths lines to dry them out in the sun. Some of those would be ground up for use in shaker topings like often seen on Pizzas' etc.

Thxs for reminding me of the Great pepper memories including fried green tomatoes and home-made flour & corn tortilla's slathered with butter is what we kids had during summers playing Cowboys & Indians outdoors. :thumbup:

Neem oil. Have you tried it? All natural and has worked for me in the past. Aphid explosion after moving inside being one of them.

[edit] .... met some friends at the pub last night for some live music. Got myself some old bay wings then broke out my little pocket shaker loaded with various dried peppers to up the heat. A couple people tried it and loved the flavor. They were skeptical at first knowing how I grow hots. Ended up giving the remainder away.

I tried to send you a pm Pete. I'll try a plant or two.

Think I did use Neem Oil, but will have to give it another go, we had severe drought in 2011 that exacerbated the plant stress and allowed infestation to take hold. Aphids were ample then too. I even tried tobacco, liquid soap, etc. to no avail. Thxs!
:focus:

I washed mine off in the shower every day for a week that got it under control. just be sure you tilt the plant so the washed off aphide don't land in the soil, pain in the ass.

I do the firecrackers, not sure the scientific name. My buddy Manny the Mexican got me started on them.

I used to grow green peppers, red peppers, sport peppers and habañeros up to about 10 years ago. I gave up because our Northern Illinois growing season has become too short. Peppers seem to do best with long summers with hot weather and we just haven't had it in recent years. The cool and damp weather causes blossom end-rot disease and you get very few peppers.

Cannot speak for your growing seasons. Blossom end rot is usually caused by a Calcium deficiency. Supplement the soil with bone meal or ground egg shells.

I have a few of each pepper left if anyone local to me (Bucks county pa) wants one, not sure if the pms are working here or not

Since it is "National Hot Dog Day" I decided to enjoy the first Ghost from my garden this season appropriately. Easy to see why these peppers were used as Elephant repellant. :eek:

My plants peaked production about 2 months ago. Now they don't produce again till September or October

Gypsy Sweet peppers and bell peppers..
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Can't seem to rid the stink bugs, again this year...young ones bright red orange bodies w black legs :gag:

Plus this years record rain and cool temps last 2 months.
First 5 days of no rain and garden still to wet to hoe or till. Most of my beans, peppers, and tomato's are rotting.
Only thing do'n well is cucumbers and zuccihini.