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nlife

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For starters I would go with Jalapeno, Super Chilli, Cayenne, or any of the common varieties that you can get at the local garden shop. Outside of the superhots chilli plants are pretty easy to grow and really don't need much attention. Get a good draining grow medium - NOTHING that has moisture control added to it. Make sure that when you water you water deep. If you're growing in pots you want run off out the bottom of the container. Then let the plant wilt before you think of watering it again. The leaves should literally be drooping. This kind of stress will produce a nice hot pepper. They're the kind of plant that seems to thrive off of neglect.

Neil
 
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Growstress

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I wholeheartedly disagree with the idea that this type of fruit plant thrive under "neglect". Some species are more adept to thrive in a low water environment, and others absolutely not.
Please see my 6 babies in an ebb & gro with continual nutrition and reliable water. If you want low-maintenance peppers, choose strains that are indigenous to areas that match your soil makeup, average temperature, and accessability to water, ie, rain only or irrigation.

Try standard jalapenos for everyday cooking, salsas, fried, jelly etc.
Large Poblanos are great for adding to vegetables, dishes, stews, rice, they are mild with a bit of a kick enough to flavor anything from drab to fab. I roast one, peel and seed, and add it chopped up to bottled alfredo sauce for a more interesting version of chicken alfredo.
Grow a Cayenne!, stop buying that powdered shit in a can, grow a Cayenne. Dry them and then pulversize them in a blender for your own (better) cayenne. It also has a yellow and orange cultivar.
Cubanelle, the green ones in the stores are the young unriped flavorless babies of the bright ellow and red of a full grown sweet Cubanelle.
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nlife

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I think you may be taking that last line a bit too literally Growstress. By neglect I mean resist the urge to water every time the pot feels a hair light. Chile plants don't like "wet feet" so it's best to let them wilt before the next watering. While you certainly can fertilize all you want, chile plants grow in conditions far less fertile than the ones we provide. If I recall correctly the Chile Pepper Institute at New Mexico State University recommends a balanced fertilizer of around 12-12-12 or something like that and feeding intervals are far less than you would find with something like pot. Again off the top of my head I think it's around 2-3 times throughout the life of the plant.


Compared to the regimented feeding and controlled environment you find that guys around here are producing for their grow, the chile plants are down right "neglected".


Here's a pictures of some Dorset Naga's I grew a few years back. I had a 5 year old Bhut Jolokia and a Trinidad Scorpion that I parted with when I had to move this past year.





7-Pod/ 7-Pot





Trinidad Scorpion





Bishops Crown


 
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nlife

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And to add to the list of things you can do with Chile peppers, try making some ice-cream. I made french vanilla ice-cream with 10 orange habs. I called it Vanihab ice-cream. Real nice flavour to start with, then bam the heat comes in! Not many takers after the first spoon full :lol:
 
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nlife

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I cleaned out my seed bank last year and gave a whole whack to a fellow chile head. I had over 75 different kinds. He had grown some pretty impressive Bhut's in previous years and I'm told he's got a bunch more on the go. If I can get my hands on some more of the super hot seeds I'd be glad to send some your way azryda420.

At the risk of going way off topic, a few hab ice-cream pics


Chopped habs with 8" Shun



Mixing in KitchenAid ice-cream bowl





Scoop of cool icy heat with chocolate drizzled on top. Note the chuncks of hab.


 
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