Hot Peppers?

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Olstinker

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Anyone else love growing hot peppers? I like to make hot sauce with them, also using them in pickled eggs.
 
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thepodpiper

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I am definetly into growing hot peppers. It started out researching the internet to find something other than Jalapenos and Habaneros to grow in my garden and the rest is history. I have over 1,000 varieties of pepper seeds and usually put about 150 to 200 pepper plants in my garden every year. One year i had over 350 varieties in the garden. It is a hobby gone addiction and now I sell plants in the spring (tomato and pepper plants). i actually have my own line of pepper spices that I sell also. Tomatoes are just as addicting. There are some pics of my garden in the link below. I am also addicted to seed trading.

http://s117.photobucket.com/albums/o65/thepodpiper/

Dale
 
pickle8

pickle8

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I love growing peppers. Planning on about 7-10 different varieties this year. Check out tomatogrowers.com They have a huge selection of pepper and tomato seeds.
 
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thepodpiper said:
I am definetly into growing hot peppers. It started out researching the internet to find something other than Jalapenos and Habaneros to grow in my garden and the rest is history. I have over 1,000 varieties of pepper seeds and usually put about 150 to 200 pepper plants in my garden every year. One year i had over 350 varieties in the garden. It is a hobby gone addiction and now I sell plants in the spring (tomato and pepper plants). i actually have my own line of pepper spices that I sell also. Tomatoes are just as addicting. There are some pics of my garden in the link below. I am also addicted to seed trading.

http://s117.photobucket.com/albums/o65/thepodpiper/

Dale
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sounds like you and I would get along great.... I've nothing really to trade atm except some 'peter pepper' seeds, but would love to know what kind of exotic/heirlooms you have..... :D
Dizzle Frost said:
i wanan grow some exotic peppers, like ghost chillis and habenros.....i cant find seeds for em
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check out "pepper joe" (.com), the prices are alot steeper than they should be, but he has a great selection, gauranteed he's got those, and several types.
 
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Wishbuilder

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hey man your trip with the peppers sounds cool some one is bringing me some pepper clone of the ghost pepper plant and some thing called trinidanian scorpian peppers, have you heard of them ? and how hot are they. i was told that i could not handle then with bare skin that they would blister my skin because of the oils it secretes from its skin .....is that correct. thanks ...................Peace Wishbuilder
 
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thepodpiper

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Actually there is no external capsaicin on any pepper. So you can handle all of them regardless of there potency. There has to be an opening in the skin of the fruit for you to feel the heat.

The Trinidad Scorpion is a million scovilles. The 7-Pot and the Naga Morich are also 1 million scovilles. And there are many strains of these peppers now and they are all hot as hell. There is a chocolate and a Yellow Bhut Jolokia and the ones i mentioned above come in the same colors. The 7-Pot Brain Strain is just as unique as the Bhut Jolokia and real close to the same heat. I offered up some seeds of some of these varieties but people are kind of paranoid with their addresses I guess. (it's understandable).

Dale

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Wishbuilder

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Hey thanks chad i will keep that in mind,do you think that the plant might be to hot for unsupervised public handeling,which may result in a lawsuit if you were say a store owner with it on display growing within public access......thanks ..................................Wishbuilder
 
gogrow

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I feel like there needs to be a new system for gauging pepper strengths.... there is more to a chili than just heat... which is why I've not grown out any of these 'naga', 'jolikia' or 'ghost' chilis..... I jumped on years ago when the habanero's became popular as the "hottest pepper in the world", and found that the little bit of flavor you can pull out of them is akin to that of a burnt chuck of wood, and that they are too damn hot to use for most applications for most people..... so I've never tried any of the newer "hottest" peppers....

My grandfather introduced me to peppers, and gardening in general, and up until about 4yrs ago, he was keeping some unknown varieties of 'bird peppers' that he had been keeping going/crossbreeding with some "cockspurs" ('tabascos', before mchilinhey came around and TM them)..... and I will swear up and down that these peppers were much worse than a habanero when eaten raw, but were MUCH tastier when cooked into food, without making the food too hot to feed to the dogs....

I'm trying this year to go on a seed hunt for some of the less known hot peppers, and alot of the mild-medium heat peppers to balance everything out.
 
jimmy jones

jimmy jones

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I'm trying a new hot pepper this year called "chinese 5 color". Supposed to be pretty hot. Plus they look neat, 5 different color peppers on one plant.
 
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jimmy jones said:
I'm trying a new hot pepper this year called "chinese 5 color". Supposed to be pretty hot. Plus they look neat, 5 different color peppers on one plant.
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If it's what I'm thinking of, then you'd be rather impressed with the 'cockspur' or 'tabasco' varieties as well..... prolific, upright fruits on massive bushes.... you'll have 200 peppers on one bush at different rates of maturity, making greens, yellows, oranges and reds, and all shades in between...... really pretty.
 
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thepodpiper

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You won't find the taste of the 5-color to be all that good but it is an awesome looking plant. It grows tall and slender, not bushy at all so you don't have to worry too much about spacing.

Dale
 
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