Love HOT Peppers?

[68ROX]

My family has grown all varieties of peppers since before the Civil War.  Some folks only like the mild ones (Banana) and I love 'em all.

I'm currently growing Habeneros & Jalepenos, some plants are more than 4 years old.

Three Habenero plants (4 years old and over 3 feet high) are so laden down with peppers right now that they are almost tipping over.

Next year:  Tobascos, Cow's Horn get added.

I make my own homemade hot sauces (12 different kinds), and going from plant to bottle in less than 8 hours yields some REALLY tasty sauce.

Anyone else a pepper farmer?

If anyone wants to trade seeds at the end of the season, let me know, and we'll work out a seed exchange.

All types of peppers count!  

Pepperheads of AH, UNITE!

BTW:  Sad to say, but seeds of American origin can only be shipped within the USA, foreign seeds cannot be sent here and American seeds cannot be legally sent to other countries by US postal, USDA, and other federal laws and regulations.


68ROX

[Nilsen]

Red Hot Chili Peppers used to be my favorite.

[68ROX]

You can put Red Hot Chili Peppers in the CD player...


But how about a little "Jalepeno Caribean Sweet Mean Green & Garlic Sauce" on your Lutefisk there Nielsen?

Ya might like it!


68ROX

[Nilsen]

Have to try lutefisk first tho. Not many norwegians have tried it.

[JimBeam]

< loves peppers the hotter the better

[68ROX]

Wouldn't it be nice, Nielsen, If you could drive down to Storgata Circle In Porgrunn and pick up an order of REAL American Chili....and buy a bottle of HOT SAUCE to drown it in?


MMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm



68ROX

[Furball]

Originally posted by 68ROX
My family has grown all varieties of peppers since before the Civil War.  Some folks only like the mild ones (Banana) and I love 'em all.

Holy crap you must all be REALLY old.

[Nilsen]

Originally posted by 68ROX
Wouldn't it be nice, Nielsen, If you could drive down to Storgata Circle In Porgrunn and pick up an order of REAL American Chili....and buy a bottle of HOT SAUCE to drown it in?


MMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm



68ROX

LOL... yup. I can buy some canned crap, but in Oslo there are some places were you can get it

[Dichotomy]

my father in law grows some peppers that I swear you can feel the skin blistering in your mouth if you take a bite of one.

[Dux]

Rox, do you get into the soil science of it at all...? A friend of mine does and insists that an alkali-rich soil makes the peppers even hotter.

[McFarland]

The hottest peppers in the world are wild bird peppers, called so because they are eaten by birds (who are not affected by the hot parts of peppers), and the peppers flavor their meat and predators won't eat them. The hottest in the world is the Wild Desert TepÍn Pepper, which can be found here: Hottest Peppers in World Jamaican Scotch Bonnet are also very hot, they are hotter than Habanero, but they are also a type of Habanero. We grew them in the greenhouse this year. Little hint aboot making hot sauce: Dry yer peppers fer a year, it makes them even hotter. Just put them up on a string on the ceiling, and let them hang fer a year, and they'll get even hotter. If you put one in yer mouth and chew it, yer face will look like this>

[McFarland]

Also, the warmer you keep yer peppers, the hotter they are. If you give them warmer nights than usual, they will turn out hotter.

[Gh0stFT]

not a pepper farmer here, but i like to eat that HOT stuff,
right now testing seasonings from Blair's: Sudden Death and
After Death Sauce, and i like it alot this is really INCREDIBLE HOT.
I especialy like the Habanero taste, blairs have Habanero chips
i dont know any hotter chips on earth! hehe

We grow cucumber and tomatoes in our Garden, not much,
just for our own use. I really would love to try to seed real Habaneros
but i'm not really sure how and where to get them, have to study that a bit.
68ROX you sell your hot sauces ??

R
Gh0stFT

[68ROX]

Originally posted by Dux
Rox, do you get into the soil science of it at all...? A friend of mine does and insists that an alkali-rich soil makes the peppers even hotter.

Definitely!

Not so much "hotter" on the Capsicum Scale...but the plants will THRIVE better.

Hot peppers THRIVE in an alkali soil...the Carribean, Central & South America have this characteristic due to past volcanic ash.

I try and duplicate this by mixing 10-15% wood or charcoal ash into the yard mulch...THEN in goes the Iron tinged Arkansas soil.  Throw a few worms in to do the underground work for you.

I do this in every 5-gallon bucket I plant.

Rocks and sand go into the bottom 10% of the bucket for drainage, and a hole drilled in the side near the bottom for drainage every 4-5".

Bring the bucket inside (a garage will even do if temps do not get below say, 40 F) and within 3 years you will start to have a pepper "tree".

I've seen some get to 6-7'.

Good Luck!

68ROX

Bruce

[68ROX]

Originally posted by McFarland
Also, the warmer you keep yer peppers, the hotter they are. If you give them warmer nights than usual, they will turn out hotter.

Also true.

Some goofy facts about pepper plants:

They put out blooms when daytime temps are LESS than 86 F and no lower at night than 68F.

If it's hotter than that, the plants start dropping blooms and will not put out new ones.  If it's cooler than that, they will not bloom at all.

Regular plant stem and leaf production will continue as normal until nightime temps get cooler than say 50F.

If you have plants in buckets like I do, you have total control over the environment.  

In the Spring, I put my buckets in direct daytime sunlight, and water ONLY when they get "wilty".  By this time of year, I've already gotten the only peppers I will get for the first crop of the year, so I ween the plants into partial shade so they do not stress as much.

"Stressing" them with heat and less water (like New Mexico's climate) will make them slightly "hotter" on the Capsicum Scale of "hot flavor", but only slightly.

By August, when the temperatures are right for my second crop, I only put them back in direct sunlight after the daily normal temp goes below 90F.  The second crop of blooms begin and I get yet ANOTHER crop of peppers off the same plants.

They are ready by Thanksgiving, when I bring them all indoors, where they will "hibernate" (ya do have to water them when they need it) until next Spring.

You are only limited to how many 5 gallon buckets you can safely store indoors for the winter.



And to the poster who said I was OLD, you are right...I'm DIRT's DAD!




68ROX