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Old 04-21-2023, 04:16 PM   #1
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A few weeks to go and we'll be making our trek north for the summer. One of many things I look forward to is container gardening...focusing my efforts on hot peppers. Once I start getting a harvest, I'll eat them fresh (in very tiny pieces with almost every meal). Last year, I grew cherry hots, cayenne and ghost peppers. Many of the ghost peppers I dried and crushed to make enough hot pepper flakes - delicious - to last me all winter (it only took four plants for that). The cayenne and cherry peppers were ho-hum; tasty but not very hot.

My questions to Forum members: Does anyone out there also like to grow hot peppers? Maybe even the really hot stuff? Do you have any hot pepper gardening secrets? And can you recommend a nursery in the northern Winni towns that sell multiple varieties? Moulton Farms has the Ghost peppers but no other varieties in that league. I'm thinking Trinidad Scorpions, Carolina Reapers, Naga Viper and others with timid names like those.
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Old 04-21-2023, 07:35 PM   #2
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Yup. I love the hots. Mostly grow jalapeño’s. Sometimes habaneros. Ghost and reapers are good but just to hot for a lot of folks so I don’t bothers with them. They claim to put a ring of fresh grass clippings around the plant frequently and it helps make them hotter. Idk if that works as mine are always hot.
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Old 04-23-2023, 08:51 AM   #3
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It’s hard to find a variety of hot peppers out there so I order seeds from Totally Tomatoes and start them indoors. Tons of variety btw.
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Old 04-25-2023, 06:44 AM   #4
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A few weeks to go and we'll be making our trek north for the summer. One of many things I look forward to is container gardening...focusing my efforts on hot peppers. Once I start getting a harvest, I'll eat them fresh (in very tiny pieces with almost every meal). Last year, I grew cherry hots, cayenne and ghost peppers. Many of the ghost peppers I dried and crushed to make enough hot pepper flakes - delicious - to last me all winter (it only took four plants for that). The cayenne and cherry peppers were ho-hum; tasty but not very hot.

My questions to Forum members: Does anyone out there also like to grow hot peppers? Maybe even the really hot stuff? Do you have any hot pepper gardening secrets? And can you recommend a nursery in the northern Winni towns that sell multiple varieties? Moulton Farms has the Ghost peppers but no other varieties in that league. I'm thinking Trinidad Scorpions, Carolina Reapers, Naga Viper and others with timid names like those.

If you're growing Ghost and Reapers you are into the 1-2 million Scoville range. Don't know how you avoid blisters ! I grow 5 different varieties like Hot Portugal, Thai Hot, and Super Chile, for making hot chile oil. These peppers are only in the 50K Scoville range and that's my limit. I grow them in fabric bags very successfully.
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