I love the hottest peppers!

[Teddy KnowHow]

anyway - its not much to argue about people that want to can pay more for less at fatalii and the rest can use other webshops

Yes that is true. However, after paying for 20-90 euros for a ten pack of canna seeds I don't feel like complaining I'm trying to source some carnivorous plant seeds right now, Pitcher plant Nepenthes and Venus Fly Trap. Those seeds are a bit expensive too.

the south spanish season for comercially growing chilies is actually during the winter, but the ppl growing for their own use down here grow during the summer... i could go on for ever about agricultural info but in the end it costs (water is expensive
!) more to grow chilis in optimum conditions during the summer here (up to 45ºC!) while during winter the temps are perfect in greenhouses, but this year most of my chilis are growing well outside without the aid of a greenhouse. but also this year the greenhouse grown sweetpeppers are some of the biggest and fattest i ever seen. mild winters really makes a difference..hope this trend continues im for global heating ! hehe

hehe yeah i live in spain i feel so sadistic to say it now during winter hehe but its damn nice to live here +25ºC days in december and january is not really that bad hey we havent even had frost yet this winter at all.

i spent a while picking chilies today. a whole bunch of bubbas and some other stuff, including cayennes and incaberries. i gotto spark up the smoker in a bit..

im going to plant more seeds tomorow of the varieties i got left. im gonna plant more baccatums since they really are nice producers. but also a lot of other stuff. if this year is as hot as last i gotto make a drip irigation system. watering 600-700 liters with buckets each day is not that fun in 45+cº temps! hehe i rather zip on a mojito in the shade

i think im going to plant of the seeds i picked out last year too. hopefully with some luck (i wish! hehe) i might find some unwanted hybrids so much fun!

peace all

Haha, I didn't realize it got so hot down there. If my gardening hobby gets out of hand, like it sure seems it will, maybe I'll have to relocate to a warmer climate too weather forecast for this week, -25C, windy darkness I have to have my sprouting seeds right next to a radiator in order to maintain steady 28C temps.

Interesting info by the way about commercial growers growing in greenhouses during winter. I just bought some ramiro sweet peppers grown in spain and they truly are huge. Much bigger than their dutch equivalents.

And show us some pics of your harvests!

 

[Teddy KnowHow]

While I envy the temps you've got right now,... no way in hell I'd be out gardening in 113*f temps come summer time!

My SuperChili plants are starting to produce under 24/0 T5 lighting,... tho the thai and kung pao aren't flowering yet. I need to move them anyway, i'm out of ceiling (under my table) height and they're burning on the light.

What are SuperChili plants? I'm also going to put my seedlings under T5 lightning soon, I also have a NFT table planned for my biggest baccatums. Gotta get that powder!

One of the most interesting plants this year for me is Limo Chinense from a trusted hobby grower. It should be close to Lemon Drop in taste but with a Chinense kick! Can't wait..

 

[Canniwhatsis]

Some random hybrid, similar to a thai, but larger and not quite as hot. I collected a couple pods off of some plants I tripped across at work last summer, so I'm just hoping they're not pollenated by something really lame.

 

[KGB47]

Due to my inability to sprout any kind of hot pepper seeds I've found a website that will ship live starter plants to my location when the temps are just right. I'm planning quite an assortment of blistering chilies, I'm hoping all the plants will be viable when they arrive. This year's lineup consists of:

2 Bhut Jolokia
2 Fatali
2 7-Pot
2 Trinidad Scorpion
2 Red Congo Trinidads
2 Purira*
2 Red Savina Habanero
2 Naga Morich

* If you haven't tried these you must, they have a wonderful flavor and make exceptional hot sauces when mixed with a hotter pepper.

 

[s13sr20det]

http://www.chileplants.com/

 

[KGB47]

http://www.chileplants.com/

Why, yes it is them! I hope they're legitimate, have you had any dealings with them?

 

[Teddy KnowHow]

Due to my inability to sprout any kind of hot pepper seeds I've found a website that will ship live starter plants to my location when the temps are just right. I'm planning quite an assortment of blistering chilies, I'm hoping all the plants will be viable when they arrive. This year's lineup consists of:

2 Bhut Jolokia
2 Fatali
2 7-Pot
2 Trinidad Scorpion
2 Red Congo Trinidads
2 Purira*
2 Red Savina Habanero
2 Naga Morich

* If you haven't tried these you must, they have a wonderful flavor and make exceptional hot sauces when mixed with a hotter pepper.

Haha, looks like you like your chiles HOT Apparently most of those varieties take their time sprouting, but I've had 75%-100% success with most varieties using rockwool cubes. I prepare them the same way as I prepare rockwool cubes to be used with canna plants, soak in 5.8 pH water overnight, shake the excess water out and plant. I usually plant 5 seeds per cube and after a week or so after sprouting choose the best one and kill the rest. Usually they all look alike so I just choose the one in the middle for symmetrical reasons

They get only water for the first week, sometimes I give them a bit of root booster.

And thanks for the Purira tip, hadn't heard of it earlier. I read about it and maybe I'll have to order some. Many sources claim it's really early flowering so it would be perfect for my conditions.

Do you actually enjoy eating Trinidad Scorpions and 7 Pods? I have some Naga Morich just for fun, I think I like the taste but the burn is really infernal. It's not LIKE pain, it's 100% pain Also some of my Savinas really kicked my ass last year, there was quite a bit of variance between the peppers and when I wasn't careful it got me haha. Awesome plants!

 

[KGB47]

Haha, looks like you like your chiles HOT Apparently most of those varieties take their time sprouting, but I've had 75%-100% success with most varieties using rockwool cubes. I prepare them the same way as I prepare rockwool cubes to be used with canna plants, soak in 5.8 pH water overnight, shake the excess water out and plant. I usually plant 5 seeds per cube and after a week or so after sprouting choose the best one and kill the rest. Usually they all look alike so I just choose the one in the middle for symmetrical reasons

They get only water for the first week, sometimes I give them a bit of root booster.

And thanks for the Purira tip, hadn't heard of it earlier. I read about it and maybe I'll have to order some. Many sources claim it's really early flowering so it would be perfect for my conditions.

Do you actually enjoy eating Trinidad Scorpions and 7 Pods? I have some Naga Morich just for fun, I think I like the taste but the burn is really infernal. It's not LIKE pain, it's 100% pain Also some of my Savinas really kicked my ass last year, there was quite a bit of variance between the peppers and when I wasn't careful it got me haha. Awesome plants!

Actually I do enjoy the hottest peppers, I make Hot Sauces and marinades out of them, I've even pickled the Puriras with carrots and olives in a great brine.. I have, in fact, never tried the Scorpions and 7-Pots but I look forward to whipping up some wickedly hot stuff with them and those that i don't use I'll take down to the farmers market and vend.

 

[s13sr20det]

i havent ordered from them, but ive read of people that have and i first learned about them in the chile pepper book. i bet you'll get some awesome plants. i was looking through there and saw a few i would like to get myself.

 

[bonecarver_OG]

Interesting info by the way about commercial growers growing in greenhouses during winter. I just bought some ramiro sweet peppers grown in spain and they truly are huge. Much bigger than their dutch equivalents.

And show us some pics of your harvests!

yeah man they really do know how to grow veggies here. almost all peppers are soil grown, but with agronomical engineers touching up the available nutrient profile to adjust it to get it perfect. not much is done with the soil it self, but rather its a well adjusted nutrient regime to compliment what allready is in the soil. the spanish soil is old seabottom and has a LOT of minerals.

the dutch grow in hydroponics - but when it comes to veggies - nothing can beat real soil, and sun...

anyhow - one pic from a few months back. cant find any fresh pics atm. i got some pics of the lot of dried chilis in sacks, but maybe that is not as interesting?


left top - pimiento de piqiullo (not hot, but a ancient, maybe one of the first sweet peppers to be grown outside southamerica.)
left bottom - cayennes
middle - incaberry
rigth top - guindilla de navarra
rigth bottom - pimiento de padron (pretty darn hot and most likelly related to the first chilis ever brought outside southamerica, mentioned over 400 years ago in texts)

anyway this is just a pic of one day of picking. during peak season they had to get picked every 2 days - but now its enough to pick the mature ones once a week.

 

[GP73LPC]

nice

 

[bonecarver_OG]

some dried, smoked and fresh chilies.

 

[GP73LPC]

wow, nice... you do love some peppers !!!!

 

[Easygrowing]

really strong-plant buyed in a store,so not from seed..1 of them into a dinner and you can taste it,s prickle on the toungh...

Yes can we soon get spring-so we can came in the dirt and so thanks..

Nice plants you are doing around.Should be an "Pepperoni" started in many colors-Yellow-Orange and strong Red and also white and in the end mostly Purple..

 

[Canniwhatsis]

Very happy looking Habanero there!



Bone,.... OMFG!!!!!!!! That looks soo tasty! Nicely done!

 

[Al Botross]

look at this fool -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1KvLOZuvxc&feature=player_embedded

 

[Krull]

some dried, smoked and fresh chilies.

You're a spice terrorist bro



=K

 

[Canniwhatsis]

look at this fool -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1KvLOZuvxc&feature=player_embedded

 

[s13sr20det]

2 million scovilles

http://iloveitspicy.com/2012/02/07/new-record-holder-the-moruga-scorpion-pepper/

 

[supherbb]

Wow this thread is inspirational! I'm doing my first vegetable garden ever this year. Looking at my yard I think I have at least 20' x 20' to work with. If it were me I'd dedictae the whole thing to jalapeno, habanero, and hotter varieties but I know my lady would freak haha. She wants tomatoes, garlic, cucumbers, stuff like that. I'm hoping 20x20 is enough space to accomoadte for her and still get a chili stash like bonecarver_OG's.