I love the hottest peppers!

[guest8905]

My plants look good but they won't set fruit. They flower but then they drop off, the only ones that have actual peppers are the Congo Trinidad and the Puriras. :-(

one of my hot peruvian peppers is doing this? It put out 4 fruits, now they just sit there and no more new fruit the past three weeks? Im wondering if I should throw some dr earth bud n bloom inthem to bump up the P and K

 

[exploziv]

yes, that may help. I'm always feeding PK and no N when flowers appear, even double doses to encourage fruit set on my naga jolokias. high N makes them drop all flowers prematurely or just after fruit set.

 

[ShortStackz]

hippie_lettuce, I was planning on making a hot sauce & maybe doing some BBQ jerk chicken with it. Lately I have just been giving some away to friends who want to try it. I did blend in some dried ghost peppers into store bought BBQ sauce. I think I put like 15 dried pods into the mix & forgot to tell one my family members it wasn't regular BBQ, LOL.

zachrockbadenof, thanks man. Goodluck with yours.

ObtuseRabbit, the ones I posted are Butch T which is a Trinidad Scorpion. I still have yet to try fresh Ghost peppers yet because my Ghost plant is barely setting fruit. But to compare Butch T to some really hot thai chili I have growing also this thing hits hard. I actually ate a tiny red one about the size of nickel. That shit had me watery eyes & mouth on fire for like 10 mins. It really just lingers.

KGB47, are you still giving it ferts? Try just straight tap water for a while. All my flowers would drop until I started giving just tap water with fert every now & then.

 

[KGB47]

yes, that may help. I'm always feeding PK and no N when flowers appear, even double doses to encourage fruit set on my naga jolokias. high N makes them drop all flowers prematurely or just after fruit set.

This is good stuff, i'll hit it with the beastybloom when i see the flowers.

 

[KGB47]

KGB47, are you still giving it ferts? Try just straight tap water for a while. All my flowers would drop until I started giving just tap water with fert every now & then.

Nope just strait water but it's been brutally hot here this year so i'm watering about every other day. When they were little i fed them growbig twice a week but nothing since.

 

[bonecarver_OG]

i feed all my chiles with 10-15-15 mineral nutes for sweet peppers (its what they use in the greenhouses for the comercial crops down here) at ph 6.5 and it works too damn good. all the extra P and K is keeping the bushes loaded with chiles. i use about a teaspoon for every 250 liters. the more fast growing baccatums and rocotos i give them a teaspoon for every 50 liters a few times a week.

i use only phosphoric acid for ph-down. the peppers prefeer that..

 

[zachrockbadenof]

the question of the day... i luv Shishito Peppers... get em all the time at our local eateries... usually every 6 or 7 is mildly hot... are the hot ones from the same plant ?? ie... does the plant produce some hot, and some not??..thanks

 

[exploziv]

I have no experience with Shishito peppers, but I do know that some varieties of sweet peppers can give you some peppers that are mildly hot, usually when stressed or over-ripe.
the same happens with mildly hot varieties, you can find a hotter one from time to time.
this variations are usually bred out of the comercial varieties, because no one would want a hot bell pepper, even if it happens just once in a while.

hope this helps.

 

[zachrockbadenof]

thanks... i googled it and it seems the hot/sweet are from the same plant...

 

[zachrockbadenof]

i have a number of ghost peppers growing/flowering nicely- these 2 are in pots side by side, i believe are seeds out of the same pack, but sure look different

 

[exploziv]

the ones in the second pics look more like they should. congrats, seems like you'll soon have a very hot harvest.

 

[zachrockbadenof]

the ones in the second pics look more like they should. congrats, seems like you'll soon have a very hot harvest.

any idea what pepper is in the 1st pic??...i have picked 1/2dozen red ones already... n they are HOTT... have not picked any from the 2nd pic as still green...

 

[exploziv]

could be another cross related to the naga. maybe dorset naga? dunno..
usually, the bhut jolokia takes about 3 monts from pollination to harvest. How long it took for those to get red?

 

[Growcephus]

I'm trying my hand at some super hots as well.

Never grown em' before, or anything else for that matter , so the learning curve is...ahem....kind of steep.

This first plant is "supposed" (<---key word) to be a ghost pepper. One of the dudes at a local hydro shop gave me a pepper, and I attempted to germ the seeds. Fortunately, they took, and 4 of 6 seeds actually sprouted.

"Bhut / mystery pepper"

She's doing O.K., and is just starting to produce some little buds 85 days after emergence from the rooter. She WAS outside but between the high temps and the crazy ass wind, I opted to bring her indoors. Not the best environment, but she's still growing, so...

I've got her in a coco hempy and am using dyna gro nutes, and I have 3 others in straight coco in smaller pots using DTW. I've read that bhuts were "supposed" to be hard to grow, but these have actually been fairly laid back and not fussy at all.

Here's one of my Habenero plants in another coco hempy. She's got 3 Habenero peppers on, but you can only see 2 in the pic.

Yea.....I know.



The seeds came straight out of a burpee orange habenero seed pack. Go figure.

When the first of the three started growing a pepper, I was like "WTF kind of g'damn habenero is THAT!?" Didn't take long before it was obviously NOT a habenero, and I BELIEVE that it's a hungarian wax.

Which pissed me the fuck off immensely! I wanted some damn HEAT!!!

Rather than killing them I let them grow and am glad I did because the peppers are actually pretty damn tasty, and on par with a good spicy jalapeno pepper. Not bad at all.

The hungarians have been far more bitchy about their conditions than have the bhuts though.

My next batch of peppers will be some hybrid habs and scorps I got out of peppers from the hydro store, and I plan on growing them along with my next cannabis batch.

Cheers.

 

[zachrockbadenof]

could be another cross related to the naga. maybe dorset naga? dunno..
usually, the bhut jolokia takes about 3 monts from pollination to harvest. How long it took for those to get red?

i planted the seeds at the end of march, sprouted in late april, transplanted em into their large pots in mid may, so it's been 80+ days for em to turn red.

i also planted some trinidad scop's, but none sprouted the 1st go-around so re-sowed some in mid june, outside in my mini-tabletop greenhouse, and 1/2 dozen were up between 10-20days.. now in pots, but doubt whether we have enough time left for fruit...

 

[Canniwhatsis]

@ Growcephus;

That's not a hungarian wax,... hungarian wax grow an upright pod, more slender and narrow than what I see in those pics..... at least if my seeds were the correct seeds anyway.

My pods were also more yellow than that when growing in, rather than pale green.


Not a bad pepper for eating raw or pickling.... but don't try to roast em, flesh is too thin and the skin won't separate.

 

[hippie_lettuce]

i planted the seeds at the end of march, sprouted in late april, transplanted em into their large pots in mid may, so it's been 80+ days for em to turn red.

i also planted some trinidad scop's, but none sprouted the 1st go-around so re-sowed some in mid june, outside in my mini-tabletop greenhouse, and 1/2 dozen were up between 10-20days.. now in pots, but doubt whether we have enough time left for fruit...

I planted my trinidads and bhuts late too and up here in zone 5 I don't have 3 months to spare for them to finish setting fruit. So I'm taking them inside and buying a t5 rack so they can just veg for the winter. I've read that overwintering them can increase the amount of fruit next year. I hope!

 

[zachrockbadenof]

I've read that overwintering them can increase the amount of fruit next year. I hope!

i overwintered last year in my greenhouse room, and yes they seem to produce more fruit... i am already overloaded with cayenne's and small (very hot) thai's... my scorpians have not yet set fruit, so with 45, maybe 60 more days of growing, i doubt i'll see any... but will overwinter these tooo... i'm going to need to extend the greenhouse room...

 

[nvthis]

@ Growcephus;

That's not a hungarian wax,... hungarian wax grow an upright pod, more slender and narrow than what I see in those pics..... at least if my seeds were the correct seeds anyway.

My pods were also more yellow than that when growing in, rather than pale green.


Not a bad pepper for eating raw or pickling.... but don't try to roast em, flesh is too thin and the skin won't separate.

That looks identical to my Gypsies. Same pale greenish color and all.

Still waiting on the ghost to flower. It threw one flower a few weeks ago, then went into a crazy growth spurt..

 

[zachrockbadenof]

hey guys... i am looking to dry and shred my peppers and store em in bottles to use during the year.. how do u guys dry em?? i have tried the needle and thread and hanging em in a sunny window... most of em seem to rot as they dry... have tried drying em on a screen in a sunny window...more of less same results.. have also tried laying em on a baking sheet, and placing it on a bbq at a low heat... a really slow process/pain in the ass.. anyone use a de-hydrator?? and any guidance as to which works well...thanks...