Posted on 05/08/2016 12:33:43 PM PDT by djf
OK I went to the garden store this morning to load up on even more veggies.
There was one spot where they had a few pepper plants left, so I checked them out and picked the best one.
Little did I know...
Now I had heard in the past about these peppers and thought they were maybe a little hotter than a standard chile pepper.
So now my question is whether to even plant it or not! My neighbors have grandkids and dogs come around once in a while so my question is can I buy insurance or something? Put a warning sign or barbed wire fence around them? Something?
Because they are indeed ghost peppers.
The hottest pepper on Earth!
Do not plant them too close to the house as I’ve heard they can crack or eat away at the foundation.
Wrong..... Carolina Reaper.
Pepper plants will eat away at the foundation?
I seem to recall them as rooting in shallow ground. Maybe different peppers will burrow deep.
HA! Gringo mouth!
Just a little levity to break the monotony.
(grin)
Correct !
Carolina Reaper is hotter, and is known as hottest current pepper !
Hotness is measured in 'scoville units' ( of heat), and the Carolina Reaper is the hottest !(over 2 million scoville units).
Learning experiences ...
They’ll help keep tomato hornworms away from your other vegetables.
Why take any chances................just lay a field of Claymores........
Don’t touch the pepper. Don’t let kids touch the pepper.
No kidding.
Dont touch your privates after touching one. I speak from experience. It was a worse day for me than Ryan is having.
YEP Reapers are hotter by a lot. Ghost, 1,200,000 heat units. Reapers are at 2,400,000. Scoville scale.
For you novices Jalapenos rate at 2,000 heat units.
My wife canned some hot sauce with the Reapers and they are eating through the jar lids.
Ghosts are great in chili.
Don’t worry about dogs or kids— they’ll only mess with them once. Ghost peppers are great. Let them grow til they’re nice and red— they’re sweeter that way.
The other thing I was wondering is I have a whole lot of peppers getting planted.
Should I plant it some distance from the others? I don’t want it like cross-breeding with my normal peppers!
Again I say Yikes!!
;-)
Don’t ever drip pepper juice on toilet paper in questionable public places.
That is just mean and makes people sad.
If you haven’t already done so, check in with the garden thread posted by greeneyes.
There are a LOT of savy gardeners on that thread!
Yeah they’ll cross breed, unless they’re a sterile hybrid. It’s hard to even find a normal habanero anymore, they’re all way hotter than normal through cross breeding.
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Oh! The light finally went on in my head.
“That’s a joke, Son!”
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