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Yikes! That's one hot peppa...
5/8/2016 | djf

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!


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1 posted on 05/08/2016 12:33:43 PM PDT by djf
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Do not plant them too close to the house as I’ve heard they can crack or eat away at the foundation.


2 posted on 05/08/2016 12:36:09 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: djf

Wrong..... Carolina Reaper.


3 posted on 05/08/2016 12:36:23 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools. Go Trump!)
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To: djf

https://www.google.com/?client=ubuntu#channel=fs&q=Carolina+Reaper

Enjoy


4 posted on 05/08/2016 12:37:36 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools. Go Trump!)
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To: headstamp 2

Pepper plants will eat away at the foundation?
I seem to recall them as rooting in shallow ground. Maybe different peppers will burrow deep.


5 posted on 05/08/2016 12:38:39 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: djf

HA! Gringo mouth!


6 posted on 05/08/2016 12:39:53 PM PDT by eastforker (The only time you can be satisfied is when your all Trump.)
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To: lee martell

Just a little levity to break the monotony.

(grin)


7 posted on 05/08/2016 12:40:11 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget :" Wrong..... Carolina Reaper."

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).

8 posted on 05/08/2016 12:42:00 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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Learning experiences ...

They’ll help keep tomato hornworms away from your other vegetables.


9 posted on 05/08/2016 12:44:49 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("We like us the way we are. That makes us real, true friends." ~ The Undead Thread)
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To: djf
Put a warning sign or barbed wire fence around them? Something?

Why take any chances................just lay a field of Claymores........

10 posted on 05/08/2016 12:45:52 PM PDT by varon (There's always room for one more on the hanging tree.....)
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Don’t touch the pepper. Don’t let kids touch the pepper.

No kidding.


11 posted on 05/08/2016 12:46:24 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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Dont touch your privates after touching one. I speak from experience. It was a worse day for me than Ryan is having.


12 posted on 05/08/2016 12:48:19 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools. Go Trump!)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

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.


13 posted on 05/08/2016 12:48:29 PM PDT by oldasrocks (They should lock all of you up and only let out us properly medicated people.)
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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.


14 posted on 05/08/2016 12:50:12 PM PDT by antidisestablishment (If those who defend our freedom do not know liberty, none of us will have either.)
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To: Talisker

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!!

;-)


15 posted on 05/08/2016 12:50:17 PM PDT by djf ("She wore a raspberry beret, the kind you find in a second hand store..." - Prince)
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Don’t ever drip pepper juice on toilet paper in questionable public places.

That is just mean and makes people sad.


16 posted on 05/08/2016 12:52:47 PM PDT by humblegunner (NOW with even more AWESOMENESS)
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To: djf; greeneyes

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!


17 posted on 05/08/2016 12:53:59 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: djf

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.


18 posted on 05/08/2016 12:54:02 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

If you scratch your eye, you will quickly realize you’re alive


19 posted on 05/08/2016 12:54:15 PM PDT by gasport (Live and Let Live)
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To: headstamp 2

Oh! The light finally went on in my head.
“That’s a joke, Son!”


20 posted on 05/08/2016 12:54:37 PM PDT by lee martell
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