You're gonna need a bigger bottle.
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!
“Don’t touch the pepper. Don’t let kids touch the pepper.
No kidding.”
They’ll only do it once.
You should hear the story I just sent Gunner on private mail.
And it's true. Every word.
You're gonna need a bigger bottle.
Kind of like standing next to a 5 megaton bomb or a 10 megaton bomb. The results are the same.
Don’t grow hot peppers near any mild or sweet pepper. I had a relative years ago who grew some nice Banana peppers. His neighbor grew some nice Cayenne next door, 20 feet away. First banana pepper ripe, he took it inside for dinner...boy was he in for a surprise. Hot as it can be and he couldn’t handle hot...from then on he and his neighbor agreed to grow peppers on opposite sides of their houses, not facing each other 20 feet apart so they could watch them grow and talk gardening...
Also don’t grow cucumbers close to Cantaloupes. Neither is hot but just the smell of Cucumbers makes me nauseated, and my Cantaloupes that year tasted like cucumbers. I had to throw away some of the nicest Cantaloupes you ever saw...
Don’t remember who posted it, but hot peppers have no affect on Tomatoes, I’ve tried to grow hot Tomatoes for years, never even got a warm one.
I normally grow Tabasco, Habanero and a few Long John Cayenne, all fairly close to each other, and tomatoes a few feet away. Both Roma and Cherry tomatoes, never got one even warm, much less hot. The entire garden patch is about 15 feet by 20 feet. Added some Thai peppers this year, haven’t had those in years, my seeds decided to give up after 5 or 6 years of the same strain, originally from Thailand.
If they are pickled in jars, use plastic lids, The vinegar will eat metal lids in a year or less. I doubt the peppers have much to do with it, but the vinegar used is very corrosive. I may be wrong...
I dry both Tabasco and Habanero in a dehydrator and chop them to powder in a blender, use them same as black pepper, which I almost never touch. I love Habanero done this way, it’s actually mellower than Tabasco, which still has a lot of bite when dried, but the Habanero has a better flavor.
I gave up Jalapenos years ago, I don’t like the afterburners the next day. Trips to the restroom were not fun...Almost gave up peppers entirely, then discovered Cayenne never does that.
Always let all hot peppers ripen on the plant before picking, they have a much sweeter taste. Cayenne is my favorite in that respect, Tabasco is not as sweet. Habanero is just plain HOT...I can only eat it in small slices. Or dried and powdered. Don’t think I’ll ever touch a ghost pepper...and I love hot...
Great advice!
Thanks!
Carolina Reaper? Meh. Many say (Fatalii Gourmet) Jigsaw will be the new champion as soon as testing is complete. Do NOT confuse with ornamental pepper also named Jigsaw. I grew these last year, and I have a few dozen Jigsaw plants growing this year. Hot? You bet’cha!
I picked up one, and he’s been guarding the back door of the house.
Generally, hot pepper plants of all kinds have been the prettiest plants in the garden, even including flowers (a lot of flowers have pretty blooms, but are kinda ugly everywhere else, IMHO). I like to keep them in pots, and bring them in as the weather slips toward frost, peppers are among the least resistant to that. As the hot pepper plants *can* be grown from seed, that’s cheaper, but pepper seeds by and large only last about four years before their germination rates fall off substantially. It’s cheaper and probably more fun to keep the plants alive in the house and put ‘em back out in the spring.
Their relatives the tomato are generally the best seeds in storage. About 20 years ago the germ plasm storage facility pulled some old, uncatalogued packs out of the back of a drawer (as it were). They were researched a bit, no one had heard of the company or the variety, and it turned out to be from around the Civil War.
They had over 90 percent germination, and estimated that the fresh batch of seeds obtained will not fall below 50 percent for 250 years or so.
http://www.hotpepperseeds.com/OverWinteringPeppers.asp
Any way I could talk ya into sending me a cpl of seeds? Freep mail me if you could. Hilarious name Fatalii as in FATAL!!
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