[Oshkalaboomboom]

My peppers are still producing fruits as of today, not as big as in the summertime but still with a few good-sized stragglers. After this lot is ripe the plants will slow down to next to nothing, excepts for a few bursts of tiny pods during warm spells. It never gets cold enough to bring them indoors but the brutal winter winds toughen them up and thicken the stems for next season.

That plant is called a Death Spiral because of the ridges that go down the pods in a circular fashion.

The fruits will end up in vinegar, softened and made into a type of Sriracha Sauce I call Sriracha of Death because the peppers are about 50 times hotter than the peppers used in traditional Sriracha sauce.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

You’re a brave man, LOL!

What do you use for fertilizing your peppers? I usually grow only sweet peppers with a few Jalapenos and maybe an Ancho/Poblano on random years.

Mine respond well to a handful of crushed eggshells in the planting hole (mine are in raised beds) and then a top dressing of Bone Meal twice during the growing months.

I do the same for my tomatoes. No blossom end rot and they all seem to produce just fine without any additional fertilizers. I do add compost to the beds every other season, though.

[4everontheRight]

Do you have a recipe to share for your Siracha of death? I still have ghost pepper plants in the garage and between them they have about 10+ peppers left. I grew so many this year that I had enough to make a huge batch of red pepper flakes as it were & wanted to do something else with the last batch.