Thread: In the Garden 2016

Originally Posted by rolodave

Would any of you know what these are? The pot said "Hot Chili Peppers" with a 70k Sco heat.
They are hot. A neighbor thinks they are serrano. The plant is very prolific.

Guess I should have put a ruler in the pic. They are about 2 in. (5cm) long.

Nice peppers. Do they point to the sky on the plant or do they hang downward? If they point up I think they are these...

I've heard them called both "Point to sky peppers" or "Heaven facing peppers" from translation.

They do indeed point to the sky.

Very cool , I may have to plant some of them next year, you say they pack some heat, but the favor is it sweet? Tc

I grew some "Point to sky" peppers on a couple occasions a few years back. One of my favorites because they were easy to grow, have strong heat, and are easy to dry by hanging; the pods are smallish and thin-walled. I did not find them to be very sweet, just spicy in a delicious way. The ones I grew were spicier than cayenne, serrano, jalapeno. I dried them, ground in a (quarantined) coffee grinder, and used them in chili, on pizza, eggs, stir fry, cold noodles with peanut sauce, "fra diavolo" pasta dishes, etc. Best to let them turn red on the plant before picking to develop full flavor and heat.

Originally Posted by tcrideshd

Very cool , I may have to plant some of them next year, you say they pack some heat, but the favor is it sweet? Tc

Not sweet but they will light you up in an empty mouth. Trust me on that.

Originally Posted by xiaotuzi

That's terrific! It sounds like the process works and could be replicated. I'm wondering if making the dried peppers into almost a powder, like sending them through a coffee grinder, would increase the pepper flavor? I like that you were able to get a couple different flavors and heat levels that could be used for different purposes.

Unless you could find a way to keep them well mixed I think that you could go to fine. I just used a standard kitchen strainer so there were some fines but I got 99.5 % pf the pepper out.

Today my teaspoon sample of the Habanero was much spicier! I got to looking and the small pieces of pepper are rising to the top. Probably with the bubbles that settle out of honey.

That honey would be good with some peanut butter! Yum yum. Tc

Mix the honey with softened butter and apply to hot biscuits.

Lacking infused honey, sorghum molasses would be great. Childhood revisited.

Just had a red and a green Point to the Sky peppers with some pizza.
Xiaotuzi is correct. The red ripe ones are hot but go great with pizza.

Caramel Bhut Jolokia plants continue to pump out the pods!