Thread: Hot Chiles - aka Pepperheads "corner"

My new plants first year, hope she makes it this winter. Very tasty, I made a salsa with these, mixed with a few jalapino for some extra flavor. My wife almost had some but remembered that the plant out side looked a little different and stopped in her tracks She's not a chilehead

DwarvenChef
Nice and healthy looking plant! What strain? Looks like it's a Habanero or variant?

So the pods grow the same place where the flowers are? The stem does look like a pod-stem where the flowers are.

Originally Posted by rostfrei

So the pods grow the same place where the flowers are? The stem does look like a pod-stem where the flowers are.

Yes! You are correct. The site/place of the flower is where the POD develops and comes from.

Originally Posted by PLanzaSr1957

DwarvenChef
Nice and healthy looking plant! What strain? Looks like it's a Habanero or variant?

Random red habanero from the hardwere store. I was stocking up on herbs for my kitchen and they where having a 2/1 sale, so I grabbed this one.

I'm looking to set up a long planter "Hedge" type set up with some small pequin types that I have not decided on yet, LOVE the colors and how they gro

Originally Posted by PLanzaSr1957

I have tried making HabaNaga powder and think I finally have the process down right - at least for small batches.
A coffee grinder works wonders. Just dedicate it to Chile peppers and never again use it for coffee. EVER! Better yet, buy a new one and dedicate IT.

For the coffee/spice grinder try this.

Toss in a tablespoon of white rice and buzz it fine.
Dump it out and buzz a little more....

I do this and it lets me use the spice grinder for a variety
of spice mixes and while it does not clean it well enough
for coffee it does clean it well enough that Mexican spice
mixes do not taste like yesterdays Curry or yesterdays
Jerk rub.

I also take my little dremel tool and sharpen
the blades just a little once a year.

Alright, let's dig this one back up. Here is what I have sowed ( and currently sprouting ) this year....

ButchT Trinidad Scorpion
Yellow CARDI Scorpion
Green Trinidad Scorpion-JR
7 Pot Douglah
7 Pot Jonah
7 Pot Brain Strain
7 Pot White
7 Pot Yellow
Peach Bhut Jolokia
Yellow Bhut Jolokia
Red Savina Habanero
Cappuccino Habanero

Bring the heat

Originally Posted by ThePhill

Alright, let's dig this one back up. Here is what I have sowed ( and currently sprouting ) this year....

ButchT Trinidad Scorpion
Yellow CARDI Scorpion
Green Trinidad Scorpion-JR
7 Pot Douglah
7 Pot Jonah
7 Pot Brain Strain
7 Pot White
7 Pot Yellow
Peach Bhut Jolokia
Yellow Bhut Jolokia
Red Savina Habanero
Cappuccino Habanero

Bring the heat

Nice.... do you pickle your peppers?

40+ years I worked on a crew in Arizona and the cook in
the crew would have his mom send him pickled hot
peppers from down south. By today's standards his
cooking was not spicy hot but still would warm ya up.

My fav. summer fair is very thin sliced
habanero on chicken breasts. They fall
off after leaving flavor and heat when you
flip the chicken on the grill.

Summer is almost here....

Wow! That's one serious crop for this year!

Originally Posted by ThePhill

Alright, let's dig this one back up. Here is what I have sowed ( and currently sprouting ) this year....

ButchT Trinidad Scorpion
Yellow CARDI Scorpion
Green Trinidad Scorpion-JR
7 Pot Douglah
7 Pot Jonah
7 Pot Brain Strain
7 Pot White
7 Pot Yellow
Peach Bhut Jolokia
Yellow Bhut Jolokia
Red Savina Habanero
Cappuccino Habanero

Bring the heat

Nice crop! Let me ask you this:

-Will these peppers, or some of them, thrive if grown indoors, or do they need a lot of sun/artificial UV light? I've seen friends who grew them in California and Arizona, fairly warm climates, but I would like to try and grow some in Germany this year...

-Where do you get your seeds?

-Also curious how you process them once mature - pickle, make hot sauce, use fresh, etc.?

Thanks, -o