I don't consider myself a novice gardener.
Last year I yielded well over 100 habs and jalapenos. This year I am on a mission to grow Bhut Jolokia. Those are also called ghost peppers.
Anyone grow these and any tips would be appreciated.|||germinate early....like now...or very soon =] (should take about 2-4 weeks if you do it right) And germinate at about 80-90 degrees. (ideal climate for hot peppers)
after that, move them to direct sun to harden off, before planting.
and I'd transplant them to either the ground, or like a 2.5 foot center. They need room to spread out, IMO
oh, and don't pluck em when they're orange, wait till they turn red.... they'll be MUCH hotter if you do ^_^|||I would just be careful with those. There are Koreans who shy away from that pepper and we are known for our fondness for spice.|||Serranos here.
Lots and Lots.|||Quote:
I would just be careful with those. There are Koreans who shy away from that pepper and we are known for our fondness for spice.
Yeah, I know. I prolly wont eat them but just to grow the hottest pepper..that would be so awesome to me. Is that totally wrong of me just to want to grow something just to grow it? As I said, I am not a novice gardener and they are difficult to grow in my region and I want to try.
Bob, I had horrid luck with my Serranos last year. I think I ended up with three decent peppers. They were the size of string beans.
One thing I did notice is that my hot peppers did much better in containers than in the ground. My potted Habs yielded pepper after pepper but the ones in the ground kind of petered out. Perhaps it was a drainage issue. My pepper patch is three years old now. Each year I "till" it up...that is me hacking at the ground with a mattock then amending the soil with peat and other amendments by hand. Call me silly, but that is soothing to me.|||Mine are potted as well.|||Quote:
Yeah, I know. I prolly wont eat them but just to grow the hottest pepper..that would be so awesome to me. Is that totally wrong of me just to want to grow something just to grow it? As I said, I am not a novice gardener and they are difficult to grow in my region and I want to try.
Bob, I had horrid luck with my Serranos last year. I think I ended up with three decent peppers. They were the size of string beans.
One thing I did notice is that my hot peppers did much better in containers than in the ground. My potted Habs yielded pepper after pepper but the ones in the ground kind of petered out. Perhaps it was a drainage issue. My pepper patch is three years old now. Each year I "till" it up...that is me hacking at the ground with a mattock then amending the soil with peat and other amendments by hand. Call me silly, but that is soothing to me.
I did not mean to imply anything.
I just gave the warning in case you wanted to eat them. Yeah, people know they are hot but some people don't realize just how hot they really are. Just trying to be helpful, here.
Also, my grandparents have always wanted to grow tomatoes. They tried for 10 years, every year, to plant and grow them in their yard. They would have nice enough looking plants, but the tomatoes would never show up or would fall off while still grape-sized. One year they finally put them into a bucket instead of the ground. They've been producing some of the most delicious, full, red-ripe tomatoes I've ever seen. I usually eat them like an apple.
Some people's dirt just isn't good for fruits, I guess. Buckets are awesome for them.
|||Quote:I did not mean to imply anything.
I just gave the warning in case you wanted to eat them. Yeah, people know they are hot but some people don't realize just how hot they really are. Just trying to be helpful, here.
Also, my grandparents have always wanted to grow tomatoes. They tried for 10 years, every year, to plant and grow them in their yard. They would have nice enough looking plants, but the tomatoes would never show up or would fall off while still grape-sized. One year they finally put them into a bucket instead of the ground. They've been producing some of the most delicious, full, red-ripe tomatoes I've ever seen. I usually eat them like an apple.
Some people's dirt just isn't good for fruits, I guess. Buckets are awesome for them.
I hope I didn't sound ungrateful for the advice. I should have started a new paragraph instead of continuing. I was just curious if people thought it was wrong to grow something just to grow it without any use for it.
Your grandparents should try a topsy turvey type container for their tomatoes. I made my own with my daughter. I took a bucket, cut a hole in the bottom big enough for the roots to be pushed through. I then to a sponge and cut a slit in it and placed it around the roots after the roots were inside the bucket. Fill that with soil and hang it on a hook. The tomatoes grow upside down and they really yielded quite a bit of fruit for me over the summer. I also made one for eggplant.|||Quote:
I would just be careful with those. There are Koreans who shy away from that pepper and we are known for our fondness for spice.
That and incredibly small genitals.
I wonder if they go hand in hand.|||Quote:
That and incredibly small genitals.
I wonder if they go hand in hand.
Johnny, those are some of the hottest peppers one can grow. I have read three times hotter than a Habanero. Habs are very hot so I can't imagine how hot a ghost pepper would be.
I found more varieties of peppers I want to grow. They are basically from an online catalog from the New Mexico State University. Oh my goodness, Samara and I were looking at peppers for quite some time.
For those who like a good hot sauce:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Bobs-Ha...re/Detail.aspx
Darn, thats good.
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