WOW! 2 Million Scoville Units Hot

[Zana]

Hmmmmm....so far I think I fall into somewhere between the small percentage and the rush junkies. LOL

[livinonfaith]

Originally Posted by marktutt

I've got several gallons of superhots still in the freezer that are going to be blended up for my homemade pepper spray. The deer are constantly in my community garden plots, so this year I'm going to hose things down and teach them to avoid the area.

If I wasn't afraid it would get stolen I'd put a trail camera out so I could watch.

I actually like deer, but where I used to live they would come up to my tomato garden and take one bite out of each of my tomatoes. Not the whole tomato, mind you, just one bite. I guess they had to try each and every one just to make sure they didn't like any of them.

So please share that video if you ever do get it!

[livinonfaith]

Petronius, Thanks for the tip on the habanero. I may try it next year. This year my hot peppers are Fish, Ancho, Jalepeno, Cyklon, and my own Mystery long red pepper. (From a corrupted pack of Aconcagua last year. It's my new favorite.)

I'm hoping the Fish pepper may be hot enough to give the voles a run for their money.

That is just flat crazy!

They should come out with a car that runs on hot peppers.

[tjg911]

Originally Posted by marktutt

Not at all. I sent out a lot of gift boxes last year for people to try them

oh mark and i thought it was cuz i was special!

Originally Posted by marktutt

The superhots are kind of like skydiving, for most people it's insane; for a small percentage it's a 'Ok, I did it, don't need to repeat it'. Then there are the rush junkies.

mark i think that's an excellent way to describe it. i really enjoyed eating them, i liked the intensity of them, it was an experience but i really don't want dozens of dozens... i don't need an entire plant's worth much less 10 different varieties!! my 1 hab plant gave me 110 peppers to freeze in early october and i was picking them during the season! i have a lot of habs still in the freezer.

there's a guy locally that grows and sells garlic, tomatoes and peppers, i bought some lemon drops from him last summer. he's a good place to look for the super hot peppers where i can get just 3 or 10.

tom

[Fusion_power]

I need about 4 Bhut Jolokia's in the course of a year. One to convince myself to never ever put anything like that in my mouth again, and 3 to stir my soup with. I make soup about 12 times a year so if I cut 3 peppers into 1/4's, I can stir all 12 pots of soup.

Other than that, I am planning on growing about 50 superhot pepper plants this year. Why? Seed!




Voles? yep, you will surely give the voles a run for their money. They LOVE the taste of hot peppers.

DarJones

[stormymater]

HA! I am growing several of the 7 pots, the Scorpions & the Bhuts (including but not limited to Jolokia). I plan to plant them where I had sweet peppers last year - the field is about an hour from my home - there was great pillaging. Hoping some of these get pillaged. Bet it'll happen only once. If only they looked like California Wonders.

[Fusion_power]

Two years ago, I moved a dozen Chapeau de Frade pepper plants into my greenhouse late in the fall so they could finish maturing the huge crop they had set and which I needed for seed. A couple of weeks later, I noticed that there were not as many peppers on the plants as I remembered. Then I started cleaning out from under the plant lattices and voila, found a gopher nest with about 3 gallons of ripe peppers stashed and ready for winter stores. They were not hurt otherwise, just harvested so I cleaned the seed out of them. I set a trap and caught the gopher, you just can't afford to have them in a greenhouse.

DarJones

[rockhound]

It would have been a long winter for that gopher anyway, with nothing to eat but hot peppers, lol.
On the subject of a car that runs on peppers, maybe a combination of a hamster wheel and a hot pepper drip or something...you know he has to run to get away, lol. OK, so it won't run a car, maybe a cellphone charger? I need more coffee.

[livinonfaith]

Voles LIKE hot peppers? Figures.

I have a great love for little furry things, but these tiny beasts have taken over and are eating EVERYTHING I plant. I hate them. I really do.
I may still try one of the superhots next year. Surely it would irritate their little eyes?

(And yes, I now sound like Cruella DeVille. "I'll make SOCKS out of their little carcasses. (insert evil laugh)")

Originally Posted by livinonfaith

Voles LIKE hot peppers? Figures.

I have a great love for little furry things, but these tiny beasts have taken over and are eating EVERYTHING I plant. I hate them. I really do.
I may still try one of the superhots next year. Surely it would irritate their little eyes?

(And yes, I now sound like Cruella DeVille. "I'll make SOCKS out of their little carcasses. (insert evil laugh)")

Whatever you do to combat voles and moles, do not buy the gizmo that takes four D batteries and you stick it in the ground and it puts out a noise every 30 seconds.... because --- It does NOT work!

[sfmathews]

I have a small narrow bed along my driveway. The only thing I plant there are hots and super hots. (I actually have two plants of the TS Morouga, what I'll do with the pods I don't know!) If someone decides to help themselves to some peppers, there are only so many they can use. And if they get something that blows their head off, well they've learned not to mess with those plants again!

Originally Posted by stormymater

HA! I am growing several of the 7 pots, the Scorpions & the Bhuts (including but not limited to Jolokia). I plan to plant them where I had sweet peppers last year - the field is about an hour from my home - there was great pillaging. Hoping some of these get pillaged. Bet it'll happen only once. If only they looked like California Wonders.

[guruofgardens]

Quote from marktutt " I sent out a lot of gift boxes last year for people to try them, and I strongly suspect the majority of them will not be growing any. For me with last year's bumper crop it was like they were zucchini, after I had the freezer half full of peppers and my hands were blistering from seeding them, anyone who asked about them got some."

Anytime you want to send a gift box my way, I'll definitely use them! You sent seeds and they're already planted. Yes, the hot pepper bug really bites hard.

[Boutique Tomatoes]

It bites hard, but it can bite back pretty good. I got a call tonight from a friend who'd seen the report and knew I'd grown them last year and he wanted seeds ( I think he's hoping to make a killing on ebay selling seeds next year.)

I gave him some dried pods too and told him to try crumbling them into flakes and putting them on pizza. He said they couldn't eat a dish they made last year with a Jamacian hot chocolate, so I don't think they'll be trying them.

I've got 4 or 5 seeds each started for 74 new varieties this year, we'll see what I end up with. I saw a 7-Pot "Brain Strain" pop today. Probably this fall I'll be calling myself an idiot for starting so many. But maybe next years record holder is in the trays now.

[biscgolf]

just over 100 varieties for me this year... tsmb were showing hooks yesterday...