Peppers plant peppers growing upside down?
My dad gave me a variety of extra pepper plants he didn't put in his garden. I planted them in mine. Neither him or I have any idea what variety they were as the plants were mixed up and he had a bunch of different kinds... I just grabbed a few of them. Some I've come to find are REALLY hot :) There's a couple of the plants where the peppers are growing upside down? Like the pepper fruit isn't hanging down from the stem, the pepper is pointing up. Any idea what kind of peppers these might be?
My Bhut Jolokia Pepper (Ghost Pepper) plant won't grow peppers?
This is a common problem with Jolokia peppers. Get a small paintbrush (brush tip the size of a pencil tip). Gently dab the brush into the center of each blossom. The goal is to move small amounts of pollen (yellow dust) from one flower to the next. You should have much better luck with pepper growth. If the problem persists, get a fertilizer lower in nitrogen.
Best way to eat a Ghost Chili Pepper?
I am gonna eat a ghost chili pepper and want to know the best to eat it. I know I need a lot of milk. Would it be better to cut it up and swallow eat piece whole rather than chewing it up? Should I have a full stomach?
What is the proper spelling? Ghost or ghosts?
There are only a few nouns that do not change when made plural: deer fish means (as in, "they have different means of accomplishing the tasks.") offspring series sheep species However, fishes is an accepted plural, so you can go either way.
Why did my plants stop growing?
To me, they look like they needed bigger space to move their roots around. And although they're placed outdoor, they need to be placed somewhere where they'll be a bit exposed to sunlight too. When they will really grow bigger, they will be a very good addition to your garden decors. :) Just my two cents.
Help with planting peppers?
If you are brand new to gardening I will strongly suggest you buy seedlings and skip trying to start your own this year as seed starting and growing a seedling is tricky business, especially with peppers. You can get great peppers at most farmers markets along with really good advice as to how to transplant them and grow them from the person who started the seedlings. Stay away from box stores like Home Depot and Lowe's. You will not get the best seedlings and the advice will be suspect. A local nursery is another good choice. If you want to start some seeds know your plants will be weak and spindly as professional growers start the seeds under lights and use heating pads to keep the seeds warm enough to germinate quickly and than they keep them in climate controlled environments until they are big enough to be hardened off before transplanting. it's a lot easier and cheaper to buy and you will get far better results and it will keep your growing season simpler which is what you want the first couple of years of gardening as there is so much you will have to learn by doing. If you still want to start your own be sure to use a soiless mix that you buy. Never ever use garden soil-it is too heavy for seed starting, usually has a lot of weed seeds and Often will carry diseases to the seeds/seedlings that do not show up for several months All Peppers like full sun, they cannot tolerate cold so plant when you soil is above 70 degrees (it will feel warm to your hand) and the nights do not go below 60F which is late May/early June in most of the USA. All pepper plants produce green peppers that will after 20 to 30 days ripen into red or yellow peppers. You can harvest and eat them at any point but they are bets after they get full color (they also tend to get attacked at this time which means about 50% of the ripe peppers will have bug damage, that is why they cost more at the store-it is much harder to get a ripe pepper than a green pepper). They need a good fertilizer that is lower N than P&K like a 3-5-5 to be applied before planting
Is it illegal to grow Ghost Chili Peppers? ( A.k.A the hottest peeper in the world )?
It is not illegal to grow them. Put a wire fence around the pepper patch to keep people and animals out. That way if they get in you can show that you made an effort to keep them out. Ghost peppers are now about third in hotness.
If my ghost pepper plants have already seen freezing temperatures, is it too late to overwinter them?
You can overwinter them and grow them next year if you bring them indoors. You may need to provide adequate light if you want the peppers to continue to grow. You can also heavily prune and get a jumpstart on next years peppers when the weather is more suitable.Check out this video on how to jumpstart peppers for next year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
Where can I get Trinidad Scorpion Moruga Peppers in Canada?
You will not find fresh one here in Canada, I know that for a fact, I live in Toronto ON and if they were available I would have found them, I have found hot sauces made with them, in a couple of specialty stores here in Toronto, not cheap a small 2-4 oz bottle is $10. I have dried Ghost chili's I bought in one place.
To make hot peppers hotter, should you crossbreed peppers or only use seeds from the hottest peppers that you have grown?
I am going to suggest a landrace approach to pepper improvement. Peppers interbreed fairly successfully when you stick within the same species, for example, you can plant all C. annuum, like jalapeño, cascabel, serrano, cayenne, etc., and their related improvements (for example, I bought an awesome variety that is cayenne-based called “ring of fire”, they are very much hotter than cayenne), and then you can keep the seeds to the hottest peppers that you harvested. Although, you might be better off selecting for disease resistance and productivity, initially, and then for flavor. Your next peppers will lilely be some kind of hybrid between the multiple peppers you had in the garden.You could also do this with the much hotter C. chinensis peppers, which include the jalokia, habanero, and scorpion pepper. Although, I'm not sure how you will test which of your hybrids are the hottest without some lab testing.The idea is to have multiple cultivars of the same pepper species in your garden, for maximum variability, so that eventually you have a wide variety of interesting new hybrids, but all are fantastically successful in your growing conditions. This allows you to forget about focusing on a single variety, and to let the pollination happen as it will, except you only keep the best seeds population-wide. In ten generations, you might have the next “it” hot pepper, or even a collection of awesome hot peppers, all of which regularly and rapidly interbreed with other hot peppers.If you want to make it even more interesting, you can start interbreeding between species. According to this guide to crossing chili peppers, the seed from a C. annuum and C. chinense cross will be partially fertile. This means that you can cross a cayenne (I think this might be the hottest annuum) with a scorpion (likely the hottest chinense), and get something new. Just don't expect all the seeds planted from your cross to be viable, and expect to limit your cultivars in the garden to only the ones you want crossed, so that much more effective same-species-pollen doesn't interfere.In short, why not do both?