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Post by mike on Sept 11, 2022 19:15:53 GMT -5
This Red Habanero originated in the Caribbean, as did all Red Habaneros. Until 2006, this was considered the worlds hottests pepper at 550,000 Scoville units. I've grown these one other time. These are considered to be one of the easier red habaneros to grow. I am growing these on a 40w Bounty.
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Post by lynnee on Sept 11, 2022 20:21:57 GMT -5
That's interesting to know, mike! When we first moved to California, many years ago, I bought a bagful of Habaneros at the grocery store because they were so pretty. After eating one, the rest went into the garbage, and it was a long, long time before I tried another Habenero!  I saw a headline a couple of days ago about a new hottest pepper, but didn't have time to read the story, so don't know the name. I guess it's hotter than a Ghost pepper! |
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Post by mike on Sept 11, 2022 20:53:58 GMT -5
There have been several peppers that have been the hottest since this one. This was replace by one of the scorpion peppers. Then the Ghost Pepper, Carolina Reaper has been sitting as the hottest in recent years. But Ed Currie has at least two varieties hotter than the Reaper. The Reaper is more than 2.5 Million Scoville units. One without a name is referred to as Pepper X is more than twice as hot. There is one more that is supposed to be much hotter.
5 years ago I had a Chicken wing with Carolina Reaper sauce on it. A co-worker grew the peppers for the sauce. It was the hottest thing I have ever experienced. One wing and I had to sit down. The guy that made it ate six wings. I almost passed out on the 1.
Ghost peppers are as hot as I'll go for sauce.
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Post by lynnee on Sept 11, 2022 22:02:25 GMT -5
If you ask me, those peppers are too hot for anyone to eat! I'm glad that you survived your encounter. I just found the story that I skipped, and it was actually a New Yorker humor article about a fictitious "Pompeii Spider Monkey" pepper. So there is NO new hot pepper after all! Thank goodness!  |
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Post by mike on Sept 11, 2022 22:29:24 GMT -5
The hottest seeds you can buy are for various Reaper varieties. They won't even sell Pepper X seeds. They are only for governmental pepper spray uses from what I hear. Those really hot ones have a nasty floral flavor that makes me gag, anyway. Ed Currie is the guy responsible for creating all of the hottest ones, including the Reaper. He and a group of others are cross breeding all the new strains. They can have them.
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Post by Shawn on Sept 12, 2022 3:43:55 GMT -5
Following your pepper grow  |
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Post by mike on Sept 12, 2022 19:03:47 GMT -5
BTW, Pepper X has a SHU rating of 3.18 Million. Pepper X |
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Post by Shawn on Sept 13, 2022 4:43:09 GMT -5
BTW, Pepper X has a SHU rating of 3.18 Million. Pepper X |
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Post by lynnee on Sept 13, 2022 17:19:11 GMT -5
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Post by mike on Sept 18, 2022 11:15:22 GMT -5
I see activity in one pod here.
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Post by tompepper7 on Sept 18, 2022 16:03:04 GMT -5
I have one Caribbean Red Habanero (from Mountain Valley) plant going in a Bounty Basic. Mine is about 30 days old and 2 1/2 inches tall. I just trimmed back one shorter plant so there is only one growing in that pod.
I had tried to start a Thai Bird Chili on the other side but that hasn't started and has the white stuff inside the pod.
I planted one Bok Choy plant in the middle just to see how they are assuming it would grow faster and get removed when the peppers got larger. The Bok Choy is nice and every few days I get 3 leaves from that one plant.
Not sure if the Red Habanero will take over the Aerogarden like my Santa Fe Grande. It has been going about 70 days and has 7 good size peppers with others starting.
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Post by mike on Sept 19, 2022 19:23:45 GMT -5
Tompepper, looks like you're well along the way to addiction like the rest of us. Nice to see another member getting into the peppers.
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Post by tompepper7 on Sept 20, 2022 0:10:25 GMT -5
....I bought a bagful of Habaneros at the grocery store because they were so pretty. After eating one, the rest went into the garbage.... I have fooled around with making a curry sauce and for one I like one habanero is the right amount of heat.
I used to enjoy crunchy tacos with roasted serranos on the side at El Pollo Loco, but neither is available now-a-days. The roasted serranos were a bit unpredictable as sometimes it was nice to get a spicy bite of pepper then a bite of taco and other times a bite of pepper would set you on fire and you could finish the taco with no further pepper.
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Post by mike on Sept 20, 2022 4:24:41 GMT -5
The Serrano's I grew l grew last Fall had a good kick at first, perhaps twice as hot as a Jalapeno. My final harvest had peppers that weren't even Jalapeno heat. I like the Piney flavor of a Habanero. But they can get bitter.
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Post by Shawn on Sept 24, 2022 12:33:07 GMT -5
And they are on their way ....
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Post by mike on Sept 25, 2022 11:33:45 GMT -5
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Post by Shawn on Oct 1, 2022 8:49:26 GMT -5
The King is back !!!!
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Post by Shawn on Oct 7, 2022 2:41:35 GMT -5
Doing nice Mike
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Post by mike on Oct 11, 2022 22:14:34 GMT -5
Added 12 ml Nutes and 5 ml CALiMAGic on Monday the 10th, a day late.
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Post by mike on Oct 15, 2022 10:35:16 GMT -5
I'm pulling the center plant this week.
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