favorite hot peppers to grow (growing, frost, plant, indoors)
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What are your favorite hot peppers to grow. I enjoy pimento L because they are very bright red, Jalapenos because they put out so many, same with habernaros, Rooster spurs because they are HOT, but have a good taste.
I grow a lot of peppers. My favorites are jalapeno, serrano, congo black habanero, Scotch bonnet, fatalii, malagueta, chiltepin, hot cherry, cumari, aji panca, aji amarillo, aji limon, red congo habanero, thai dragon, chocolate bhut jolokia, and Moruga.
I love poblanos but they never yield well for me in size or numbers, and I can buy them for cheap at the grocery store, so I don't grow them any more.
I also love manzanos and rocotos, but this species (pubescens) can't really be grown successfully in Indiana outside of a climate-controlled greenhouse. They need a year-round growing season + mild summer temperatures to grow well. They more or less cease growing and setting pods in the summer heat. When it cools down in the fall they resume growth and set a few pods but most of these don't ripen before the frosts. I'm lucky to get 4 or 5 pods when I grow these, even when I start them indoors in December or overwinter plants, so I've kind of given up on them.
What are your favorite hot peppers to grow. I enjoy pimento L because they are very bright red, Jalapenos because they put out so many, same with habernaros, Rooster spurs because they are HOT, but have a good taste.
Serranos are my favorite.
They are just hot enough, have a nice flavor and are small. I use them for all most all my "spicy" cooking. I like jalapenos also when I want that distinct flavor.
Next year I am planning on putting in one "ghost pepper" plant just because it is the world's hottest pepper and one "peter pepper", just because. LOL
They are just hot enough, have a nice flavor and are small. I use them for all most all my "spicy" cooking. I like jalapenos also when I want that distinct flavor.
Next year I am planning on putting in one "ghost pepper" plant just because it is the world's hottest pepper and one "peter pepper", just because. LOL
20yrsinBranson
I agree completely on serranos, they are my favorite pepper for using fresh. Great green or red, great in fresh, bright-tasting things like pico de gallo and also great in savory things. Just the right amount of heat imo to be able to use enough of the pepper to get the flavor of the pepper along with a nice heat. They are extremely productive and easy to grow and they continue to do well several weeks after the other varieties start to decline from the cold. They apparently evolved some extra cold tolerance since they came from mountainous regions in Mexico, they are always the last plant standing in my garden.
"Ghost peppers" are not the world's hottest pepper though, there are hotter, including Trinidad scorpions, 7 Pod Douglahs, Trinidad scorpion moruga, 7 Pod Brain Strain, etc. There's a constant shuffling at the top, a lot of hype and people trying to get records to cash in on, and not a whole lot of reliable data, which is why I don't get into the world's hottest pepper circus anymore, but they're a little below the hottest varieties. I don't mean to discourage you from growing them though, they are extremely hot and have a nice and very unique flavor.
What are your favorite hot peppers to grow. I enjoy pimento L because they are very bright red, Jalapenos because they put out so many, same with habernaros, Rooster spurs because they are HOT, but have a good taste.
Jalapenos, because of the reason you stated. I was picking them up until about a month ago!
Jalapenos! I can never get enough of them. My plant yielded so many I couldn't get them all before it froze and nipped them. IMO, one pepper I wouldn't recommend, is a banana pepper plant. They are horrible tasting. Blech.
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