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Anyone up north has to know that the best peppers to grow are ones that you've overwintered.  It's an amazing process to behold.  I have a plant in a bed with about 60 two-inch (and 3-inch) long 7 Pots that are starting to ripen right now.  There's no way I can get that kind of production...

Cayenne are very easy to grow (at least outside), so don't worry too much.  They are pretty resilient.  Don't like too much water.  I would only water when leaves are drooping.   The bigger the pot, the more the chiles, though.  Looks like you could use another size up.

I agree with ShowMeDaSauce...Marie Sharps and Tropical Pepper Co. are good hot sauces for something you can just pick up at the local market.    I haven't tried all of the Marie Sharps line, but the original habanero sauce tasted just like they promised: farm fresh.  When I harvest my vegetables...

I agree with the people who mention dud jalapenos, because there seem to be a lot of varieties that just don't cut the mustard (or top the nacho cheese).  My personal least favorite was a northern variety from Fedco seeds called Jaluv an Atttitude.  The description bragged it up so much, I...

It all depends on what you've got around.  Paper towel and room temperature has been spotty for me.   Placing the seeds in a Jiffy tray and periodically setting the tray in the area of the wood stove netted almost 100% germination for me.  I feel like warmth is a little more important than...

Growing new varieties every year!  An inexhaustible pool of good candidates.

  The Black Vernissage were a decent tomato for me last year.  Gotta love free.  Not an essential, but you get nice black tomato taste early in the season, so it's okay.   Yes, Baker Creek is somewhat mainstream, at least as far as the homesteading, organic seed-thing goes (like Johnny's or...

  No, it's not weird, it's intentionally deceitful.  I'm 90% certain that what I described to you is what happened.  The delay for Pepper X is because he's still sorting out what Pepper X is!  It is, apparently, now going to be a red of his choosing.     Don't you think it's dishonest that he's...

Who here has grown any number of mustard types?  I've grown fruits labelled mustard from the habanero and Trinidad Scorpion families.  The habanero did eventually turn into an orange pod (certainly not red, though).  The scorpion variety absolutely stayed green through the maturing process until...

I thought the spawn of Satan pepper wasn't even going to be called "Pepper X", rather that was just the temporary term until he unleashed it in all of its glory on an unprepared earth with a moniker the equal of a Hemingway soliloquy.

Instead of starting a new thread, I wanted to chime in on the tabasco plant.  A well-known name due to the "sauce", it's a not-so-well known plant in my experience.    This year, I grew some tabascos from Baker Creek seeds.  The plants that I've seen on YT tend to be a little fatter and longer...

I do think the chiles from the Western Hemisphere are better than those whose origins are in the Eastern Hemisphere.  There are obviously some notorious peppers from the East (Thais, Nagas, Bhuts, Tien Tsin, Kung Pao, Aleppo, and the Africans), but the variety in Mexico and the Caribbean is hard...

The only way to succeed in this climate is to have starters that are nice and mature by early June.  By mature, I'm talking 4 inches high (about 11 or 12 cm) at a minimum and nice broad leafs.  Whether you purchase them or get them going yourself is up to you.  I start a few of my seeds at the...

I don't know how true it really is, but some pepper tasters on YT distinguish between heat and pain.  A pepper that seems to be higher on the pain level will naturally tend to be regarded as a more extreme pepper, and thus "hotter."  MadBallz 7 has a reputation for being just a pain to eat.  I...

Rub them all over someone's underwear for a mischievous prank.  Hilarity will ensue.+

I had some excellent germination this year in some Jiffy peat pads, moved the tray into a window, then stupidly knocked the carefully organized seedlings onto the ground.  Lost all of my order, and only salvaged four out of forty or so.   :tear:   I started again, but what a set-back.

Mustard Habanero should not be in the conversation.  It's a solid pepper, but when space is of the essence, it doesn't make the cut.    Chocolate is the tastiest; I think most would agree.  But, it doesn't produce a classic "habanero" hot sauce.   For the purest, truest essence of habanero, I...

I think the terms are fair, because they give the buyer/grower an idea of what type of plant and seeds he's using.  In the realm of trading seeds, open-pollinated is fair to use, because they are implying that there might be some other random genetic material in there.  Sellers have to guarantee...

Hey, DaQuatz, I'm up in Penobscot County, and I've never seen any nurseries with the real good stuff (though I loved a Mucho Nacho Jalapeno I got one year, produced about 200 peppers!)   Is this from a nursery in Somerset County, by any chance?  I know a guy who told me they have ghost, reaper...

Yes, absolutely have used Vick's.  No luck...I tried coconut oil once, but didn't keep up with it...maybe I'll try the coconut oil, always have a bunch of that on hand...   Come on, guys.  This is The Hot Pepper forum...I thought somebody would have given these mighty mites a try!  Like I said...