Hot peppers!!!

kei9th

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i am trying to grow ghost chilies, and i just got my chocolate habenero seeds. i know that growing super hot peppers can be hard, but i live in south Florida, pretty much in the tropics where hot peppers grow great. im growing from seed and only 8 out of the 25 seeds have just broke the skin (ghost chilies). it has been two weeks since i used the third grade method of growing beans. paper towel, plastic zip top baggie, small amount of water (enough to dampen the paper towel) take dampened paper towel, fold in half, place seeds in crease of fold, place in zip-top baggie, seal the top of baggie, place in warn temp. open baggie once a day to make sure there is enough moisture, and, to check if any seeds have sprouted. i soaked the ghost seeds because i read that it is a good way to start the seeds. why wont these seeds sprout? i started the chocolate habenero seeds today. from what i read they are 30 times less hot than the ghost, but are easier to grow. 100,000?350,000 on the Scoville scale for the habeneros, The Naga Jolokia has been tested at over 1,001,300 Scoville heat units. (Ghost chilies)
Anyone grow hot chilies? by the way and tabasco sauce is only 5000 shu.
 
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I have a couple of rows of habeneros growing this year, I bought as plants though. Love the heat :D, and it's actually good for you. Never tried to grow the ghost but had tried it in some sauces, good stuff.

Not a very big fan of tabasco, don't like the taste. Right now I'm using 357 Mad Dog hot sauce and Spontaneous Combustion.
 

EricJRW

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Here's my Bhut Jolokia crop, grown from seeds, from last year. My plants are already starting to flower this year.

Hmm... Uploader not working... Will try again in a bit.

Man do I have a story about 357 Mad Dog. I'll link to it when I get to those photos. Hottest stuff I ever tasted in my life, and I like hot!

PS. I'll add my sprouting method next too...
 

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I make Bear Spray and OC law enforcement sprays for a living, you want something that is hot, our OC(pepper oil) is rated at 3.2 million scoville heat units, now you want some spice! LOL
 

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Mace Security Intl used to produce their pepper sprays in VT and I used to love taste testing. I was training people in non lethal self defense and during the class to demonstrate how harmless the spray was..... I used to take a shot into my mouth.

My wife just got me a bottle of this yesterday http://tropicalpepper.com/product.asp?idProduct=135 and it is rated at 1/2 mil .......... based on my pepper spray training and playing..... anything over 1/2 mil is wasted on pain and not flavor :)
 

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Mace Security Intl used to produce their pepper sprays in VT and I used to love taste testing. I was training people in non lethal self defense and during the class to demonstrate how harmless the spray was..... I used to take a shot into my mouth.

My wife just got me a bottle of this yesterday http://tropicalpepper.com/product.asp?idProduct=135 and it is rated at 1/2 mil .......... based on my pepper spray training and playing..... anything over 1/2 mil is wasted on pain and not flavor :)

Bob, I am VERY familiar with MACE products!

Now I can tell from personal experience, you want everything you can get when you have a 600lb grizzly bear charging you at 35 mph!

:eek:
 

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LOL Yes I was trained by the Mace Company (they were starting out in Bennington, VT) and trust me........if a 600 lb grizzly was even in the area I would feel more comfortable with a 12 ga or my 1911........ the hell with the sprays!!
 

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LOL Yes I was trained by the Mace Company (they were starting out in Bennington, VT) and trust me........if a 600 lb grizzly was even in the area I would feel more comfortable with a 12 ga or my 1911........ the hell with the sprays!!

Well Bob,

I quit carrying my guns several years ago, after my first encounter with a grizz, even with my combat experience, I can guarantee you, I am not good enough to stop a grizz, but the spray did! I am a bowhunter and am allowed to carry my guns when I am hunting, but with the spray, I don't have to be accurate, I simply have to spray! The stuff works. I am a two time encounter survivor now, and will take the spray over my guns any day of the week, including the .44 Desert Eagle I bought today!

Even the Alaska guys are starting to carry the spray over guns, I shipped over 400 cans to Alaska today!

Your 1911, is no more than a bee sting to a pissed off grizz!

Now a days, I teach over 1000 people a year on how to use this stuff, including several hundred combat vets that work as game wardens, I also teach law enforcement on OC sprays.

LOL
 

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Couldn't a charging grizzly be stopped by just taking away the credit card :D
 

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You really gotta take away the charge card fast, especially from the ones wearing lipstick! :eek: :)
 

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if a 600 lb grizzly

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Just joking MT, no offense meant to your products.
 

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I just picked a couple Inferno Peppers. Good texture, nice taste, few seeds :cool:
 

R Socey

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Hot peppers are another hobby of mine: I grew a bunch of ghost chillies last year - I think I ate 1, a little at a time. You should have no trouble at all growing them in fla. This year I have 7, Trinidad Scorpion Butch T plants. The Jalokia ( Ghost ) peppers come in at 800K scoville units to 1M. The Scorpions come in at 1.47M scoville units ( how many drops of water to attenuate beyond heat ditection ) You can buy pure capsaisum 15M scovilles. A really hot Jabenero is about 40K scoville. I bought my Sorpions of ebay.
I start my seeds in Miracle Grow moister controll potting soil, and have had great success since 1992, with germination.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nat...uga-scorpion-worlds-hottest-chili-pepper.html
 

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I have to admit both my wife and I have a hot sauce habit. We probably have no less then 20 bottles in the house and they are all different types.

I actually look for the water based sauces which in my opinion taste cleaner.
 

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Fileted Habaneros with a saltine and Swiss or cheddar cheese is one of my favorite snacks. Excellent scalp perspiration.
 

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I have to admit both my wife and I have a hot sauce habit. We probably have no less then 20 bottles in the house and they are all different types.

I actually look for the water based sauces which in my opinion taste cleaner.

The water based formulas, taste a bit cleaner, due the fact the pepper oil and water does not mix, so you never get the full effect of the peppers. Of course the Oleoresin of Capsicum(OC) , is not the most important thing in the pepper oil, it is the Major Capsaicinoids(MC) that makes it hot. For every lot of pepper oil you get, you get a report of the MC in the oil.
 

catfishcarl99

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you can do it. i grew the ghost (b-hut's) jolokias a few years ago in illinois. they were smokin. i lost my seeds. hottest thing im growing this year is carribian reds. but if that aint enough lol. makes an orange habenaro taste like bells. few pics for ya of mine from my p-bucket archives.
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african yellow fatilis
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ripe ghost pepper
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green ghost
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catfishcarl99

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few on the smoker
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look at my abt rack. 4 smashed beer cans. now thats redneck ingenuity.
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catfishcarl99

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making homeade jalapeno summer sausage (venison)
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jalapeno brauts venison.
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ya this year i have jalapeno, cayanne, hot bananna, carib red, habenaro, bell, sorenno's. think thats it.

im a chili head. i take my own tobasco sauce to the all you can eat monicals pizza place here since they only have red-hot. lol.
 

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Okay this whole thread ha been dangerous..... Could you PLEASE PM me the tobasco sauce recipe you use. We are always open to new hot sauce recipes.

I found that amazon has a good chili pepper seed selection ;)

BTW I am enjoying the Franks Hot Sauce commercials on TV........ " I use that **** on everything ":D
 
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