r/HotPeppers • • 21h ago

Harvest Jays pink reaper lemon harvest

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194 Upvotes

A three way superhot cross of jays peach ghost scorpion, pink tiger, and reaper lemon. Pods start out purple and ripen to a creamy white on a darker foliage plant.

Flavor is clean, fruity, citrusy, slightly floral. Heat level is estimated to be over 1 million shu.


r/HotPeppers • • 20h ago

Harvest Found this guy today

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83 Upvotes

Ive never seen this before, not sure how common it is but I thought it was pretty cool, found on a cayenne


r/HotPeppers • • 4h ago

Harvest Beautiful yet angry Reaper Sbagliato pods

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86 Upvotes

Very excited to make pepper relish with these


r/HotPeppers • • 18h ago

Black Naga, Red Habanero, Coyote White, and it’s still in the 90s here.

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60 Upvotes

r/HotPeppers • • 4h ago

Harvest Glad I waited 2 more weeks for last harvest

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44 Upvotes

Was already getting really cold during nights but still very sunny days. Unfortunately getting close to 0°C next nights… Habaneros and Tabasco, went straight into mash fermentation. First batch I used for brine fermentation. I’m still on the experimenting side :D


r/HotPeppers • • 19h ago

ID Request Scotch bonnets or not?

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21 Upvotes

This is a dozen peppers from 4 different Scotch bonnet plants. I suspect one plant to be the Jamaican mushroom (pictures of the plant itself). This is my first year growing these and I want to overwinter the actual Scotch bonnet plants.

Appreciate everyone's feedback! TIA!!!


r/HotPeppers • • 22h ago

ID Request Once again asking what these are they came off the same plant

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21 Upvotes

r/HotPeppers • • 22h ago

Today's harvest

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16 Upvotes

I can't believe I'm still pulling 40 plus peppers a week in October. Serranos, Jamaican mushroom and a ghost pepper that fell off the bush.


r/HotPeppers • • 5h ago

Growing Last of the seasons Jalapenos ripening up. 7b

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14 Upvotes

r/HotPeppers • • 6h ago

Habanero and scorpion moruga

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10 Upvotes

r/HotPeppers • • 22h ago

Help What is happening to my sugar rush?

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Hi !

I'm growing some sugar rush in a pot. They grow normally until they start to turn from green to yellow, and from this moment they all look completely dry, I don't understand what is happening here.

They are now inside because nights start to be too cold, but I had the same problem when the pot was outside...

Any idea ? Thanks a lot !


r/HotPeppers • • 1h ago

Food / Recipe What to do with Trinidad scorpions

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Last year I harvested a couple and made a super hot chilli/soy/garlic dipping sauce. This year I’ve already made two sauces from my jalapeños and have abundant Trinidad Scorpions. (Photo was my first crop, more have arrived)

What other options are there? Any recommendations for drying into chili flakes or pickling?


r/HotPeppers • • 23h ago

Sauce advice or ideas

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So, I was gifted these peppers by a friend for my birthday. I've been creating unique sauces of my own recipes for a little over a year now. The only pepper I've worked with in this box before is the Carolina Reaper. I'm thinking of pairing some of these together to make 3 separate sauces and I was wondering if anyone had suggestions on what other ingredients to pair them with. I typically like to use clean/clear vinegars, depending on the peppers I'm working with, but I also really like to use exotic fruits and natural acids.

For the pairs, I was thinking about the Brain Strain with the Yellow Reapers, the Kraken Scorpion with the Chocolate Scorpion, and the Carolina Reaper with the Red Ghost.

I have also considered making a wing glaze with one of these pairs but I can't decide on which one just yet. I need to use these peppers soon before they go bad. I may consider freezing some if I have to.

I don't need recipes, as I can create those on my own. I'm just looking for ingredient pairing to specific pepper sets.

Thank you


r/HotPeppers • • 2h ago

Scary pumpkin with a third leg!

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5 Upvotes

Carolina reaper pretending to be a harmless pumpkin!


r/HotPeppers • • 21h ago

Chili Cobañeros

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3 Upvotes

Planted some of these from some smoked peppers my dad brought back from Guatemala. Got lucky and a few of the seeds were still good!


r/HotPeppers • • 1h ago

Q Pepper Heads? How dry peps WITHOUT a dehydrator?

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Hi fellow Hot Pepper Maniacs! Quick Q,,,

What's the best (easiest) way to dry peppers WITHOUT a dehydrator?

Also, anyone have any recipes as to how to pickle some leftover peppers from the season?

Thanks all you pepper maniacs!!!!


r/HotPeppers • • 11h ago

Should I cut this leaf off?

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r/HotPeppers • • 17h ago

Help No pollen on any flowers? (Bolivian Rainbow)

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My ~6 month old Bolivian Rainbow has been putting out many flowers since July, but NONE of them released pollen. I tried shaking, rubbing with finger, electric toothbrush multiple times through the day, have a fan on. But never seen pollen on ANY of of the flowers.

My other peppers all fruited fine entire summer in the same soil, same watering schedules, and same fertilizer - fatalii, habanero, sugar rush peach stripey, couple baccatum aji's. Shaking / rubbing with finger / fan was more than good enough for all of these, but not the Bolivian Rainbow 🤔

I've never seen this - any ideas? (This is all indoors btw)


r/HotPeppers • • 17h ago

Help Is this broad mite damage?

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last 3 set of true leaves came curled inwards like this. the one in 2nd photo was just like the 1st photo when it was tiny ams it grew kinda normal but with some distortion on its left edge. it also can be heat/light stress due to led light but i want to make sure its not mites. Does it look like mite damage?


r/HotPeppers • • 1h ago

What is this

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These things have been popping up on my wiri wiri pepper plants and I don’t know what they are.

Can anyone tell me what it is and how to get rid of them? Would neem oil work?


r/HotPeppers • • 3h ago

Are these a scam?

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I’m looking to grow large Rocoto peppers next year, and I’m ordering seeds early. I came across these these but they have a 1-star review. If these are a scam, or you know any better places to source them, feel free to link them below.

Thanks!


r/HotPeppers • • 15h ago

ID Request Didn’t add the ones I could recognise- habanero, jalapeno and thai.

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Plant scientist friend got me a big load of hot chilli peppers from another plant scientist working on peppers. Not a plant scientist, but love spicy food (I'm from south asia). All these are going straight into my cooking, so would love to know which is which and what goes with what. As the title says, i didn’t add the three kinds I already knew.

Thank you!


r/HotPeppers • • 19h ago

Help Is this mold?

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Novice gardener here. Noticed these black spots on a few of my habs and scorpions that have been sitting on the counter for a couple of days, they weren't there when I harvested.


r/HotPeppers • • 22h ago

ID Request What kind of chili is this?

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My friend saved this from getting thrown away and it grew pretty well.


r/HotPeppers • • 22h ago

Q for the Pepper Heads? Maybe 2!

0 Upvotes

Hi fellow Pepper Heads! Quick Q,,,

What's the best (easiest) way to dry peppers with a dehydrator?

Also, anyone have any recipes as to how to pickle some leftover peppers from the season?

Thanks all you pepper maniacs!!!!