Maybe unpopular opinion, but I can’t stand the flavor profile. I think the heat is nice but the flavor is absolutely horrendous. What are your thoughts on habaneros flavor?

Just a logo I created for when I gift hot sauces to my friends. What do you guys think?

I am bearing my “confident” vault that I will select from for 2025. I know my favorites so far over the years, but i have been accumulating more than I have grown. I have my OG peppers, but if anyone sees anything that they can truly stand by as a favorite, I would like to give a try and share feedback. If you don’t see your chili, share your favorite! Grow on and Grow Forward my friends!

He said it was a cross between jays peach scorpion and bubble gum orange which is a 7 pot variety. Would love to get my hands on these seeds one day. Just wanted to share. These aren't my photos.

I saw this in a seed shop in south africa, and i was just curious if its true, since according to Google, the carolina reaper is the hottest chillie (besides pepper x ofcourse)

I’ve got a growing tower with a resident lizard, who has mostly gotten used to me putzing around and pruning. After dark, he finds a leaf and settles down! He’s out cold in all of the pics. Between him and a young Mantis, they handle the pest mitigation.

Sorry if this isn’t allowed here, I had mentioned I emailed him and several people were interested in seeing the data as well so I thought I’d share. He noted the Ed didn’t give him the name of any of the peppers just number codes. You can tell by the SHU which ones are pepper X.

That‘s all. I had some potted plants downstairs outside and someone came by and took all but two of my peppers. I could just spit!

I had a weak season and I was really excited about a little bumper crop but nooooo…. 😒

Picture of plants now /inside/ just because…

It's a superhot hybrid released by burpee most notably sold at home depot. I have to say I was a bit skeptical about it because I found no information or coverage online about it. But I found it to be a surprisingly really nice tasting pepper and super productive too 🤔

Has anyone ever had trouble with squirrels ripping their peppers off and burying them? I found 4 of my still very green habaneros half buried this morning, and a cayenne and jalapeno yesterday. All gnawed off right where the stem meets the fruit. I've never had anything like this happen before and am perplexed. I washed the peppers off since they were still intact, and plan on chucking them in a sauce later.

About a week ago I was commenting on a post and voicing my frustration with the growing season here in Utah, regarding the lack of productivity from my plants (it was really hot for a long time - more so than normal).

u/no_name_user responded to my comment and stated that he had some extra peppers he wasn’t sure what he was going to do with. “Send me your info and I’ll send you some” was his response. So, I took him up on his kind offer.

Well, today a GIANT box arrived. He sent me 11+ pounds of peppers that he grew! I’m still amazed at his generosity. This was WAY beyond anything I thought I’d receive. Truly, one of the greatest gifts I’ve ever had delivered to me. Thank you, so very much, from the bottom of my heart.

I love this little community of pepper lovers and I cannot wait to turn these into hot sauce and send some back to him, along with a variety of different seeds for him to grow next year. You made me so happy with your gift - thank you, thank you, thank you!

I hope to pay it forward and do the same for someone else when I have a good growing season. Inspirational, man! Simply inspirational. Y’all give it up for him!

I mean…they’re only FIVE MONTHS OLD. I’ve skimmed his videos and can’t really find a post that says “hey, here’s my secret”

I’m astonished

After reading all the great reviews I decided to grow this variety. They look beautiful but the flavor profile is kind of basic…obviously, taste is subjective. I am curious to see what others think? Are these overhyped? Maybe my growing conditions are a factor in the muted flavor.

First time trying to overwinter any kind of plant whatsoever, but I liked the peppers from my Scorpion Trinidad plant so much that I had to at least try, really hopes it survives and I hope I didn't bring in any unwanted visitors. I went with the following method : 1. Clipped the branches 2. Removed from orignal pot outside and tried to get rid of as much dirt as possible 3. Rinsed the roots/plants and cleaned it at least three times with insecticidal soap 4. Put in a brand new container with dirt for inside plants from a freshly sealed bag.

I picked my first red ghost pepper and I've been trying little slivers with dinner. It's the first pepper I've tried that was hotter than a habanero.

To those who tried it..

Some hates it and say it taste soapy others loves it and say it have a good citrusy lemon flavor, I watched a UTube video of on a channel called Pepper Ranger and the guy said that he previously planted lemon drops and he hated them but the ones one of his viewers sent him were great.. So my question is, could it be that there were some seeds that were cross pollinated that tasted bad? Could it be that some sellers had the bad ones and others had the good seeds? What's your opinion on some being tasty and others tastes bad.. Where you got your seeds from that tasted good/bad?

Talk about a surprise to see this at Home Depot.

I can never eat spicy food again, goodbye my favourite subreddit

I just recently had a esophagus surgery done due to it being ruptured from throwing up too intensely.

How it got to that was me and a few buds bought a bunch of hot sauces and peppers for the sake of doing a “spice tolerance challenge.” The winner would be crowned the ruler of spice with a grand total of 100 dollars (20 from each person taking part of the challenge).

We would first start with mild hot sauces like Saracha up to whole peppers (seed included). After 12 rounds of gruesome pepper and sauce torture, it was just me and my best friend. We had a total of 20 ghost peppers bought, me being the dumbass that I am, I pretty much challenged him saying “bet you I can pop all in one go” and so with a statement like that I couldn’t go back on my word and trusted in my confidence in having years of built up spice tolerance, I thought to myself that I was going to be fine. Man was I so wrong. A handful of ghost peppers thrusted into my mouth and with that I won the challenge by a landslide. I got my 100 bucks and the praise I wanted to hear. Everyone left after that and pretty much the next couple hours were just me and the toilet. I pretty much threw up everything.

The absolute searing stomach pain was so bad that I couldn’t feel my lower half of my body. I couldn’t take it no more and decided to get myself to the hospital. They ended up finding out that I had a ruptured esophagus from puking so much and had to perform immediate surgery. I went through the surgery and now the doctor is saying that the rupture has damaged my esophagus so badly that it’ll be sensitive to foods not just spice but everything in general. Doc recommended that I never touch spicy food again or else I risk another hospital visit or even death. As well as a diet of liquids and portioned food intake.

So yeah, this is my goodbye to this subreddit, seeing how I’ll never be able to eat spice again. I really enjoyed my time here, I hope you guys will get something out of this story of mine. I hope you won’t act like a dumbass like me and make the same mistake I did.

Isn't this false advertising?

Have seen several posts like this one (https://www.reddit.com/r/HotPeppers/s/uuByKV8END) of a person bringing in their 4yr old plant that looks to be about 12"-18" tall.

All of my mature plants dwarf these sizes by a couple of feet and it makes me wonder if there are pros/cons of larger vs smaller pepper plants when we're talking about plant health and productivity.

All of my plants are healthy and producing. Just curious if I should change what I'm doing or keep growing monsters.