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Trinity River Bottom

i know its off topic but i have been drying hot pepper seeds . i have ghost pepper several varietes of habeneros down to mild jalapenos. if any body would like some seed let me know

8/31/2010 9:48:55 AM

Rochester, Minnesota

I like peppers and grow around 100 to 200 plants in my garden each year. Many are some pretty hot varieties. How do you keep them from crossing?

8/31/2010 9:55:19 AM

Trinity River Bottom

james i have found that they do not readily cross by themselves. iv'e had no problem for the last couple years. not saying it don't or can't happen they just don't cross easily. i do keep my seed pepper plants seperated
further apart than the ones i grow to eat.

8/31/2010 10:12:09 AM

Alabama

I would love to have some. send the address to jvh440(at)yahoo.com and I'll get a bubble out to you.

8/31/2010 1:20:00 PM

Alabama

Also can you tell a big different in heat between the ghost pepper and the habeneros?

8/31/2010 1:31:22 PM

Trinity River Bottom

when a pepper gets that hot you can't tell in my opinion. they do have totally diferent flavors. also it is a toss up to which pepper is hotter hab. or ghost .they vary so much on the scoville scale habeneros can vary from 300,000- to over 900,000 units so can the ghost pepper. both very hot!

8/31/2010 3:24:50 PM

SE Minnesota

I would love some pepper seeds as well...crashdavis20(at)hotmail.com...thanks

Jim

8/31/2010 4:39:23 PM

Rochester, Minnesota

I looked for pictures on the web for ghost peppers and they just look like habeneros which look like scotch bonnets. I think they are all in the same class of peppers.

Personally I don't like acidity taste. There are other very hot peppers I prefer working with. But I have a really cool recipe for South Of the Border (SOB) all pepper catsup that we make each year, but you cook it so long that lots of the heat mellows out. It's in the "All Catsup Cookbook".

8/31/2010 4:44:55 PM

Trinity River Bottom

i agree james there are probably 100's of peppers in the habenero family . i don't think the ghost is but who knows . the ghost i grow looks nothing like any of my habeneros. and smell nothing like them either. i'll have to look that SOB up.

8/31/2010 5:00:41 PM

Trinity River Bottom

other than pickling or canning my peppers. i also dry and grind them. the ones i grind are jalapenos, habeneros, and cayenne. 5 lbs of peppers will make about a half pint jar of ground pepper.

8/31/2010 5:12:31 PM

Mercersburg, PA

what do you do special to grind? a mill? i would like some more info on what you have please. have you been growing your own seed? i just got into growing some from seed this year. seemed to work out ok. cheaper than buying them and you never know what the greenhouses will have available. jjlorson@yahoo.com

8/31/2010 6:37:16 PM

Rochester, Minnesota

I use a food dehydrator to dry my cayennes and then I use mini-blender containers to turn them into powder. When done grinding, I run the powder though a screen to get out anything that didn't want to grind well.

To compete with Mrs. Dash, I sometimes add other spices to my ground pepper and call it Mr. Crash and Burn.

9/1/2010 8:02:10 AM

Trinity River Bottom

i do it the same way mmm said . i don't screen though i can grind most of the seed up. cayenne are probably the easiest to dry and grind. your thicker skin peppers take longer to dry. thin skin like cayenne i put on dehydrator whole . but jalapenos and hab. i cut in half length ways. when i can crush pepper in my hand they are ready to grind.

9/1/2010 8:21:13 AM

Trinity River Bottom

james what is your favorite hot pepper to use? are which ones do you normally grow?

9/1/2010 8:22:56 AM

Trinity River Bottom

big bear i'm not sure it is cheaper than buying them unless you grow lots of peppers. pepper seed can be hard to germinate they can take weeks on some varieties . other sprought in a couple days. the main thing for me you get the satisfaction of growing your own from what you saved.

9/1/2010 8:33:41 AM

Rochester, Minnesota

kirk, I grow lots of peppers with an emphasis on giants of course. In this case, I grow some really giant bell peppers such as yellow monster and the like.

For hots, I grow cayenne, lemon drop, poblano, jalapeno, and a few others that I would have to check the tags to remember. I have about 12 varieties of peppers in the garden this year.

9/1/2010 9:12:22 AM

Trinity River Bottom

james i guess you do your own pollinating on your giant peppers? that is tedious work! that is cool though never thought about growing giant peppers . NO!! NOT ANOTHER PROJECT!!!

9/1/2010 9:31:42 AM

Rochester, Minnesota

What I do is put either a screened box over the plant to keep the seeds pure, or wrap the female flower in a small amount of remay blanket. Both will keep the bugs away. Of course I only do that when I really want seeds.

In general peppers are wind pollinated, and all you need do is keep the bugs away.

9/3/2010 1:58:06 PM

Alabama

Thanks kirk! seed came today.

9/13/2010 6:53:04 PM