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This is a long term project with the (probably futile but still fun) goal of improving upon the best tasting and looking pepper to my taste - the Bahamian Goat.  Lots of interesting variations with this F2 set of around 25 plants. Most produce red peppers of various sizes and shapes, but a pic...

Hey folks, I hope that you're all enjoying the holidays. Long time member and grower but no messages for a while... but I got something interesting for you.   I started with Joe E Parker and Chinese 5 colour. Got the F1 hybrid easily, then from there it has been hand pollination with pollen the...

I dried some Bahamian goat, yellow bhut and chocolate bhut peppers, which were grown under identical conditions and tested them.   Here are pics of the peppers from another thread:   http://thehotpepper.com/topic/21897-winter-summer-in-oz-comparison-aussie-blabberers/?p=1117901   Here are the...

The peduncle is the part that attaches the flower/fruit to the stem.   Can your low hanging fruit beat those from my giant rocoto x brown rocoto F1 hybrid?    Just to prove that this isn't a one off, here are three pods on the same plant.    

A lazy 38 °C late spring day in Canberra feels like a good one to make a start on a glog! This is my 5th season of more serious pepper growing,. since the addiction really took hold.   This year I will put more peppers in the ground, and keep less in pots. Everything still growing in pots at the...

A very late start for a glog! Better late than never, I guess. We are overwhelmed with pods. Here are my current top 3 chinense favourites, photos taken late this afternoon:   At number 3 - chocolate bhuts   Yellow Jonahs at number 2:   Bahamian Goats at number 1: Most photogenic annuum:

This patent shows that it can be done! http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20100058494

...stuff them with cream cheese and ham and bake until soft     You won't believe how good they taste!

We are having a great season for rocoto/manzano peppers this year. It is mid-summer and we have been enjoying fresh ripe rocoto/manzano peppers almost constantly since mid-winter but we're now starting to get overwhelmed! I usually leave the pods on the plant until we need them but a recent heat...

Just heard about this gizmo.   http://www.isis-innovation.com/news/SingaporeCompanyManufacturesOxfordChilli.html   I don't know more than is written in this press release but I have asked for information about it. Will post an update when I hear back from these guys.  

Thanks to forum members for their helpful comments on an earlier thread. Here is a more extensive analysis on powdered pods, with a Scoville value.   Here is how the analyses were done: the fresh picked ripe peppers were cut in half and oven dried to constant weight at 50 °C in an oven. The...

We just did an analysis of the capsaicin content of a fresh Jonah pod (seeds from Semillas) and a fresh TS Butch T pod (seeds from Hippy Seed Co) from plants grown side-by-side. Here are some initial observations:   the Butch T pod has a slightly higher total capsaicin content than the Jonah...

I bought seeds June last year from Peter at Semillas La Palma. I have ordered from Peter before and always have had excellent turnaround and service and the value for money is outstanding. Germination rates very good and all other varieties that I have bought from Peter (and that is a lot!) so...

The glossy, conical pods on my beautiful Czech Black plants are ripening nicely, from black to scarlet. When eaten straight off the plant and young, the developing black pods have only a little heat but when full sized and black, the pods are quite spicy. Nothing too surprising so far. Here's...