Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
✅ Expert and friendly hot pepper grow advice.
✅ The latest information on hot pepper varieties.
✅ Reliable seed trading.
✅ Hot sauce recipes and food safety guidance.
✅ Hot sauce business tips for startups.
🌶️ And more! It's all here, at The Hot Pepper! The Internet's original hot pepper community! Est. 2004.
I have two Datil plants that are about 4 years old now. They are about 3 feet tall and about as wide. They are good peppers habanero like heat and nice flavor. My plants produce tons. Way more than I can use. I make pineapple and peach sauces with them everyone at my work loves. I've made corn...
Oh they definitely seem to prefer the Serrano over the Datil. The Ghost had way less than the Datil too. The mystery pepper had a fair amount on but its nowhere near as healthy as the 4 year old Datil or Serrano plants. Only 5 pods on it compared to the hundreds on the other plants. Its...
Yeah definitely see if we can get them added to the other pictures. That would be great!
This particular plant is in the ground growing away from all my other plants, growing where my tomato plants were until a hail storm killed them. Honestly I'm not sure what it is, I planted all super hots...
Thanks! Believe it or not these were taken with my Galaxy Nexus!
Well I got to looking at the Serranno and there were lots of peppers damaged in splotches like the article I found on Google described. I even found a few of them with their feeding tubes in the peppers so unfortunately they were...
Well I did some googling. Seems they are stink bugs and they are bad news. I just looked a little more and my serranno is seriously infested with them. Which makes sense since they are the "juiciest" of the peppers I have. According to what I was reading the smaller ones are in the nymph stage...
Some of my Ghosts are showing signs of somthing eating them, like little round holes chewed into some. Not many though and I haven't observed any of these guys doing it and with as many as there is not many peppers are damaged.
Hey guys I was wondering if any of you know what these are and if they are bad. All of my pepper plants are covered in them. I don't want to kill them if they are beneficial but there are so many I'm worred as to what they actually are! There are literally hundreds of them spread among my 6...
Last month I had a rabbit problem in my garden. They kept eating my corn sprouts and other stuff as they were coming out of the ground. So I ground up a bunch of dried Bhuts and sprinkled all over the garden. For 4 days I could not understand why the soles of my feet were on fire. I was like WTF...
I've managed to keep the frost from killing off my plants so far this winter. Luckily it has been really mild here in North East Florida. I got a great haul of Datil, a few Ghost and a few Serrano as well.
A few Datil's think they are Scorpions lol
Sweet thanks guys, you're right they do really look like caribbean red's. I'm waiting on my Serrano's and Bhut's to ripen. I have a bunch of Datil waiting for me to eat or create something with. Now some of these to add to the mix :D
I moved out of Florida for a while. While I was gone my dad took it upon himself to keep growing peppers for me even though he doesn't eat them. He grew these and has no idea what they are. I can say they are pretty dang hot. Not quite Bhut hot but definitely will give a good strong hab a run...
Ok well I wanted to update you guys on the mystery pepper. It is most definitely a hybrid, I'd say. One ripened up and I tried it out. The skin had spines on it like Bhut's and was soft thin walls. Very very aromatic and sweet flavor. The heat was intense. I eat a habanero everyday with my lunch...