Finally got my first ripe cayenne.
I have been eating green ones but finally got a red one. Please share your opinion on the best time to eat these very hot cayennes, and why.
The skin is definitely softening up already so I feel maybe I should have picked it 1 day earlier.
I am pretty...
I thought that seeds from freshly dried pods were the best for germination because you know the age and they are not too old. My Jamaican hot chocolate seeds never germinated last year and apparently no one else's did either from the same company. They said they were probably to old but maybe...
Just to be clear the second post of the plant with the purple skinny peppers and wilting leaves is Thai, and not the plant in question. I will update this later after I do a side by side tasting and get a photo with a side by side comparison.
Sweetish flavor, with less heat than my Cayennes ( which are very hot for cayennes). But they are less hot than the thai chiles. They are definitely slightly fatter than my thai chiles. I don't have a side by side shot but they might be 1.5 times wider than thai chiles and about 1/4 to 1/2...
I grew chiles from seeds from pods which I got at the local farmers market. Unfortunately the types of seeds got mixed together. I grew these last year and this year thinking that they were just some hybrid of my thai chiles, because some developed some purple on them like the thai's. They...
My cayennes look exactly like that, except slightly bigger though its hard to tell without some reference. They should be quite hot if you kept those leaves tacoing like that for that past couple months. Especially after traveling. Talk about stress.
But I must say, I know its late but I...
I have holes in my purple thai chiles. I have over a hundred purple pods poking through the foliage. Today when I was examining my plants I noticed two interior peppers that are not quite purple yet have already started to turn red while none of the others have. I then noticed that these...
Chocolate Bhut X Yellow 7
Habalokia Chocolate
Chocolate Scorpion
Douglah X Butch T (brown)
Fatalii X Viper
Brazilian Pumpkin
C. Galapagoense
Naga X Congo
Not sure if I made the cut. Thanks anyway. Everyone on this site is so nice.
-Casper