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  Do you want Nagas?  Because we have Nagas...lots of them (Morich)   I'm not even kidding.  Nagas.   My first Brazilian Starfish is ready!   More Carolina Reapers than you can weep into your pillow to.   A ripe 7 Pod Primo   Non-chile, the tomato pull this morning: Lemon Boys, Early Girls...

That took me a second but... damn.  I'd have accidentally watered your plants, if you know what I mean...

Some weekend pictures from this morning before it got too hot out.   Hidden heat: Trinidad Scorpion Moruga.  There are over 50 pods on this plant alone but most of them are under the foliage.     A very loaded 7 Pot Jonah     Typical phenotype Yellow Brain Strain (and large)     BRAINSSSSSSS...

I'm wondering if you took Christmas silver tinsel and tied it around pods at their stem loosely if it would be effective?

Looking really good!

My mom hangs foil pie pans around her garden and they seem to keep most of the birds away for some reason.  I have no idea if there is any true merit to the idea.

If it was hot but didn't feel like you stopped a train with your face it's probably not a Reaper. Even the guys with a high heat tolerance visibly suffer when taking on a Reaper. Did it taste good?

I'm putting my money on red habanero.

I haven't had time to do much more than water the garden and do some mini harvests for friends and family.  Everything continues to do really well even with these exceptionally high temperatures here in Central Florida: averaging 97'F all week and we haven't had a speck of rain for over a week...

Your plants are doing amazing.

The only C. frutescens I've ever grown was a red tabasco which was  extremely prolific in producing pods but did not have much culinary use fresh or dried.  Fresh they have an extremely sharp bite and high acid; they're also particularly seedy.  I've still got a gallon freezer bag full of pods...

Not my first pods of the season, but the first proper group harvest.  I'm mailing this AGONY BOX off to my friend today:  

I pulled a small harvest this morning to  drop in a SFRB to a friend in North Carolina, whether he will be my friend after he receives the contents of the box remains to be seen...     Clockwise from the top-left:  - 7 Pot Brain Strain Yellow (3)  - Trinidad Scorpion (7)  - Jalapeño (2)...

In my case the superhot skew started when I grew Red Bhuts (at the time to me, the infamous "ghost chili") for the first year.  My garden only had a few standard chile varieties at the time so this was truly exotic for me.  I ended up really liking the flavor of the bhuts and despite having 4...

As I mentioned above, my garden leaned a lot more towards superhots this year through a combination of choice and coincidence.  I had a variety of overwinters that included things like Aleppos, multiple Jalapeño varieties, Red Cherry Bomb, Cowhorns and even two very large Kung Paos.  Almost all...

  Interesting cross potential.  I'm wondering if I can possibly cross a Golden Cayenne with a Bishop's Crown and get something that has elements of the flavor and shape of the Crown and the sweetness and citrus of the Golden Cayenne.  That to me would be an amazing cross, not for heat, but for...

This is the first year I'll have some C. baccatum producing for me in the form of Bishop's Crowns and Brazilian Starfish.  I'm really looking forward to them. I have several Aji varieties at seedling stage but even with our longer season down in Central Florida I doubt they'll make it to a...

It's ripening like a Hungarian Wax Pepper, similar shape too.  They are not all that hot.

Superhots, it's why you got in to chile growing, right?   It starts with a few jalapenos and perhaps a habanero, but then you discover that there are peppers out there orders of magnitude hotter than these and you feel compelled to grow them and try them.  I mean, you aren't really a chile...

I can only hope my Aji Amarillos will get that big.  Impressive pods.