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I joined this forum 10 years ago.  I stopped using The Hot Pepper because it was impossible to load photos.  I need help identifying peppers and I can find absolutely no directions for how to post any media, at least not without having to buy software to resize everything.  Could somebody please...

I have three plants which I bought as seedlings and I believe they were mislabeled.  They are supposed to be a Carolina Reaper, Naga Viper, and Trinidad Scorpion (unspecified sub cultivar), but some of them do not look right.  I'm pretty sure that the "Trinadad Scorpion" is in fact correctly...

It's getting towards the end of the season here in Michigan and I've got peppers in various stages of ripeness. I need to get all the fully ripe peppers off of the plants in order to ripen the green ones. Specifically, I'm doing this with my Tabascos and cayenne chilies. I want to make...

Due to an issue with blossom end rot, I've picked a couple dozen green cayenne chilies from my plants in order to prevent them from succumbing to the rot. Based on my past experience I/m fairly certain that they are full size, however they are all completely green. I know they can turn red at...

Due to very heavy rain and a potential calcium issue, I picked a couple dozen of my best cayenne chilies to save them from blossom end rot, which many of the chilies on my plants have been experiencing. I only picked the ones that had reached what is typically full size (based on the last time...

I need some help! I’m growing cayenne peppers (labeled as the “long slim” variety) in pots and some of them are starting to go bad on the plant! I live in Michigan (Detroit area) and we had a very unusually wet and cool spring followed by a hot dry summer. I waited out the wet stuff to plant...

I was wondering if anyone has experience canning whole jalapeños. I've been canning jalapeño rings for a few years now. I pack the rings in jars with a few garlic slivers, fill then with a simple brine (4 cups H2O:1 cup white vinegar:1/4 cup canning salt), and process for 15-20 minutes in a...

I’ve got a lot of Scotch bonnets from my garden and I really need some sauce recipes. I’ve scoured the web and the two main types of sauce recipes based on scotch bonnets. One is cut with fruit like mangoes or pineapples (Trinidad style?) and the other is mixed with mustard (Barbados style?)...

Hello everybody. I’m Nayef and I’m new to this site. I’m from Michigan, just outside of Detroit. I’ve always loved hot food and hot sauce. For the past four summers I’ve grown gardens (in spite of the wild Michigan weather) with several varieties of hot peppers. Now I bring in pretty good...