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Your garage is full of bags of soil, compost, stones, chips, fertilizer 2 months before the start of your grow season. At the same time you're trimming and overwintering, repotting and preparing the older peppers for the coming season so that they flower in late spring. If you go to a local...

The good old fashioned Serrano is always nice to chop up in some salsa. 

I don't know if they exist!   I really hope they do, or there is something similar. Can anyone suggest a pepper with a similar flavor to the serrano, but YELLOW? That would be interesting. I would think maybe the Aji family? 

I did the same thing. Ended up with many 7 pot browns, reds, 7 pot red, Scorpions etc... They were nice to give away and as a talking point, but I doubt I ate more than a handful of them. Just way too hot. I do find the yellow 7 pot and brainstrains to be actually nice and tasty - very very hot...

All the staff at the local nursery know you by your first name and they've all received bags of your peppers to try. You sit back and think how it would be if you had 100 million and 100 acres with helpers and every variety there is. With scientists to help you to clone, cross-breed and produce...

Very nice looking plant and pods! It really is a great pepper. 

I've never tried the chiltepin. Another one now for my list... :)

The Chilhuacle dries out very nicely. It has a thin wall and once it is dry, I crush it up or grate it into a powder and dry it a bit further in a dehydrator. I use the flakes/powder over the winter in many foods. It has an amazing smokey flavor, quite unique. The smokey flavor remains once dry...

It doesn't produce that many pods. You are right. I wonder how to feed it so that it produces more. I always worry about feeding as I don't want to overdo it.

I have some Carolina Reapers that are getting pods now. Will take a photo in the next week or two. 

You find pepper seeds in your wallet... and then grow them.

What is the most smokey flavor pepper? I would say perhaps the Chilhuacle:     Or the Pasilla?     The Chilhuacle produces amazingly smokey pods. They are very mild, but the smokiness is amazing. Have any of you had experience with these?

This is the best one I've ever eaten. It is a 7 pot brain yellow. Delicious tropical flavor, citrus, amazing color - very very hot!   

I have been growing these peppers in Cape Town, South Africa.      Bhut - thin variant of the Bhut. This is a super hot one. It is much thinner than the regular bhuts, almost looks like a cayenne. I have made the mistake of putting these in a curry, thinking they were cayennes. The plant is an...

Here my 7 pot brain strain yellow? It has a delicious citrus, tropical  taste and super hot! The best tasting super hot I've tried. I have been growing this one for 2 years now and it is finally producing very nice pods. It is very wrinkly like a brain strain. Can you confirm that this is the...

It is about 26 - 30 degrees C in December. In Jan and Feb it gets to about 30 - 35. In winter it gets to a low of about 10 -15, very rarely in the single digits (celcius).    I can overwinter most of the plants. Most of the ones in the photos are 2-3 years old. 

Here is my pepper garden in Cape Town, South Africa. It is summer now, so every plant is flourishing. I also have another small garden at another location directly in the ground. I've spent a small fortune on pots, organic potting mix, worm castings, bat guano, perlite, volcanic dust and other...

It is a very nice plant. I have taken seeds from it and have grown a few new ones. The pods come out the same as this one. Very nice looking! It is extremely hot - even my gums hurt when I eat it. The plant is about 30cm tall and about 40cm in diameter yet produces about 300 pods over a summer! ...

I have had this plant for about 2 years now. The peppers are incredibly hot. I suspect it is a Bhut or similar. To many they look like a normal wrinkly cayenne, but once they taste it, after they stop crying, they say it is insanely hot and definitely not a cayenne. It is quite a talking point...

I stay in Cape Town and grow all mine in large pots. I grow another patch of the same peppers at another location. It is amazing to see the differences in pot vs ground grown.    Jalapenos (8 in the ground, 3-4 in pots): Pot: Doing okay, but nothing spectacular Ground: Flourishing like weeds and...