Hey everyone it's Ryan in Seattle. This has been my first year growing hot peppers, and so far i think i am doing pretty well. I love cooking with hot peppers, but $10.00/lb for the same ol varieties at the grocery store is no fun! so i decided to give it a shot and fell in love! Due to the mild climate where i live, i started everything from seeds indoors. i bought some inexpensive hungarian hot wax and jalapeno seeds from the local store and started them off just to make sure i wasnt wasting my money getting into this hobby, everything started nicely. then i bought some golden habs, bishops crown, and charlston hot pepper seeds online. They took forever to pop out of the soil, and i almost gave up but then they surprised me! I kind of got lazy with these new guys and one day it was super hot and most of the leaves wilted and fried off before i noticed. LUCKILY, with a little TLC i was able to nurse them back to health and they quickly sprouted some new leaves as if nothing was wrong! Anyway, i am glad to have found this site and hope that the collective knowlege here will lead to a successful harvest of delicious hot peppers for years to come.
(p.s) i ate my first home grown hot wax pepper today, still green, but tasty and spicy.. I read that the plant will use nutrients to start more flowers if you try to harvest early or as they ripen. (is this true)?
-Ryan
(p.s) i ate my first home grown hot wax pepper today, still green, but tasty and spicy.. I read that the plant will use nutrients to start more flowers if you try to harvest early or as they ripen. (is this true)?
-Ryan