This is my second year attempting to growing peppers.
Last year, battling the usual mix of poor UK weather, less than perfect attendance/care and limited space gave me enough peppers to keep me going but not the success I was expecting. However now I have a bit of experience, I have high hopes for this year.
In terms of selection, while I love some of the really hot peppers, I really can't get through many of them (I do not intend on scortching myself to look hard) so I thought I'd go for some of the milder exotic varieties that I can literally eat off the bush. Most of friends won't go near the hotter varieties, so I want to grow mainly the more accessable kinds.
With that said, upon ordering a pack of Cheiro Roxa from refining chilies, they also sent me 3 other superhots that I simply must try as well - Trinidad Moruga Scorpian, Butch T Scorpian and the infamous Carolina Reaper!!!
Many thanks to refining chillies, don't know if that was a mistake or not but I'm one happy customer.
That was the original plan... then I got carried away....
So here's what I'm growing:
Chinense (mostly Habs) in increasing heat order:
Grenada Seasoning (ebay) (~500 SHU)
Trinidad Perfume (ebay) (~500 SHU)
Sweet Datil (ebay) (<1000 SHU)
Aji Dulce (ebay) (<1000 SHU)
Apricot Hab (seaspring seeds) (700 SHU)
Aji Panca (ebay) (1000-1500 SHU)
Trinidad Scorpian Sweet (chillies-on-the-web (guess 10-50K SHU)
Cheiro Roxa (Refining Fire Chilies) (guess 20-50K SHU)
Aji Limo (Seaspring Seeds) (35,000 SHU)
Datil Orange (Nicky's Nursery) (100-300K SHU)
Fatalii Yellow (nicky's Nursery) (125-400K SHU)
Peruvian White Habanero (ebay) (200-300K SHU)
Brown Habanero (Haddons) (300-500K SHU)
Bacatums
Aji Dedo de Moca (1000-1500 SHU)
Aji Amarillo (ebay) (30-40K SHU)
Aji Omnicolour (Nicky's Nursery) (30-50K SHU)
Aji Limon (ebay) (50-100K SHU)
Annuums
Poblano (Nicky's Nursery) (1000-1500 SHU)
Yellow wax (supermarket) (2-5K SHU)
Superhots
Naga Morich (Bangladeshi market on Whitechapel road) (~1M SHU)
Trinidad Scorpian Butch T (Refining Fire Chilies) (1-1.4M SHU)
Trinidad Moruga Scorpian (Refining Fire Chilies) (1.2-2M SHU)
Carolina Reaper (Refining Fire Chilies) (average 1.6M SHU)
....and I've just realised I'm gonna run into problems when these things get big!
Last year, battling the usual mix of poor UK weather, less than perfect attendance/care and limited space gave me enough peppers to keep me going but not the success I was expecting. However now I have a bit of experience, I have high hopes for this year.
In terms of selection, while I love some of the really hot peppers, I really can't get through many of them (I do not intend on scortching myself to look hard) so I thought I'd go for some of the milder exotic varieties that I can literally eat off the bush. Most of friends won't go near the hotter varieties, so I want to grow mainly the more accessable kinds.
With that said, upon ordering a pack of Cheiro Roxa from refining chilies, they also sent me 3 other superhots that I simply must try as well - Trinidad Moruga Scorpian, Butch T Scorpian and the infamous Carolina Reaper!!!
Many thanks to refining chillies, don't know if that was a mistake or not but I'm one happy customer.That was the original plan... then I got carried away....
So here's what I'm growing:
Chinense (mostly Habs) in increasing heat order:
Grenada Seasoning (ebay) (~500 SHU)
Trinidad Perfume (ebay) (~500 SHU)
Sweet Datil (ebay) (<1000 SHU)
Aji Dulce (ebay) (<1000 SHU)
Apricot Hab (seaspring seeds) (700 SHU)
Aji Panca (ebay) (1000-1500 SHU)
Trinidad Scorpian Sweet (chillies-on-the-web (guess 10-50K SHU)
Cheiro Roxa (Refining Fire Chilies) (guess 20-50K SHU)
Aji Limo (Seaspring Seeds) (35,000 SHU)
Datil Orange (Nicky's Nursery) (100-300K SHU)
Fatalii Yellow (nicky's Nursery) (125-400K SHU)
Peruvian White Habanero (ebay) (200-300K SHU)
Brown Habanero (Haddons) (300-500K SHU)
Bacatums
Aji Dedo de Moca (1000-1500 SHU)
Aji Amarillo (ebay) (30-40K SHU)
Aji Omnicolour (Nicky's Nursery) (30-50K SHU)
Aji Limon (ebay) (50-100K SHU)
Annuums
Poblano (Nicky's Nursery) (1000-1500 SHU)
Yellow wax (supermarket) (2-5K SHU)
Superhots
Naga Morich (Bangladeshi market on Whitechapel road) (~1M SHU)
Trinidad Scorpian Butch T (Refining Fire Chilies) (1-1.4M SHU)
Trinidad Moruga Scorpian (Refining Fire Chilies) (1.2-2M SHU)
Carolina Reaper (Refining Fire Chilies) (average 1.6M SHU)
....and I've just realised I'm gonna run into problems when these things get big!
