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How can I get some pequin in my life?

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csice

I have never had one. I have tried and failed at growing them. I love Cholula but there don't seem to be many other options for hot sauces that are highly regarded. I have checked the hot pepper awards(The Fat Cat sauces don't appeal too much, I don't care for papaya). I also tried to grow some fatali and failed but I was able to find a site that shipped some to me fresh, but I can't seem to find pequin since they aren't very rare or super hot. I feel like I will really enjoy them and would like to add them to my chili recipe and perhaps some salsa. 
 
So, are there any really good sauces that use primarily pequin? Also, is there any place I can buy them fresh online?
 
csice said:
I have never had one. I have tried and failed at growing them. I love Cholula but there don't seem to be many other options for hot sauces that are highly regarded. I have checked the hot pepper awards(The Fat Cat sauces don't appeal too much, I don't care for papaya). I also tried to grow some fatali and failed but I was able to find a site that shipped some to me fresh, but I can't seem to find pequin since they aren't very rare or super hot. I feel like I will really enjoy them and would like to add them to my chili recipe and perhaps some salsa. 
 
So, are there any really good sauces that use primarily pequin? Also, is there any place I can buy them fresh online?
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I always use a handful of pequin when I make my New Mexican red chile sauce. My recipe is under cooking with fire, and new mexican food. I don't now of any commercial options though. You could always grow your own, then dry them. They sell for dirt cheap, dried, in southern NM.
 
I have been making this easy to do Cholula-style hot sauce this past year using my dried de Arbol and Pequins and it is really close knock-off. Tastes great!

https://katroserichards.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/homemade-hot-sauce-similar-to-cholula/

You will be surprised how close this recipe is to the real thing. I thicken with xanthum gum to get the correct pour rate out of the woozy with reducer.

Question is, why can't you grow Pequins? What is the matter?
 
Home Depot by me had a few pequins a year ago. I bought two plants (I had been looking for these for over a year before this). Have a bunch of seeds from them (not isolated, just natural pollination)
 
They also had chilis de arbol (yellow)
 
I've let the plants go [die] this year, but I have seeds for whenever I feel like growing them again, or searching for phenotypes (hoping for good f2's)... hoping, but not worrying.
 
Thanks for the suggestions so far. I'm just not very good at growing things. I tried to do all the right things. I started using those jiffy pucks but didn't start early enough. Last year I just used solo cups with holes on the bottom but not one germinated. I don't know if it was too cool in the basement or what the deal was. Now of course I haven't thought of it til now and it is too late. I wish I could find a plant rather than from seed, I had never really tried to grow anything before my first attempt.
 
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