Last year was my first season growing. I ordered seeds from Jimmy Pickles. The Caribbean Red habanero seeds he sent got crazy big. Very happy he isolates so you know what you're getting.
Your peppers are lovely. I have also been picking peppers and dehydrating. Makes the house smell delicious. Thank you for all your encouragement. I grew 7 wonderful varieties for the first time growing more than Bell and Jalapeno. Thanks again.
That’s what I’m dreaming about… Peppers- look at the beautiful colors, shapes, textures and varieties… Well done Pepper Geeks… Keep up your passion… it’s catchy… 🐸
Well done fellow geeks! My harvest is just starting. Got one ripe ghost and one ripe reaper so far. Process start to finish was based off your videos. Thanks!
Cheers from Spain! Just a minor correction piquillo de Lodosa is a variety from lodosa, Navarra in Spain. This pepper it’s quite appreciated and it has it’s own designation of origin. Keep the good work!
@@PepperGeek almost had a heart attack when you said Italy 😂. Other Spanish peppers you should try to grow are Choricero/Txorixero, Tap de corti, Najerano pepper, Llarg (pronounced Yarg), Cristal pepper, D'espelette pepper, Ñora, Gundillas de Tolosa, and Padron.
What a great collection of all kinds of peppers! Despite our horrible weather here all summer you did very well. The Santaka, you said it is an Annum but the pods are sticking up, that is how Frutescens grow.
It's amazing my wife and I grew a pepper this year that you didn't show here. It's a purple ghost scorpion. Very pretty plant and our strongest. Well over 2 or 3 dozen peppers so far! Thanks for all the insight you post and congrats on that harvest!!
Sweet i saw these on Etsy website they were seling the seeds i think they are beautiful i have 3 kinds of dark purple peppers but they turn red when ripe..the Count Dracula , the Atomic and this other one i have we take inside for the winter the the bark is a little like wood it looks like the Purple Delight the peppers just a smidj like 2-3 milimetres bigger and pointy...hope to find what it is one day my hubby had it before i came into the picture and he had it as a present with no info on it..cheers
I would like to give you an award for knowing each & everyone of these peppers AND then being able to pronounce so many of these. And, you did it seemingly so effortlessly 👏👏👏 👌. It is Sept. 5th and I still do not have one big tomato variety that has ripened.😠. Have plenty of cherry tomatoes. Farmer’s Almanac predicts out 1st frost date to be between Sept 9th to the 20th 😱 My pepper plants however have done fantastic…most of them in pots. First year for trying Sugar Rush Peach. It’s very prolific…I quit counting when I got to 50! However, they are still yellow…not one peach colored one, yet. So anxious. I live in southern Vermont, so guessing have had the same odd weather as you. What a summer.
I grew sugar rush peach last year and again this year. Very prolific but slow to color. The flavor is meh when yellow, so wait for the peach color. I made a batch of hot sauce (quick, not fermented) with all SRP and was surprised by the horseradish-esque flavor. My husband hasn’t tasted it yet. He’s not a fan of horseradish at all so I am curious if he will like the hot sauce. P.S. I will probably just compost any fruits that don’t ripen by frost. I don’t care for the flavor of the chile powder from the yellow fruits.
I grew the aji charapita pepper as well this year and my favorite use for them so far has been making spicy fruity pepper honey and I plan to make pepper jelly with them shortly.
@@PepperGeek this is my first year trying it but I put ~35 of the small peppers per 15 ounces of honey in the bottom of a slow cooker and smashed them up to release the flavor and juices and added honey and ran it on high for about 20 minutes stirring constantly then strained back into the glass container. Finding this recipe that I modified is the reason I plan to overwinter this pepper and grow a few other fruity peppers to make different flavored/spice leveled honey next year. As for dried peppers I'm not sure. If you ground the dried peppers I'm sure it will work but I don't think you'll get the consistent fruity taste that I got in my attempt. It's definitely worth trying because pepper honey is my new favorite thing and something everyone should try
Hey! What do you think of making a list of all the peppers you guys tasted with ratings and flavor profiles?!? This would help a lot for the next season 😊 Keep it up!
Since your in zone 6 and I am too I will use your videos to get me idea what I need to do that week. Thanks guys! Now need to follow you on your other channel.
Thank You: I too purchase Fresno Peppers in the grocery store. They were simply labeled "Red Peppers" and I have been searching for more information about them, because they were prolific seed starts. Germination was at least 90% and are by far the biggest and fastest growing of all the varieties I have started this season. Now that I have a name I can find out more.
I'm so happy to have found you guys i've been growing peppers for 6 years now but its my first year having a stall at the Farmer's market didn't make a hole lot of money well more like being à little under but it was super fun and i'm in for next year with my prices higher and better understanding of the biseness side of things .. i have about 25 kinds of peppers from the monkey face to the petter pepper , lol chocolat habanero to scorpion trinidad anaheims hot Portugal bishop's crown etc... i didn't know the're was a community of pepper lovers or a pepper geek i'm 55 and my family think's it's weird accept my hubby who got me started 6 years ago i love it ...i have a green thumb been gardening for 35 years but never hot peppers because of the climate where i lived but since i moved in with the hubby well its 2 zones hotter from before so the peppers are so happy. But i don't know much about hot peppers so so happy to be here will be marathon watching all your YT vids ... thanks
Thanks for the tour I got some peppers that weren’t properly listed now I know their name .And yes sell seeds love to see like a intro to pepper seed kit that’d be awesome.I’d be great especially for people who live in places where peppers aren’t exactly easy to grow.
For some reason in 9b Sacramento I have had no luck with my hot peppers this year. Great year for green and red bell peppers but no production/flowers/pollination of habanero or jalapeño. Probably will start from seed in December for hot peppers and overwinter my best bell pepper plants. Thanks for the cool vid, you grew a lot of nice peppers.
I really wish you mentioned the taste descriptors for all the plants, its nice to get a personal opinion on flavour profiles. Great video still... thankyou
Your lucky, this year here was almost always ruined by rains, I harvested only 30/40 on 10 plants! Now the sun is back hope to have a great autumn to have a bit more! Usually I had a bit more of 2 kilos on 3 plants…😭
Sounds like you are also from europe? Im from germany, same thing for me. Im a beginner in Peppers. I got a lot Peppers on my Plants, but they gotta turn red soon hopefully!!!
@@AuangelLP Hello, yes from french part of Switzerland not to far from Basel. For me is depends the plants, my 3 littles birds thai chili peppers have a lots on them and already approximatively 10 chili turns red a week and i should have 750gr at the end ( normaly on them i have nearly 1500 chilis), but on my old habaneros ( 3 plants of 3 years old ) i already harvest maybe only 20 and i will have maybe 60 more, when the same give me last year nearly 500. on this year the young habaneros plants will have maybe 5 - 10 if im lucky!
@@olioli6165 wow thats Not a lot compared to your Last years. Looks Like we didnt have the best Chili year with all the Rain and the cold start of the year
@@AuangelLP Yes, and im lucky because they're all in a pots on wheels where i can move then under the roof when is raining too much, but we had nearly no sun and a boring cloudy weather. hope that the next few week will be great.
We do a lot of dehydrating because after the peppers are ground into powder, they take up a lot less space. We also do a lot of pickling, fermenting and experimenting with hot sauces.
So many amazing looking Chilli. I bought a Fresno Chilli from a garden centre while the plant was productive I did not think much of it, a rather bland Chilli.
I saved seeds from a delicious fruity fresno I got last summer at the farmers market. Its children this summer were yummy. However, I was highly disappointed with the jalapeno seeds I bought at the store. I wanted something that the whole family would enjoy as poppers but with some heat. I think they were mislabeled nadapenos.
@@davidwardrop9214 It’s a jalapeno where the heat has been bred out of it. Nada+(jala)peno = not a hot jalapeno. Anaheims are a different shape I think.
Really like your program. That's a lot of peppers!! How do you process so many. Do can, pickle, dry, (can you freeze them?).....? I'd like to try the sugar rush stripy..........
I have some cayenne peppers that don’t look and grow like cayennes, but that’s what they were labeled as. They almost look like small Fresno peppers that grew straight up.
This is my first year to grow peppers, and I don’t even know what to do with them. I made some Aji pineapple hot sauce, and some sugar rush peach jelly, but still have tons of Anaheim and sugar rush cream and habanada coming on. It’s so fun, but stressful to use/preserve them! We’ve given away over 1/2 of our peppers just for fear of letting them go to waste. 🤪
That is always part of our technique too, giving them away to people! Freezing is great to keep them for future sauces and cooking/stir fry, dehydrating is good for powders/rubs
Hi Pepper Geek, Habanero is a great hot Pepper, but for me Jamaican Scothch Bonnet is mine preferd, if you want to try something hoter,tasty and much fragrance,Try Naga Salmone.Carolina ripper is better like extracted oil
@@PepperGeek I live i n north Italy and the climate is not such god for groving hot peppers i do it for my pleasure and share it with friends,i'not a farrner i do it for pleasure in a small garden. Glad to find yor channel and wish you all the best
I hear the little yellow ones are the most expensive pepper in the world by wieght. Remember to wash your hands before you go to the bathroom, lol. Wow you the man, I died and went to pepper heaven.
I love your channel! Started gardening this year and had a successfully harvest of jalapeños, habaneros, ghost peppers, Thai chili’s, and Carolina reapers (none grown from seed). Our hot sauces have come out Amazing! You guys are an inspiration! Where do you get your seeds from to grow these beautiful peppers?
That is great to hear! Glad you've enjoyed our channel. We buy from a variety of sources - here is a short list of some of our faves: peppergeek.com/buy-pepper-seeds-online
your prized plant is smaller than my smallest plant. and i planted 30 peppers too. my smallest and most neglected are still 3 ft tall and products at least 50 pods so far . my good plants have produced over 100 pods easy
Usually starts around this time and then we get continued harvests through October until it frosts. Some types started much earlier, and a few plants haven't produced any ripe pods yet.
You can isolate portions of the plant as well using a mesh cloth (paint strainer bags or similar). Isolate flowers before they open, then remove the cover once the pods begin to form.
My varieties this year: cayenne, ethiopian brown, ouzbek, calabrese, tehrani, aleppo, buena mulata, big black mama, trinidad moruga scorpion caramel, and carolina reaper. For a first trie we will see...
@@naujgint Hi!! First I am french and here we have NO you tube channel that kind of quality such as the english and american ones. I started my plants with seeds bought on a french site, it looks great but the weather was not fine this year (but there're going on soon!!), and I think I will make oil and hot fermented sauce with that, that will optimise the heat, flavour, conservation and the... valuation (in general) of this kind of bomb. But I experiment it too!! the only choises I could find are these ones, it only matter to be a good, an attentive cook, expecialy to make fermented sauces, but try! So thank you for your question and sorry for my english, I am not used to practicing this language often.
You rock. A question: Is an ornamental considered an ornamental because the pods are so small, and they’re “pretty” to be planted in those applications? Like, constricted growth? I’m a newbie, but I have two Thai Hot Pepper plants sharing the same large pot. The output is incredible…dozens ripening each day and new flowers appearing…and they taste dang good. I guess I’m confused because when I hear “ornamental,” I think for show only and not consumption. I’ve used these with lemon grass and coconut milk to cook mussels, and they give it a nice kick.
Thanks! this is our current recommended grow light/review: peppergeek.com/viparspectra-p1500-led-grow-light-review We also use a Mars Hydro grow tent that does the job: peppergeek.com/mars-hydro-grow-tent-review
A lot of my habanero peppers have had holes near the calyx and like a black caterpillar inside. How do you stop pests from making their home in your peppers?
Caterpillars are tough - you can try to remove them by hand if you notice them on your plants earlier in the season. They seem to attack specific plants in our experience, and avoid others.
Hey! First-time grower here. I have a couple pots of orange habaneros which still flowering but I do have a few fruits. They obviously started out green and went through the awesome transformation of the color and are orange now. However, they became sort of soft to the touch and don't seem crunchy. Is that ok or did I do something wrong? Haven't picked them yet, I'm thinking of doing that soon.
If you leave them for a _long_ long time, they may soften. Some varieties go soft quicker than others like cayennes and thai chilis. Habaneros usually maintain their crunch for quite a while when left on the plant
My local nursery has a limited selection of pepper varieties. What's the best way to get ahold of some of these? Ia there an online store you'd recommend?
@@PepperGeek Great! Thank you for the help! Btw, I have made your habanero hot sauce recipe with Caribbean reds, ghost, and jalapenos. All have turned out excellent! Next go round I'm going to substitute sugar for pineapple and see how it goes!
Help me understand (or a video idea) on how come i can save my hybrid pepper's seeds, and replant them but in things like tomatoes, hybrid seeds lose a lot of their hybrid characteristics. I guess what im asking is how come the perception is keep cool pepper variety seeds and replant them (not clone them) but not generally practiced with other vegetable seeds?
Saving hybrid pepper seeds definitely change characteristics. The early generations of a hybrid will be very unpredictable and varied - tomatoes are also much easier to propagate than peppers, with adventitious roots usually forming within just a few days. I think people like to save pepper seeds just to see what will happen - usually there is no harm unless your goal is disease resistance for large scale farm growing, etc.
We probably will not sell those seeds - they were planted right beside another annuum so there is a decent chance of cross pollination. Here is the official source for seeds! chilepepperinstitute.ecwid.com/NuMex-LotaLutein-p308602183
@@Radi0ActivSquid Yes, pepper seeds keep for a few years as long as they’re stored well (not too wet/hot/light.) Feel free to buy now for next summer’s garden.
Yall should sell seeds!! We love watching your videos you should also write a book with all your knowledge your amazing!
Calm down.
@@alexsemmel1649 lol
Last year was my first season growing. I ordered seeds from Jimmy Pickles. The Caribbean Red habanero seeds he sent got crazy big. Very happy he isolates so you know what you're getting.
They do sell them
@@homerco213just watched a documentary series that included him
Good morning friends 🌱🌶️
Good morning 🌅
Your peppers are lovely. I have also been picking peppers and dehydrating. Makes the house smell delicious. Thank you for all your encouragement. I grew 7 wonderful varieties for the first time growing more than Bell and Jalapeno. Thanks again.
That is great to hear! Thanks for following along
Peachgum Tiger WOW!
You are in for a treat, the sugar rush striped are beautiful. Mine started turning a couple weeks ago and a few are done now. Keep up the good work.
Finally got a few stripeys - posted a few pics on our Instagram. If you have instagram tag your pepper pics with #peppergeek so we can take a look!
That’s what I’m dreaming about… Peppers- look at the beautiful colors, shapes, textures and varieties… Well done Pepper Geeks…
Keep up your passion… it’s catchy… 🐸
Thanks! We may sell some (open pollinated) seeds from them on our website
Well done fellow geeks! My harvest is just starting. Got one ripe ghost and one ripe reaper so far. Process start to finish was based off your videos. Thanks!
Excellent! Hope you get a good take before frost comes
Best part about harvesting peppers is all the different colors
Agreed - so cool to see purple and peaches next to the typical reds and yellows
Cheers from Spain! Just a minor correction piquillo de Lodosa is a variety from lodosa, Navarra in Spain. This pepper it’s quite appreciated and it has it’s own designation of origin. Keep the good work!
Thank you for this, apologies - I should have fact checked this during editing! I'll add a note to the description
@@PepperGeek it’s cool! There’s too many species to have them all track down. Keep the good 👍🏻 work!!
@@PepperGeek almost had a heart attack when you said Italy 😂.
Other Spanish peppers you should try to grow are Choricero/Txorixero, Tap de corti, Najerano pepper, Llarg (pronounced Yarg), Cristal pepper, D'espelette pepper, Ñora, Gundillas de Tolosa, and Padron.
The peter pepper always makes me laugh
Same 😂
I binged watched your videos till 2am a couple days ago, woke up at 8, and started my own little garden (I live in AZ so I think I'll be good)
That is awesome! So glad to hear that - cheers!
How did it go?
@@PepperGeek bije. Diriweli
What a great collection of all kinds of peppers! Despite our horrible weather here all summer you did very well. The Santaka, you said it is an Annum but the pods are sticking up, that is how Frutescens grow.
Eating as i watch; cheddar jalapeno bread topped with salsa and extra old cheddar broiled 5 minutes. Spicy bruschetta.
That sounds delicious!
WOW the colors and shapes.....how fun!!
Every year is a new collection for us - keeps things exciting and interesting :)
7:41 That's the most beautiful pepper plant I've ever seen 😍 I NEED to grow it someday
Black pearl!
@@PepperGeekI'm growing black pearls next year
What a great show! Thank you so much. Great content and encouraging for those of us striving to do as well as you two. What a show!
Love the 7 Pot hoodie! Beautiful garden.
such a tight community, i noticed peppergeek on chilichumps livestream today
😁
Finishing up my final pepper harvest today, definitely watching this to pump me up even more! good work!
Thank you for the great videos! Growing 15 varieties this year myself, and feeling inspired to grow more varieties next season! Cheers from Calgary 🇨🇦
Cheers! We always say we'll downsize to simplify things, but always seem to plant more each year...😅
@@PepperGeek keep it up, I can’t wait to see them grow!!
It's amazing my wife and I grew a pepper this year that you didn't show here. It's a purple ghost scorpion. Very pretty plant and our strongest. Well over 2 or 3 dozen peppers so far! Thanks for all the insight you post and congrats on that harvest!!
Sweet i saw these on Etsy website they were seling the seeds i think they are beautiful i have 3 kinds of dark purple peppers but they turn red when ripe..the Count Dracula , the Atomic and this other one i have we take inside for the winter the the bark is a little like wood it looks like the Purple Delight the peppers just a smidj like 2-3 milimetres bigger and pointy...hope to find what it is one day my hubby had it before i came into the picture and he had it as a present with no info on it..cheers
I would like to give you an award for knowing each & everyone of these peppers AND then being able to pronounce so many of these. And, you did it seemingly so effortlessly 👏👏👏 👌. It is Sept. 5th and I still do not have one big tomato variety that has ripened.😠. Have plenty of cherry tomatoes. Farmer’s Almanac predicts out 1st frost date to be between Sept 9th to the 20th 😱 My pepper plants however have done fantastic…most of them in pots. First year for trying Sugar Rush Peach. It’s very prolific…I quit counting when I got to 50! However, they are still yellow…not one peach colored one, yet. So anxious. I live in southern Vermont, so guessing have had the same odd weather as you. What a summer.
Thank you! That sounds great, glad you are having success with the peppers. Hope the frost holds off a bit longer up there!
I grew sugar rush peach last year and again this year. Very prolific but slow to color. The flavor is meh when yellow, so wait for the peach color. I made a batch of hot sauce (quick, not fermented) with all SRP and was surprised by the horseradish-esque flavor. My husband hasn’t tasted it yet. He’s not a fan of horseradish at all so I am curious if he will like the hot sauce.
P.S. I will probably just compost any fruits that don’t ripen by frost. I don’t care for the flavor of the chile powder from the yellow fruits.
I grew the aji charapita pepper as well this year and my favorite use for them so far has been making spicy fruity pepper honey and I plan to make pepper jelly with them shortly.
Do you dry them and powder them before adding to honey? Sounds delicious.
@@PepperGeek this is my first year trying it but I put ~35 of the small peppers per 15 ounces of honey in the bottom of a slow cooker and smashed them up to release the flavor and juices and added honey and ran it on high for about 20 minutes stirring constantly then strained back into the glass container. Finding this recipe that I modified is the reason I plan to overwinter this pepper and grow a few other fruity peppers to make different flavored/spice leveled honey next year. As for dried peppers I'm not sure. If you ground the dried peppers I'm sure it will work but I don't think you'll get the consistent fruity taste that I got in my attempt. It's definitely worth trying because pepper honey is my new favorite thing and something everyone should try
@@mylesintheap1 Sounds tasty - hopefully we can get around to trying that this year
Looking forward to seeing what you do with the peppers!
Nice peppers! I have a good harvest this year also.
Excellent vid guys, mouth watering.
Thanks 👍
Awesome! My favorites this year are my atomic starfish, komodo dragon, fatali, and my fish
My scotch bonnet plant finally ripened up it's first three peppers. Can't wait to try them on something.
So exciting! I love scotch bonnets for hot sauce or crushed and added to some soup, stew, etc. Also makes great spicy flakes/rub
thanks
You should grow corno di toro peppers as they are HUGE and easy to get your hands on! (:
Wow I’ve definitely gotta get those peachgum peppers. Awesome collection guys!
Really nice to see all the different kinds of peppers! Good videos guys
Agreed!
Glad to have found your site. I like to try a couple of different chillies a year, and it's the fish pepper and purple jalapeno this year.
Awesome pepper video, thank you so much!! 👍👍👍
That is great - thanks, and glad you're doing well too!
Awesome harvest! My eyes are watery just watching it lol
Hey! What do you think of making a list of all the peppers you guys tasted with ratings and flavor profiles?!?
This would help a lot for the next season 😊
Keep it up!
Stunning guys! Thanks to your advice im harvesting ripe Moruga scorpions in the north of the UK. First attemt at superhots from seed.
Awesome! so glad we could help
Since your in zone 6 and I am too I will use your videos to get me idea what I need to do that week. Thanks guys! Now need to follow you on your other channel.
I LOVE that you're rocking Rob's hoodie!
❤️🔥👍🏻
Thanks for the tour and my white bhut julokia peppers are turning red as well, lots of them though 👍
Ah, that's too bad, but I guess that is just part of growing newer crossed varieties. Hope you enjoy them anyway!
Piquillo de Lodosa is actually a Spanish pepper, from Tolosa, Navarra, close to where I’m from, we have really sweet and tasty peppers in this area
Man they all look good and yummy. I got mine in the garden late this year and just now getting some ripe ones
Pepper Abundance! Awesome job.
I'm harvesting everything tomorrow.
Thank You: I too purchase Fresno Peppers in the grocery store. They were simply labeled "Red Peppers" and I have been searching for more information about them, because they were prolific seed starts. Germination was at least 90% and are by far the biggest and fastest growing of all the varieties I have started this season. Now that I have a name I can find out more.
I'm so happy to have found you guys i've been growing peppers for 6 years now but its my first year having a stall at the Farmer's market didn't make a hole lot of money well more like being à little under but it was super fun and i'm in for next year with my prices higher and better understanding of the biseness side of things .. i have about 25 kinds of peppers from the monkey face to the petter pepper , lol chocolat habanero to scorpion trinidad anaheims hot Portugal bishop's crown etc... i didn't know the're was a community of pepper lovers or a pepper geek i'm 55 and my family think's it's weird accept my hubby who got me started 6 years ago i love it ...i have a green thumb been gardening for 35 years but never hot peppers because of the climate where i lived but since i moved in with the hubby well its 2 zones hotter from before so the peppers are so happy. But i don't know much about hot peppers so so happy to be here will be marathon watching all your YT vids ... thanks
That sounds amazing! We would love to have a spot at our local farmer's market some day too.
@@PepperGeek well don't give up i was just lucky right time right place and happy to be here being pepper..hi hi
Thanks for the tour I got some peppers that weren’t properly listed now I know their name .And yes sell seeds love to see like a intro to pepper seed kit that’d be awesome.I’d be great especially for people who live in places where peppers aren’t exactly easy to grow.
Beautiful collection, happy cooking! That 7 pot Bubblegum is serious business I've heard today.
Fantastic video! So many cool varieties, and a very informative video! Thank you
Amazing! Congratulations on a fantastic harvest.
Thank you!
For some reason in 9b Sacramento I have had no luck with my hot peppers this year. Great year for green and red bell peppers but no production/flowers/pollination of habanero or jalapeño. Probably will start from seed in December for hot peppers and overwinter my best bell pepper plants. Thanks for the cool vid, you grew a lot of nice peppers.
Better luck next year with the hot peppers - and thanks!
Great video! Amazing pepper varieties, and I enjoyed seeing the 7 pot club Hoodie at the end. Keep up the good work!
Love the review!!
Nice harvest! I'm interested in that red ghost monster's production! :)
I really wish you mentioned the taste descriptors for all the plants, its nice to get a personal opinion on flavour profiles. Great video still... thankyou
Love the video great selection. I’m on a three day vacation at the lake this week…hoping I’ll have some color when I get back…..wish me luck.
Good luck, but first, enjoy the lake!
Your lucky, this year here was almost always ruined by rains, I harvested only 30/40 on 10 plants!
Now the sun is back hope to have a great autumn to have a bit more!
Usually I had a bit more of 2 kilos on 3 plants…😭
Sounds like you are also from europe? Im from germany, same thing for me. Im a beginner in Peppers. I got a lot Peppers on my Plants, but they gotta turn red soon hopefully!!!
@@AuangelLP Hello, yes from french part of Switzerland not to far from Basel. For me is depends the plants, my 3 littles birds thai chili peppers have a lots on them and already approximatively 10 chili turns red a week and i should have 750gr at the end ( normaly on them i have nearly 1500 chilis), but on my old habaneros ( 3 plants of 3 years old ) i already harvest maybe only 20 and i will have maybe 60 more, when the same give me last year nearly 500. on this year the young habaneros plants will have maybe 5 - 10 if im lucky!
@@olioli6165 wow thats Not a lot compared to your Last years. Looks Like we didnt have the best Chili year with all the Rain and the cold start of the year
@@AuangelLP Yes, and im lucky because they're all in a pots on wheels where i can move then under the roof when is raining too much, but we had nearly no sun and a boring cloudy weather. hope that the next few week will be great.
Thanks for the ideas and guidance, this year. I'm curious what you use all those peppers for. Sauces, spices, etc?
We do a lot of dehydrating because after the peppers are ground into powder, they take up a lot less space. We also do a lot of pickling, fermenting and experimenting with hot sauces.
I'm interested in what fun and tasty stuff you can do in baking/sweets with peppers!
So many amazing looking Chilli. I bought a Fresno Chilli from a garden centre while the plant was productive I did not think much of it, a rather bland Chilli.
I saved seeds from a delicious fruity fresno I got last summer at the farmers market. Its children this summer were yummy. However, I was highly disappointed with the jalapeno seeds I bought at the store. I wanted something that the whole family would enjoy as poppers but with some heat. I think they were mislabeled nadapenos.
@@amyschmelzer6445 This is the first time I have heard of nadapenos I will need to look out for them but I wonder if it is similar to Anaheim Chilli.
@@davidwardrop9214 It’s a jalapeno where the heat has been bred out of it. Nada+(jala)peno = not a hot jalapeno. Anaheims are a different shape I think.
Awesome bro! Good vid!
Really like your program. That's a lot of peppers!! How do you process so many. Do can, pickle, dry, (can you freeze them?).....? I'd like to try the sugar rush stripy..........
Yes to all - we try not to let any go to waste by using a variety of preservation/cooking methods. Many are on our channel!
Hi from Germany 🇩🇪
Hello hello!
I have some cayenne peppers that don’t look and grow like cayennes, but that’s what they were labeled as. They almost look like small Fresno peppers that grew straight up.
Nice 👍🏼
I’m dying to try that peachgum tiger. I can’t find any seeds. Such a cool looking plant and fruit
We may offer some seeds for sale, though they would be open pollinated
🤤🤤🤤 peppers
This is my first year to grow peppers, and I don’t even know what to do with them. I made some Aji pineapple hot sauce, and some sugar rush peach jelly, but still have tons of Anaheim and sugar rush cream and habanada coming on. It’s so fun, but stressful to use/preserve them! We’ve given away over 1/2 of our peppers just for fear of letting them go to waste. 🤪
Ziplock bag and into the freezer, no blanching required.
That is always part of our technique too, giving them away to people! Freezing is great to keep them for future sauces and cooking/stir fry, dehydrating is good for powders/rubs
man you grew a TON of varieties!
Congrats on 50k subscribers
Thank you 😊
Love your pepper videos! I’ve grown so many chills due to your channel
Love to hear that :)
Hi Pepper Geek, Habanero is a great hot Pepper, but for me Jamaican Scothch Bonnet is mine preferd, if you want to try something hoter,tasty and much fragrance,Try Naga Salmone.Carolina ripper is better like extracted oil
Yes indeed, _love_ scotch bonnets. We grew the MOA variety last year and it was one of the best tasting types of the year.
@@PepperGeek I live i n north Italy and the climate is not such god for groving hot peppers i do it for my pleasure and share it with friends,i'not a farrner i do it for pleasure in a small garden. Glad to find yor channel and wish you all the best
peter pepper lmfao thats amazing
Wonderful video! So many colorful peppers! Great harvest.
Any ideas what you will do with Carolina Reapers?
Those are for sauce experimentation and occasionally tasting raw for "fun"
@@PepperGeek I am growing them for fun, but not sure I can taste the sauce.. Hope it comes out great, stay safe and have lots of milk nearby ;)
I hear the little yellow ones are the most expensive pepper in the world by wieght. Remember to wash your hands before you go to the bathroom, lol. Wow you the man, I died and went to pepper heaven.
WOW what an amazing selection! where do you source your seeds, asking for a friend in Canada.......
A few of our favorites: peppergeek.com/buy-pepper-seeds-online
@@PepperGeek Thank you!
I love your channel! Started gardening this year and had a successfully harvest of jalapeños, habaneros, ghost peppers, Thai chili’s, and Carolina reapers (none grown from seed). Our hot sauces have come out Amazing! You guys are an inspiration! Where do you get your seeds from to grow these beautiful peppers?
That is great to hear! Glad you've enjoyed our channel. We buy from a variety of sources - here is a short list of some of our faves: peppergeek.com/buy-pepper-seeds-online
Hurricane Ida flattened half of my garden. Womp. At least it didn’t destroy my house like some.
Great video. Do you use most of your peppers or do you have a lot of extra?
Thanks. Yes, we do our best to use them up and store the rest for use throughout the winter
your prized plant is smaller than my smallest plant. and i planted 30 peppers too. my smallest and most neglected are still 3 ft tall and products at least 50 pods so far . my good plants have produced over 100 pods easy
Is this your final harvest or are you letting the rest ripen up?
Not our final harvest, we will let them go till the very end :)
yay
Is this a typical harvest time for y'all? Or did the hurricane mix things up?
The extra tempatures causing plants to ripen sooner is my geuss.
Usually starts around this time and then we get continued harvests through October until it frosts. Some types started much earlier, and a few plants haven't produced any ripe pods yet.
Question: how do you prevent cross pollination for the purpose of saving the seeds of the original species?
Move plant 50 feet away from other plants.
You can isolate portions of the plant as well using a mesh cloth (paint strainer bags or similar). Isolate flowers before they open, then remove the cover once the pods begin to form.
My varieties this year: cayenne, ethiopian brown, ouzbek, calabrese, tehrani, aleppo, buena mulata, big black mama, trinidad moruga scorpion caramel, and carolina reaper. For a first trie we will see...
What are your plans for Carolina Reaper peppers? I am growing them as experiment this year but who can handle that heat?!?
@@naujgint Hi!! First I am french and here we have NO you tube channel that kind of quality such as the english and american ones. I started my plants with seeds bought on a french site, it looks great but the weather was not fine this year (but there're going on soon!!), and I think I will make oil and hot fermented sauce with that, that will optimise the heat, flavour, conservation and the... valuation (in general) of this kind of bomb. But I experiment it too!! the only choises I could find are these ones, it only matter to be a good, an attentive cook, expecialy to make fermented sauces, but try! So thank you for your question and sorry for my english, I am not used to practicing this language often.
@@nicolaslherme9507 Thank you for the reply! Hope your fermented sauce comes out great!
Any idea what the heat scales are for these peppers?
Hello! Where do you get the seeds? Do you grow pepper bushes separately to avoid cross-pollination?
TIL those little flower foreskins are called "calyx" lol
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Love this
You rock. A question:
Is an ornamental considered an ornamental because the pods are so small, and they’re “pretty” to be planted in those applications? Like, constricted growth?
I’m a newbie, but I have two Thai Hot Pepper plants sharing the same large pot. The output is incredible…dozens ripening each day and new flowers appearing…and they taste dang good.
I guess I’m confused because when I hear “ornamental,” I think for show only and not consumption. I’ve used these with lemon grass and coconut milk to cook mussels, and they give it a nice kick.
Great harvest!! Side question any good grow tent/ lights y’all recommend being 4x4 or maybe 3x 3
Thanks! this is our current recommended grow light/review:
peppergeek.com/viparspectra-p1500-led-grow-light-review
We also use a Mars Hydro grow tent that does the job:
peppergeek.com/mars-hydro-grow-tent-review
Peachgum tiger seems like a good trick for Halloween lol
A lot of my habanero peppers have had holes near the calyx and like a black caterpillar inside. How do you stop pests from making their home in your peppers?
Caterpillars are tough - you can try to remove them by hand if you notice them on your plants earlier in the season. They seem to attack specific plants in our experience, and avoid others.
Great video guys! But FYI, piquillo de Lodosa is a Spanish heirloom, not Italian. Lodosa is a small town in the province of Navarra!
Thanks - I will add a correction in the description
Hey! First-time grower here. I have a couple pots of orange habaneros which still flowering but I do have a few fruits. They obviously started out green and went through the awesome transformation of the color and are orange now. However, they became sort of soft to the touch and don't seem crunchy. Is that ok or did I do something wrong? Haven't picked them yet, I'm thinking of doing that soon.
If you leave them for a _long_ long time, they may soften. Some varieties go soft quicker than others like cayennes and thai chilis. Habaneros usually maintain their crunch for quite a while when left on the plant
what a great crop :-)
My local nursery has a limited selection of pepper varieties. What's the best way to get ahold of some of these? Ia there an online store you'd recommend?
We use many different seed suppliers based on what they have in stock. Here are a few we recommend: peppergeek.com/buy-pepper-seeds-online
@@PepperGeek Great! Thank you for the help!
Btw, I have made your habanero hot sauce recipe with Caribbean reds, ghost, and jalapenos. All have turned out excellent!
Next go round I'm going to substitute sugar for pineapple and see how it goes!
@@TheBurninator50 Love pineapple sauces - hope it comes out tasty!
How far apart should I plant different pepper varieties
Help me understand (or a video idea) on how come i can save my hybrid pepper's seeds, and replant them but in things like tomatoes, hybrid seeds lose a lot of their hybrid characteristics. I guess what im asking is how come the perception is keep cool pepper variety seeds and replant them (not clone them) but not generally practiced with other vegetable seeds?
Saving hybrid pepper seeds definitely change characteristics. The early generations of a hybrid will be very unpredictable and varied - tomatoes are also much easier to propagate than peppers, with adventitious roots usually forming within just a few days. I think people like to save pepper seeds just to see what will happen - usually there is no harm unless your goal is disease resistance for large scale farm growing, etc.
@@PepperGeek appreciate that. always threw me off. save the seeds or not.
Amazing Video 🤘🏼 do you guys sell the LotaLutein seeds? I would love to be able to Grow that 🙏🏼
We probably will not sell those seeds - they were planted right beside another annuum so there is a decent chance of cross pollination. Here is the official source for seeds! chilepepperinstitute.ecwid.com/NuMex-LotaLutein-p308602183
Thank you so much 🙏🏼
Where did you get your Lotalutein Serrano seeds? This is an enjoyable video. Thank you for making it.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed. Here is the source for that pepper:
chilepepperinstitute.ecwid.com/NuMex-LotaLutein-p308602183
@@PepperGeek When would be a good time to order from them. Can I order now and store the seeds until next growing season?
@@Radi0ActivSquid Yes, pepper seeds keep for a few years as long as they’re stored well (not too wet/hot/light.) Feel free to buy now for next summer’s garden.