Hello everyone!!! Occasionally I walk about in the garden and snap foto's. These foto's were taken today-4-30-2020. These foto's are just a sample of whats actually going on in the chili pepper patch. I am fully loaded with chili's now although I am just now waiting for super-hot chili's to fully ripen. The super-hot peppers are the chili's I value the most. They add the right flavor to my chili pepper recipes. Although I do not eat them by themselves I do mix them with other chili peppers. I use whatever chili peppers are ripe that day to mix with the super-hot peppers. Later, I will make chili paste or pureed chili pepper with just super hot peppers. I am not ready for that yet. Just a few super-hots really change the character and flavor of any recipe. Tobasco and Thai hots by themselve really don't do it for me on their own any longer. Not since I started growing these beautiful super hot chili peppers. Try it. They aren't really much harder to grow than any other chili pepper once you get the hang of it.
4-30-2020 foto's. Bhut Orange Copenhagen beginning to ripen
Green BOC
More BOC ripening. Fully loaded. The Bhut Jalokia can be one of the most prolific pepper plants you can grow. I have had very good luck with this plant. Look at all the berries!!
Bhut Orange Copenhagen-beautiful. When you see peppers this pretty-be careful. They are probably spicey.
Carolina Reaper-no tail-Bumpy skin usually is a clue that the pepper might be spicey.
Carolina Reaper
Carolina Reaper-not all foto's are of good quality. Fruits of this plant are excellent looking with the classic bumpy skin
More Bhut's
Orange Chocolate Bhuts-classic look
Orange Choco Bhuts-not ripened
Beautiful
Different style Orange Chocolate Bhut
Same pepper in better lighting-Super hots will vary in phenotype as most are not completely stabilized. This Orange Chocolate Bhut is very large
Purple Thunder-one pepper is ripening. It will be red.
Purple thunder-bubble gum color
Unripened Purple Thunder
Unripened Purple Thunder-in the chili pepper world, lots of amateur growers experiment with crosses. Purple Thunder is one of those projects. This is an f-4 speciman. It takes 8 to 10 generations to get to a point of variety stabilization. Growers usually can't wait that long before seed distribution so you get variation's. I think the variations are interesting. The flavor is this pepper is pretty amazing too.
Bhut Orange Copenhagen-From my reading, the Bhut Orange Copenhagen-or BOC, was developed in Amsterdam by an amateur grower. Its not a cross. Its just a variation that a grower found in his green house. He saved seed from his plant. And, the BOC was born. Discovered in 2009 so this Bhut variation is probably not even fully stabilized either. When you google this variety you see many different versions of it. I think it is a great plant. A keeper.
Hon Gochu-Korean pepper-When you visit your local Chinese food market and you find those big bags of dried pepper flakes. This is the pepper that is used to make those flakes. It is also in the kimchee that you buy in the market as well. Its a mild pepper. Grown all over China and Korea.
Dragons breath-very small plant-it is just now trying to make a comeback as this speciman got set back due to sun burn plus wind burn.
Tobasco-very dependable
Thai hot-very dependable