Chili pepper ID needed.

[Stevetoad]

I've grown many peppers before. Including habanero, this pepper that I bought at the swap meet as a small plant that was simply labled "very hot" finally produced ripe peppers. Me being the big pepper eater I am decided it was a good idea to eat a whole raw one. Bad idea! Maybe it was from the scotch I was drinking but this thing burned the hell out of my mouth for 15 minutes. Gums went into a numb burning mess. What did I eat !? I thought it was a sorono or the like. Never have I eaten a pepper so hot.

[JEFF from Trabuco Canyon CA]

Looks like "BLACK COBRA".....very hot!!

[Stevetoad]

Looks like a dead ringer Jeff! Thanks for the quick ID.

[Steve the palmreader]

blackcobra be careful.

[BigFrond]

Capsicum annuum - This pepper is pretty hot. I have lots of them. Be careful of the tobacco hornworm. One of these guys can decimate your plant within a couple of days.

I'm growing some hanbaneros (Caribean red), and will compare the spiceness between the two.

[cycadjungle]

I see you have had it identified. Here is another name for this pepper:

http://www.thechileman.org/results.php?chile=1&find=goats+weed&heat=Any&origin=Any&genus=Any&submit=Search

Let me know when you want to try something much hotter than that. I'm growing some peppers that are probably ranging from 3 to 6 times the heat of that pepper. I know I'll be within a half hour from San Marcos at Cycad Day next week. Does anyone think super hot pepper seeds might be good for auction items?

[Stevetoad]

I see you have had it identified. Here is another name for this pepper:

http://www.thechileman.org/results.php?chile=1&find=goats+weed&heat=Any&origin=Any&genus=Any&submit=Search

Let me know when you want to try something much hotter than that. I'm growing some peppers that are probably ranging from 3 to 6 times the heat of that pepper. I know I'll be within a half hour from San Marcos at Cycad Day next week. Does anyone think super hot pepper seeds might be good for auction items?

I think seeds are a great auction item. I bought some ghost chili seeds when I was in Hawaii. I used bottom heat and still got 0 germination. I love peppers and the hotter they are the more I want to grow them. I grew a bunch of habinaro peppers last year and gave them to my mom so she could make relish out of them. Very good stuff.

[cycadjungle]

Well cool then, orange habaneros are usually rated around 350,000 Scoville Heat Units. Instead of just sending over a few pics, here is a page from my new site I am still just putting together. This page will show you a few of the peppers and a short desription of each, including how hot they are.

http://seriouslyhotpeppers.com/HotPepperSeeds.html

[amazondk]

I see you have had it identified. Here is another name for this pepper:

http://www.thechilem...y&submit=Search

Let me know when you want to try something much hotter than that. I'm growing some peppers that are probably ranging from 3 to 6 times the heat of that pepper. I know I'll be within a half hour from San Marcos at Cycad Day next week. Does anyone think super hot pepper seeds might be good for auction items?

Thanks for the link. There is information on a link from that site that is quite interesting - http://ushotstuff.com/history.htm

There is a great description of the hot peppers history and dispersal around the world. It is a great american contribution to world cuisine.

dk

[John in Andalucia]

Steve, you are quite the Chuck Norris in the kitchen, by the sounds of things! Whiskey and raw Black Cobra chillies!!

Well, I'm growing rocoto from seed that I brought back from Peru last year. No interest in the seeds on eBay, but I do have around 300 plants on the go. The web says:

ROCOTO PEPPER

While Rocoto peppers look somewhat like bell peppers, it can be dangerous to get the two mixed up. While bell peppers aren't hot at all, the Rocoto pepper is extremely hot. Between 100,000 and 250,000 on the Scoville Heat Index, this pepper is about the size of a bell pepper but is rounder and is typically only red or green. Some people use this pepper to make very spicy sauces.

http://www.sheknows....-of-hot-peppers

Rocoto relleno is a national dish in Peru. Here are some typical recipes: http://olivierifbnur...to-relleno.html I have considered growing them on a small, commercial scale. Here's the first one potted up from a plug just 2 days ago.

[Stevetoad]

Well cool then, orange habaneros are usually rated around 350,000 Scoville Heat Units. Instead of just sending over a few pics, here is a page from my new site I am still just putting together. This page will show you a few of the peppers and a short desription of each, including how hot they are.

http://seriouslyhotpeppers.com/HotPepperSeeds.html

Cool site Tom. I think I'll buy some of your seeds and see if I get better germination. Any tips on getting them to sprout?

[cycadjungle]

Yes, first of all you start with good seeds. What I do is get one of those square or rectangle plastic "trays" with the tops on them that you get some vegetables, or other food items in. You know, maybe something like 5 inches square by about 2 to 3 inches deep.(cut a couple of holes in the bottom) I use a sterile medium, like the Miracle Grow Sphagnum Peat. It has a wetting agent in it and also a bit of fertilizer, just enough to give new seedlings a boost. I will put down a couple of inches of medium and soak the entire container with water.

Your seeds should be soaked for a day before planting. They should also have been dried for about 45 days. (which I don't sell any seeds that haven't had this) Place your seeds in the spacing you want on top of that medium and then once they are planted, just lightly cover the seeds, like only 1/8 inch of the same medium, and then wet down the whole thing again. You don't have to do this, but I will do the final wetting with my pump sprayer with Zero-Tol in it, which is sort of like concentrated Hydrogen Peroxide, which will more or less, sterilize the medium and also the seeds. You can place the top on that container and hopefully, you have left about an inch of air space between the top and the medium. Now you have a little greenhouse, that if it gets just a couple of hours of sun during the day, will heat up the medium so that you get pretty decent germination. With the top on, you probably won't even have to keep wetting the medium. Once you see the first seedlings starting to pop, then just take that top off and go from there. I have some really nice plastic covers that are about 8 inches tall and fit right on top of those black trays that are about 11 inches wide and 18 inches long that you get annuals in, so once those orginal containers have their tops taken off, I put them in these larger trays and put the covers on them, which gives them a better chance to grow out and not get eaten by insects, or beat down by the rain or irrigation system.

Bhuts have an extra learning curve to them compared to the scorpions and the 7 pods. They seem to take twice as long to germinate, so if you don't get any to sprout after 3 weeks or so, I still don't worry. The scorp seeds will start coming up in a week or so. All this may not make any difference, but the longer something takes to germinate, the more of a chance for something to go wrong and mess up everything. If you like real hot, go for the scorps first and get some practice and then go for the bhuts after you get good at it. For something completely different in taste, but still fairly hot, the yellow 7 pods are really nice. Later this year, I will have seeds of the yellow Brain Strains, which have the nice yellow taste, but the heat of a scorp. These are still a recent hybrid that was made between the yellow 7 and a red Brain Strain, so the peppers are still a bit inconsistant in taste and heat, but when you get a good one, it is one of my most favorite of all the hot peppers I have tried so far. What I will do is take the peppers that are most like what I am trying to produce and then only take the seeds from those peppers, and after another generation or so, I should have some killer yellow Brains available. Probably next year on those. All this has been fun for me. I have been breeding cycads for about 25 years now, so it is easy compared to what I have had to do in the past. I've even pollinated my hot banana pepper flowers with Bhut Jolokia pollen, so that hopefully, I can have a nice stuffing pepper with a thin skin, but with the heat that is at least half the heat of a bhut. I have about 200 seeds that came from 4 different peppers, so I will have a lot of seedlings to start and a lot of peppers to test, but if I come up with something cool, it should be worth while.

[Stevetoad]

Sounds like a new obsession for me to get into. Thanks for the great germination info. You should sell a sampler seed pack. I'd buy them. I want to grow all those. What's the best way of going about buying seeds for you. Should I do it through your site or through pm?