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The article is about superhot peppers like Carolina Reaper, Ghost Peppers, etc. It's not about jalapenos. Have you ever ate a Carolina Reaper? Carolina reaper is around 400 times hotter than a jalapeno. Most people can not eat them. If you have not, you should try it.
I grew Habaneros this year and people told me they were too hot. I've grown Carolina Reapers, Ghost Peppers, Trinidad Scorpion previously.
Also want to point out that article titles are not written by the article writer. Article titles are written by the newspaper editor and are sometimes not accurate to the content of the article.
We gotta real Peter Piper over here, defending the NAtOlantikkk, and deflecting criticism of HONKIES.
I absolutely love ghosts! They're so sweet and fruity, great with pineapple or lime, and I've only made myself sick on them twice!
I love the smoky flavor they add
Ghost peppers whip ass. Habaneros often taste kinda bad, and the one time I had a Trinidad I was already spiced up and that gave me my first spice high, so I dont really remember what it tasted like.
I like habs and scorpions too, but they're definitely a different flavor profile. They're more suited towards smokey, high-fat, high-salt content foods. They're heavy.
I had a housemate a couple years back who turned me on to ghost pepper-based hot sauces. They're great! If you wanna make something hotter without fucking up the flavor it's hard to beat two or three drops of ghost pepper sauce.
Conversely, if you love vinnegar, dousing a small portion of mediocre food in an entire bottle of tabasco is golden ^^
How I felt about Frank's and Sriracha for years.
Hell yeah, how easy was it to grow habaneros? I really like Scotch Bonnets and by my logic they look kind of similar so maybe if habaneros are easy to grow I could try growing Scotch Bonnets.
in my experience it's easy to grow anything, the plants do all the work
I bought the plants at a local Plant Nursery and grew them with the rest of my annual vegetable garden. I put the plants in the ground and then did the usually garden maintenance, watering, occasional weeding, etc. If you buy the plant at a nursery, you can ask them for advice.
Oh nice, so it sounds like it at least didn't require special care. I think I'll grab some from a nursery, thanks for the advice!
My peppers were so easy this year, and I got quite a few. A lot of my tomatoes got blight, though, which is a bummer :/
growing plants is pretty straight forward though, just give them a ton of sunlight and water every few days (if they’re outside)!
I've only done herbs and they are very easy. I hear peppers are also pretty easy, just haven't grown them before!
I did anaheim, cayenne, and habanero this year, and they all did really well; I'm having to learn how to dry them properly. I'm in zone 7b, and I was worried a little bit about the heat for a few weeks, but I just made sure to water them a little more often. I hope whatever you choose to grow you do well!
Nice! And thank you!
Carolina reaper is old news chum, they have pepper x now. That’s like 2-3x as hot as a reaper
I grew some spicy cajun bell peppers this year and they're as spicy as jalapenos, they aight
I'm never growing them again though, they're so fucking small, i hate processing them. Literally the size of a habanero