Hot Pepper 'Thai Hot (Regular)'

Well suited for containers. Mine grew about 12" tall and about 12" wide and provided about 80 to 100 tiny peppers per plant. Small but ...Read Morepotent peppers, good for adding a little heat to a dish.

From your friends at Botanical Interests: Thai peppers are zesty and pungent (very hot)! The chili-loving Thai people consume more hot pe...Read Moreppers than any other culture, and you can discover the delights of the Thai Hot flavor in your favorite stir-fry or other Asian dish by growing your own Thai peppers in your garden. The compact plants are covered with small 1 1/2” long green and red peppers at the same time, creating a beautiful ornamental display as they grow. They are an excellent choice for containers on a patio or deck, so you can enjoy their beauty even if you don’t venture eating any of their fiery fruit. (Be sure to use gloves when harvesting the fruit or handling them in the kitchen and do not touch any other body part after touching them until you have thoroughly washed your hands.)

Wonderful spice. Hot and clean heat. I dice the peppers to spice up pastas and stir-frys. Easy to grow. All peppers I've grown really...Read More like hot sun, which is provided throughout the summer in the Columbia River Gorge. However, due to the potential for a late spring frost these peppers are best started in doors or bought as seedlings. My friends and I have had great success starting from hand collected seeds from the ripe peppers from the previous year. I simply allow the peppers to dry on the kitchen counter. Come late winter/ early spring I break open a couple peppers and plant the seeds about 1/2" deep. Most seeds germinate w/in 1 to 2 weeks-- the majority closer to 2 weeks. A friend planted one in January several years ago and successfully transplanted the start early May. This pepper plant was huge!!! The plant maxed out at about 2.5' tall and18" wide with dozens and dozens and dozens of fiery hot peppers. More typically I've seen this variety of pepper ending up about 1-1.5' in height and only about 6 - 12" wide, yielding 1-2 dozen peppers.

Thai hot's can be far hotter than 30,000 scoville's.

Easily dried as Ristas or simply strung single file.