Being that this my first experience with this pepper I have a question. First of all these peppers are both hot and delicious. I like the...Read More smaller size since I am the only one in the family that will eat hot peppers. I only have 4 plants but the way that these are producing it will be more than enough. I have noticed one thing though. Most of the peppers turned from green to orange to red. Some of the others however started turning purple on one side and then fell off. They are smaller, completely green on one side and purple on the other. Can someone explain what is going on?
San Marcos, TX (Zone 8b) | December 2014 | positive
I can't positively say for sure that this is the same plant that volunteered every year in my grandmother's flower bed in Burleson, TX bu...Read Moret it is close enough for me. Even if it didn't have all of the positive attributes of abundant heat, flavor, beauty, and yield, I would grow it for purely sentimental reasons . This is the pepper responsible for my lifelong addiction to REALLY HOT peppers. Thanks, High Mowing for making this great pepper available to those who can appreciate it.
We've planted these for a number of years, and have found them to be attractive, tasty ... and EXTEMELY hot. My chef son claims that if y...Read Moreou squeeze one of the peppers for a few minutes, your hands tingle.
If Habaneros are not hot enough for you - try these! They produce a large number of 2" (approx) peppers which are yellow, with purple shading as they mature. They are shaped a bit like a Serrano.
Excellent flavor if you can get your mouth accustomed to the heat.
We've grown them quite successfully in zone 5, starting them in peat pots as early as late February, and as late as April.
We consider these a "must have" when we're able to get our hands on the seeds.
I have been growing this pepper for years now. It is a good heavy producer - with very hot, very good tasting peppers. It is my main pepp...Read Moreer I grow every year - for it's flavor (and heat). It also dries easily and is great crushed up for the long winters here in Utah. Also, it is a good producer indoors and is a good self-pollinator - so it makes a good container plant if you don't have a garden - but have a window and some sunlight. I love this pepper.
Franklin, NC (Zone 6b) | September 2006 | positive
I've grown this one from seeds saved from when Seeds of Change first introduced it in the early 1990s and I've never been dissapointed. T...Read Morehe claim that it couldn't be measured on the Scoville is improbable, but they're blazing HOT and have a wonderful, rich chile flavor. Healthy, small-leaved, 2 1/2 foot bushes bear blemish-free, lipstick red peppers ripening from yellow to orange to red. Everyone who tries them remark on their appearance and (if they're chile heads) the flavor. Makes a great pepper vinegar.
Caution-Extreme Heat! Bushy plants bear a profusion of unbelievably hot yellow fruit with purple blotches that grow upright and pointed. ...Read MoreThey turn a glowing orange/red color when ripe and become so intensely hot that they couldn't be measured on the Scoville scale that measures a chile's heat. (72 day)
Being that this my first experience with this pepper I have a question. First of all these peppers are both hot and delicious. I like the...Read More
I can't positively say for sure that this is the same plant that volunteered every year in my grandmother's flower bed in Burleson, TX bu...Read More
We've planted these for a number of years, and have found them to be attractive, tasty ... and EXTEMELY hot. My chef son claims that if y...Read More
I have been growing this pepper for years now. It is a good heavy producer - with very hot, very good tasting peppers. It is my main pepp...Read More
I've grown this one from seeds saved from when Seeds of Change first introduced it in the early 1990s and I've never been dissapointed. T...Read More
Caution-Extreme Heat! Bushy plants bear a profusion of unbelievably hot yellow fruit with purple blotches that grow upright and pointed. ...Read More