Worth's 2017 Accidental Garden.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Gardeneer

Worth, can you post a picture of your ghost plant ?

I also bought one from HD, long time ago.
I discovered that there were actually two of them. So I divided it up. But their stems were touching. Then I repotted them separately. They lost most of their big leaves but eventually started growing. Now they are planted in the garden. right now they are not even 5" tall but are healthy.
Never before have grown Bhut before so I don't know their growth habit.
I have heard that super hot peppers grow very slowly. My other kind of super hot are 2 Scotch Bonnet that I started from seed . One of them is about 6" tall and the other one 11". But they are bushy. my other peppers like Fresno an jalapenos are 18 -to 26" tall. They all are in full sun.

Be right back.
Worth

[Worth1]

Here are all four of them.
If I do this right the last one will be the suspect.
And maybe the first one.
The wee sprouts you see are dill the other are cucumbers.
Oh yes four okra transplants.
I just watered before the pictures.
Worth
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Adding image to see comparison from plant out time.

[Worth1]

Here is the big transplant I took the picture of this morning.
Yesterday the whole stem was bent over.
If the big leaves survive they should be fine in a day or so.
If not it doesn't matter they will be long gone soon enough.
Worth
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[dmforcier]

Scotch Bonnets do not qualify as superhots. I think the nominal breakover is 500,000 SHU, but many consider 1,000,000 SHU to be a more exclusive club. SBs are are in the 100-300,000 range.

BJs have quite similar growth habit to SBs and other habanero types. Mine never got real big like Scorpions, but were respectably large bushes. They have that relatively unique elongated leaf, where most habs have a stockier leaf with undulations. Growth rates are similar.

[dmforcier]

Worth I think they all look like BJs. But it's awful early.

[Gardeneer]

Originally Posted by dmforcier

Scotch Bonnets do not qualify as superhots. I think the nominal breakover is 500,000 SHU, but many consider 1,000,000 SHU to be a more exclusive club. SBs are are in the 100-300,000 range.

BJs have quite similar growth habit to SBs and other habanero types. Mine never got real big like Scorpions, but were respectably large bushes. They have that relatively unique elongated leaf, where most habs have a stockier leaf with undulations. Growth rates are similar.

Thank, DMF,
I was hoping that you will come along and clarify.

Well, OK. SB is in Habanero class. Not SUPER hot but hot around 300k SHU.
I have grown orange, red and choc. habs. But the ones I sowed this year did not germinate for me. No worry. SB BJs are hot enough for me.

Now maybe Worth can find out what he's got Bhut or not .

[Worth1]

I was cleaning around the place and picked up the containers they came in.
Both say Ghost pepper too.
So I imagine they are Ghost peppers.
Unless someone swapped the whole plant.
This nursery is sort of a high end place.
I have shopped there for years.
Many of my yard plants came from there.

Worth

[Gardeneer]

Worth, it is unlikely to have tag switching for both plants.
I hope you've got the real thing. Some of those in your pictures look like mine.But mine are much smaller.
On the positive note my Fresno and Jalapenos are getting ready to munch on.
I have stopped buying tomatoes and peppers. I am also eating my last store bought corn.

[AlittleSalt]

Gardeneer, your peppers are producing too? My plants are around a foot tall but some are producing peppers already.

[Worth1]

I will show you guys my "big" pepper plants tomorrow.

Worth

[Gardeneer]

Originally Posted by AlittleSalt

Gardeneer, your peppers are producing too? My plants are around a foot tall but some are producing peppers already.

Robert, my Jalapenos, Fresno, mini sweets , shesheeto , cayenne, Alma Paprika are producing.
But Poblanos that I added much later are not yet.
O, I forgot . My ornamental are fruiting too. Japanese 5 color are loaded.

[dmforcier]

Originally Posted by Gardeneer

Well, OK. SB is in Habanero class. Not SUPER hot but hot around 300k SHU.

Only the very hottest habs (proper), e.g. Big Sun and Caribbean Red (and depending on the strain, Chocolate), get up to 300,000 SHU. Most, like the common Orange Hab, register around 125-150,000 SHU.

The natural response is, "So what!? It burned my tongue!" Yah. The experience of heat is subjective, to say the least. To most people, 125K is more than they can stand, so for them, it's "super hot".

YMMV

[Worth1]

I came home from Alaska one fall and the peppers were all wilted from the heat of the summer and lack of water.
It was around October.
All of my peppers were hotter than hell.
The poblano peppers were hotter than any normal hot jalapeno you ever had.
The habanero peppers were so hot they were glowing and I had to put foil on the windows to keep the light out at night.
Like a fool I didn't know this and as soon as I got home I ate one of these atomic things right out in the garden.

I do not buy into the heat scale what so ever when it comes to hotness of a pepper.
Worth

[AlittleSalt]

I planted our pepper and okra plants in the worst hit RKN area of our garden. I wanted to see what they would do, and I haven't given them any special attention or anything other than just watering them. I have stakes that tell the varieties are, but I have no clue as to what is producing because I haven't looked. I want to see how they cope with RKN ridden soil on their own.

My garden next year may include grains and chickens. The way I first looked at gardening was all about producing food, and to do whatever I could to do. I'm starting to look at life in-general differently.

I've been looking at a lot of different chicken house plans. Some of them look really good, but if I build a chicken house - I'll need to buy a W Rose trowel.

[dmforcier]

No question that there's a huge individual variation in heat. (I had intended to mention that.) But just imagine how hot true superhots would have been!!

The SHU scales are for comparison of the varieties, not individual peppers. In fact, there is some considerable controversy about how the "World's Hottest" should be judged. Some want a test of individual peppers (and you will see the single-pepper numbers quoted especially for Reapers), while others insist that a true test is an average across several plants.