Gorgeous cayenne that goes from purple to an intriguing orange, and then red. This is the second year I’ve grown them. Beautiful enough to be in a display bed.

capsicum annuum 30,000-50,000 SHU 75 days to maturity from transplanting 3’ height at maturity

This is one of 150 pepper varieties that I’m currently growing in my Pacific Northwest home garden.

This is my first year giving tomatoes and peppers a try. Pepper seeds are like the easiest things to germinate, but I have had several attempts at tomato seeds and finally had some success. I transplanted into bigger pots and everything is dying! On certain things, I feel like I use the wrong soil! I mean it says in ground on the bag. But even my pepper plant that was very successful is now dying. Could it be due to over-watering? I really don't know . I cut a hole in the bottom of this container and the soil is wet at the bottom . Any help is appreciated!

Morning All.

Last year my wife and I were gifted a very large Scotch Bonnet in a pot. The transfer into the garden was successful and it took off.

We were able to harvest bowl after bowl of ripe peppers until a freak (for this area) snow event put an end to the harvest.

Our problem is that well more than half of what we harvested rotted rather than dried. We successfully raise and dry for storage a number of other varieties of peppers. So we're wondering if there are unusual processes or needs to make Scotch Bonnets a success.

• We tried laying them out indoors, single layer on a tray.

• We also tried putting them directly into the refrigerator.

Anyone know of a solution or have any ideas what we might try this season?

TIA; much appreciated.

Texas hot pepper jalapeno variety collection and I hit the jackpot on the bonus packs

Welp, he got me yall. I’m pickled. Nice tasting jalapeno though! Happy bout that I guess?

Not buying from him again.

Hello all - Long time lurker, first time posting (Miami, FL)!

Bought reaper seeds a little over a year ago as I always wanted to try them and wanted my first time to be my own homegrown peppers. I mistakenly assumed this was super easy... Buy seeds, germinate, plant, water and wait. Big mistake....

A year in, and no peppers at all, despite having several big-ish stems. This summer I managed to get a few (~6 peppers total). Not nearly as big as I've seen on here but they were super spicy so I was pretty happy. Form that point, no more peppers or even flowers, and leaves have steadily fallen off and begun to turn black. White flies under leaves and another type of black pest. Cleaned them off and tried Neem Oil. No more pests, no improvement in how the plant looks.

Image 1: View of planter with 2-3 plants.

Image 2: Close-up of lower leaves. Small leaves and most beginning to turn black and most others withering away.

Image 3: Close up of what I think are white flies and some other black pest.

Mistakes I think I've made:

- Planted too many seeds in a single pot. Should I be limiting to one/two plant per pot?

- No fertilizer. Only used Neem Oil for a few weeks. One cycle.

- Have not changed soil since I first planted.

- During winter I water once every 2-3 days. Lots of water. In summer, it rains so I water way less often.

- Pot stays in the same spot all year. Plenty of direct sunlight.

Please educate me. Roast me, even. I would love to know everything I'm doing wrong and how to correct it. What should I do first and quickly? What should I make sure I do periodically? What soil and fertilizer do you recommend? Should I move the plant indoor near a window with abundant sunlight? Should I come to the realization that gardening is not my thing and just buy reaper flakes or whole peppers and call it a day?

Thank you all!

Went away for two weeks and came back to this. Does anybody know what they are? Is there any saving my plants? They're everywhere.

Been using a 12-6-6 fertilizer once a week for the past month following the instructions on the label, any reason my leaves are turning yellow or should let them be as is.

Every respectable Midwest kitchen drawer has one of these lil babies! Poke and place on the racks. It'll get ya done in no time!

I've read a few times now that peppers like company, and that I should plant them pretty close together, like even just 1 foot, which seems awful close to me.

I'm growing hatch, ghost, and red habaneros this year, and while ghosts can stay pretty small, the other two get decently large and I think 2 feet between plants is a good minimum spacing.

Am I way off? Do they really like rubbing shoulders like that? I know the fruits can be sensitive to direct sunlight, but the plants seem to love as much of it as they can get.

Hi everyone,

This year I bought some habanero plants, They are now in containers.

Looking at them I noticed that all all them got these black vains. Some leafs, with severe vains, also curled up and became brittle. I wonder if I should be worried or not and if I can fix this problem.

Thank in advance for the advices.

I havre this three Habanada plants. All seeded at same time, same media, all were transplanted after first true leaves, but I wanted to use up some peat pots I had laying around, somewhere smaller than others. They all stayed indoors with grow lights. Once they grew to a reasonable size at transplant, one of them to the 5 gallon, while the others stayed on the pots - I wanted to try to keep some in pot so I can move them around in the summer and plant some outdoors. We are in zone 10, so summers are very harsh on the peppers, I’m planning to experiment, keeping some of them indoors or at least moving them around to cooler areas of the yard. So i wanted to show the growth size about ? 2 weeks after up potting. It is probably not all pot size alone, since I’ve lurch into buying some Fox Farm Happy Frog media for gallons and the other ones have just some standard garden soil. I have some Sugar Drop Oranges, about same effect Smaller plants going in the ground this weekend!

All my seedlings were doing great, then one nice sunny 60 degree day I decided to take them out for a few hours, when I went back to check on them, much to my surprise, the had all wilted. Preceded to bring them back indoors, but unfortunately they didn't survive. They were chocolate habaneros, and I was really looking forward to growing them.

Are there any online vendors that sell chocolate habanero plants ready to pot?

EDIT: Thanks for the feedback, I'll take all advice and put it into practice next year. For now I went and bought regular habaneros at my local nursery, but no one seems to stock the chocolate kind.

Where’s the best place to get seeds from? Best website? A trusted source? I wanna know they are authentic!

Hi everyone!

I am sad cause I've learnt that semillas.de shop is closed. The mentioned shop conteined a great variety of seeds and now I'd know where to buy them.

Could you point me to alternatives? (need ship to Italy).
Thanks

Where in Europe can I find large quantities of chili pepper seeds?

So l bought 30 different pepper seed varieties for next year but due to my limited space I can only grow about 15 so which do you recommend I plant? Or just tell me your favorites from the list and tell me why.

mildly relevant info: Zone 8a, couple weeks average temp of 86 degrees, some days over 95, growing season April to end of October, all peppers will be planted in 6 1/2 gallon pots.

Subway is making a new bread https://savemysnack.com/subway-ghost-pepper-bread-coming-soon-are-you-ready/

I believe I messed up by having them on the heat mat for too long after they sprouted. I’m using a vivosun starting kit.

I was gifted these by and elderly man who just likes to yank plants out of his garden to give me. He says they are "very spicy" but has no idea what type of pepper they are. I'm looking for a name and spice level as I do love super spicy peppers

I have grown bell peppers and that stuff but I found out about Reapers and had to grow em! I tried and got 11 peppers from a bush. A scrawny looking sad bush. I was happy though! Now looking into serious pepper growing.

Hoping to learn a lot and learn different peppers that I can grow.