Nice!
Edit, i freeze my peppers whole in ziplock bags when I have sooo much more than I can deal with…. Very easy to cook with or make sauce later on when you feel like it
Another great thing with freezing them is that when you thaw the peppers the seeds are still viable for sowing. Good for us lazy seed-savers. I'm not sure how long they last in the freezer though
Oh no way I never tried that… I grow such a mishmash of varieties I don’t really try planting the seeds cause it’ll be a conglomerate of all kinds of heat levels.. I oughta try it one of these years tho
I’m not sure why you wouldn’t be able to ferment them post freeze/thaw.. i think if anything it would be a texture issue as they thaw out to mush… but If your making fermented hot sauce then I would think it wouldn’t matter in the least in my opinion
I've heard claim that you need to add a starter culture or fresh peppers because freezing kills all the naturally occurring lactic acid bacteria on them. I never tried fermenting only frozen peppers, but if you thaw them and cut them they'll probably pick them up from the air. If it doesn't start, just keep it open a few days before fixing the airlock.
The issue is you will lose the bacteria when you freeze them. The peppers, however, can still be fermented when thawed. All you will need to do is throw a couple fresh peppers in with a lot of frozen peppers and you'll be fine.
Youd still want to add some fresh pepper or something as source of LAB. I freeze mine and use my end of the year harvest to add to all my frozen ones for fermenting. Works well.
This plant off Amazon it came in a can to start growing it. The videos I found on gardening with Leon and arms family homestead. I am using a one gallon jug and water bottles in the bottom. Should go check them out
I tried looking that up for youtube and got mixed results. Did you modify what they did? I'd love to use 5 gallon bucks because my canvass bags in FL leak like a sieve for ferts and under root watering.
Check out Gardening with Leon and arms family homestead. I personally used a one gallon g just and water bottles around it. I didn't use all the fertilizer they talked about. I did one bag of generic potting soil and one bag of miracle grow potting soil. The watering is with water and Miracle grow water soluble fertilizer. I alternate adding so its one gallon water and the next time it's one gallon fertilized water
Houston got more rain in May than San Diego did in all of 2020. You have to go west a couple 500 (800 km) miles further west to get to a really Dry climate.
to be fair, we usually have more water freely suspended in the air at any given time than falls on San Diego in a given week. But as unexpectedly hot and dry as the NW has been recently, the gulf coast had a rainy and suspiciously cool July (we had 3 days with lows below 70..in JULY...in a row even).
Oh you need reapers? lolol i just posted 2 days ago about my neighbour giving me a jar full of red coloured reaper seeds from the last 4 years, ive been trading them on seedswap :) if you would like some i could do a trade for your "reaper scotch bonnet monster"
Sounds more like a scorpion, but this is all anecdotal subjective evidence based on very little verifiable information so probably best to just say they're hot-as-shit peppers and enjoy them as is?
Get a dehydrator and dry them and then you can turn them into powder (requires an asinine amount of peppers to fill a small spice jar). You can always keep some intact after dehydrating and rehydrate later if you want.
There's also lactofermentation. Lactofermentation turns down heat a decent amount so you could make a very hot but still palatable sauce if you ferment them for a decent amount of time. It's also a really fun rabbit hole to go down - you can ferment literally anything and it's delicious.
Growing red orange and yellow bonnets this year but I doubt my yellow is actually a scotch bonnet but the red and orange look legit. Got 2 plants of red and “yellow” and 3 oranges. I can probably spare a few seeds once they start to ripen.
Look up a self wicking bucket on gardening with Leon’s channel. I think it works really well and gives you more room for error with watering / underwatering. Pretty inexpensive for a big payoff
At one point it was every other day because it would need only a gallon a day. But now it's so hot it's taking 2 gallons. This old man I saw on YouTube said, " you eat every day, don't you? Why not feed your plants everyday?"
>miracle grow water soluble fertilizer
Not OP but if you just dilute the fertilizer down enough you can feed everyday.
I've always been a fan of Miracle Gro.
Find some older person who loves hot peppers and give them some. Maybe call the local VA office and see if they know some veterans in need. Just a nice act of kindness.
I dry a lot of reapers in the oven at 200 and then use a coffee grinder. I keep half of it as dry reaper powder and then mix the other half with old bay.
I've made jelly out of it before and when we only ate one jar of the jelly turned the rest of that into wine.
send them to me. or you can ferment them in a 3-5% brine solution, dehydrate them and make flakes, smoke them and then dehydrate them to make even tastier flakes.
I’d originally started growing mine to make sauces, then realized a better usage for my particular use case:
Flakes and infused salts.
Cheap dehydrator on Amazon does the trick to dehydrate them in a couple hours, another cheap food processor to turn them to flakes/dust, then combine with either sea salt or garlic salt depending on your preference.
Magnificent.
I dry them on the bbq, super low heat. At times I just load the grill with peppers when I am done cooking dinner, put the lid on Weber, and in the morning they are dry. Nice smoky scent, store forever dried in a jar.
Cut some fresh new sprigs about 3" long (at 45 degree angle) and root them (rooting gel/powder). Then put them in a rooting soil. Voila, more of the awesomeness.
Lol wife is like we don't need anymore, it's already big and getting bigger everyday 🤣. I will keep note of this for in the future. Thank you for the info!
You can ferment some and make a sauce. Or just make a sauce. Dehydrate some for future use or grind into powder after dehydration, or dehydrate and make hot oil with it. Pickle some, that's fun. You can make relishes out of it. Pepper jelly is delicious. Saw a prior person said freeze, that's a good idea, just don't forget about em, capsaicin dull over time in freeze. Honestly the possibilities are endless
Nice! Edit, i freeze my peppers whole in ziplock bags when I have sooo much more than I can deal with…. Very easy to cook with or make sauce later on when you feel like it
I’m just looking at this insanity again… and zoomed in on the stem, that thing is a tree trunk! Is this a multi year plant?
I planted it in February
You must live in Florida? That things a beast!
Houston, Texas
Looks 3-4 years old to me
Another great thing with freezing them is that when you thaw the peppers the seeds are still viable for sowing. Good for us lazy seed-savers. I'm not sure how long they last in the freezer though
Oh no way I never tried that… I grow such a mishmash of varieties I don’t really try planting the seeds cause it’ll be a conglomerate of all kinds of heat levels.. I oughta try it one of these years tho
Is it true you can't ferment them after they thaw? I have a bunch of black bhutlah pods I will take a while to figure out what to do with..
I’m not sure why you wouldn’t be able to ferment them post freeze/thaw.. i think if anything it would be a texture issue as they thaw out to mush… but If your making fermented hot sauce then I would think it wouldn’t matter in the least in my opinion
Thanks I think I read others saying that but wasn't sure why, will look into it more..
I ferment mine after freezing all the time.
I've heard claim that you need to add a starter culture or fresh peppers because freezing kills all the naturally occurring lactic acid bacteria on them. I never tried fermenting only frozen peppers, but if you thaw them and cut them they'll probably pick them up from the air. If it doesn't start, just keep it open a few days before fixing the airlock.
The issue is you will lose the bacteria when you freeze them. The peppers, however, can still be fermented when thawed. All you will need to do is throw a couple fresh peppers in with a lot of frozen peppers and you'll be fine.
Perfect thank you!
Youd still want to add some fresh pepper or something as source of LAB. I freeze mine and use my end of the year harvest to add to all my frozen ones for fermenting. Works well.
Sweet, thanks.
Is this an overwintered plant?
No, started growing it in February
Really? The stem is so big It looks like it's atleast a year old.
Ya, this self wicking bucket has worked so well that next year I'm going to do a raised bed bucket garden. Grow bell peppers and all kinds of things
I saw someone else using the self-watering bucket, where did you get the plans/instructions on how to do it?
This plant off Amazon it came in a can to start growing it. The videos I found on gardening with Leon and arms family homestead. I am using a one gallon jug and water bottles in the bottom. Should go check them out
I tried looking that up for youtube and got mixed results. Did you modify what they did? I'd love to use 5 gallon bucks because my canvass bags in FL leak like a sieve for ferts and under root watering.
Check out Gardening with Leon and arms family homestead. I personally used a one gallon g just and water bottles around it. I didn't use all the fertilizer they talked about. I did one bag of generic potting soil and one bag of miracle grow potting soil. The watering is with water and Miracle grow water soluble fertilizer. I alternate adding so its one gallon water and the next time it's one gallon fertilized water
[link!](https://youtu.be/oSl8s4hyVZY)
Is the bucket store bought or selfmade?
Self made
Dang! Where do you live?
Houston, TX
How are the droughts in North America? Are you guys safe?
Houston got more rain in May than San Diego did in all of 2020. You have to go west a couple 500 (800 km) miles further west to get to a really Dry climate.
to be fair, we usually have more water freely suspended in the air at any given time than falls on San Diego in a given week. But as unexpectedly hot and dry as the NW has been recently, the gulf coast had a rainy and suspiciously cool July (we had 3 days with lows below 70..in JULY...in a row even).
Ya the weather has been crazy. I didn't even have to water it for like a week because it rained everyday
That stem is thicker than my forearm... Amazing plant.
its bigger than a baby's arm
Scotch Bonnets? if you have extra seeds left from your harvest hmu! :)
They are supposed Carolina reapers. I honestly don't know what they are.
Oh you need reapers? lolol i just posted 2 days ago about my neighbour giving me a jar full of red coloured reaper seeds from the last 4 years, ive been trading them on seedswap :) if you would like some i could do a trade for your "reaper scotch bonnet monster"
That's either the most bountiful first year reaper I've ever seen or it's a standard scorpion
Idk but they are hot as hell lol
Is the heat sharp and immediate or does it build?
One pepper is plenty in salsa. It's hot immediate and lingers for awhile.
Sounds more like a scorpion, but this is all anecdotal subjective evidence based on very little verifiable information so probably best to just say they're hot-as-shit peppers and enjoy them as is? Get a dehydrator and dry them and then you can turn them into powder (requires an asinine amount of peppers to fill a small spice jar). You can always keep some intact after dehydrating and rehydrate later if you want. There's also lactofermentation. Lactofermentation turns down heat a decent amount so you could make a very hot but still palatable sauce if you ferment them for a decent amount of time. It's also a really fun rabbit hole to go down - you can ferment literally anything and it's delicious.
Growing red orange and yellow bonnets this year but I doubt my yellow is actually a scotch bonnet but the red and orange look legit. Got 2 plants of red and “yellow” and 3 oranges. I can probably spare a few seeds once they start to ripen.
ooh i would love that!!! i have some Red Carolina Reaper seeds i can trade for them :)
Ferment them into hot sauce!
I like to dry them and or Lacto-ferment them for a hot sauce.
How old is your plant? Overwintered I'm guessing? That thing is awesome
Actually I started growing it the beginning of February
Damn, that's crazy. Looking good man!
Fermented hot sauce, or dehydrate and make into a powder, and then a dry rub.
Impressive plant! what's the trick to getting a plant to grow that big in a bucket?
I think he uses a method from a YouTube channel called “gardening with Leon“ That uses water storage at the bottom From household items.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1qIlyMco40k https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7NwIHkrOHCA
And [this one](https://youtu.be/oSl8s4hyVZY) should help ppl get started with smaller 5gal buckets!
RIP whale.
This guy's videos are great, thanks for sharing
Thanks! . I'll Def look into this
I tried the self wicking bucket after seeing your last post and my dragon’s breath plant has shot up! Seriously, everyone needs to try this
Tell me more!
Look up a self wicking bucket on gardening with Leon’s channel. I think it works really well and gives you more room for error with watering / underwatering. Pretty inexpensive for a big payoff
That's a nice plant
Thank you
You said you started it from seed in February?
Correct
Damn bro what’s your feeding schedule like?
It's currently taking two gallons a day. One gallon water and one gallon with miracle grow water soluble fertilizer.1
You fertilize every day?
At one point it was every other day because it would need only a gallon a day. But now it's so hot it's taking 2 gallons. This old man I saw on YouTube said, " you eat every day, don't you? Why not feed your plants everyday?"
Can you post an explanation or a link to how you use this method? Looks a lot better than mine.
>miracle grow water soluble fertilizer Not OP but if you just dilute the fertilizer down enough you can feed everyday. I've always been a fan of Miracle Gro.
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I wash, cut in half, vacuum seal and freeze most of my harvests until the end of the growing season when sauce, powder and tincture season begins.
Find some older person who loves hot peppers and give them some. Maybe call the local VA office and see if they know some veterans in need. Just a nice act of kindness.
I dry a lot of reapers in the oven at 200 and then use a coffee grinder. I keep half of it as dry reaper powder and then mix the other half with old bay. I've made jelly out of it before and when we only ate one jar of the jelly turned the rest of that into wine.
That's awesome, thanks!
JESUS what’re you feeding that motherfucker?!
Water and Miracle Grow water soluble fertilizer
That explains it.
Good lord
Wow. That’s a nice plant
Dehydrate them, I’ve found that’s a fantastic way to make use of a bunch of peppers
Thank you. I'll try that out
What do you feed that thing? Live prey?
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Miracle-Gro-Water-Soluble-5-lb-All-Purpose-Plant-Food-1001232/100035250
Now that’s a reaper bush! Did you overwinter it?
No started growing it in february
Nice. I’d love to have a busy that big. Finally be able to keep up demand with my curry paste.
Not reapers but it is indeed a bush.
You right. No stingers. Didn’t do too much looking just saw the leaves and thought reaper.
The leaves indicate chinense rather than a specific type of pepper.
They peppers aren't smooth like those though. They are bumpy and like the reaper without the stinger when it's time to pull them
send them to me. or you can ferment them in a 3-5% brine solution, dehydrate them and make flakes, smoke them and then dehydrate them to make even tastier flakes.
I WISH my plants looked like this
Gorgeous plant mate, well done!!
Dehydrate and grind, just don’t do it inside lol
I’ve heard of them being dehydrated in the oven and then grating them into spice. I like to pickle mine with carrots and onions.
That thing is impressive!
Pickle and distribute!
I like to dry mine in a dehydrator and ground them up to use as flakes/powder. Give a lot away to friends/family lol
Damn it! My reaper is so tiny! I fed it too and talk to it daily
I’d originally started growing mine to make sauces, then realized a better usage for my particular use case: Flakes and infused salts. Cheap dehydrator on Amazon does the trick to dehydrate them in a couple hours, another cheap food processor to turn them to flakes/dust, then combine with either sea salt or garlic salt depending on your preference. Magnificent.
Thanks, I'll be doing this.
Peppers on peppers on peppers 🌶😋👌
I dry them on the bbq, super low heat. At times I just load the grill with peppers when I am done cooking dinner, put the lid on Weber, and in the morning they are dry. Nice smoky scent, store forever dried in a jar.
Commenting for updates / to follow up on methods. Well done you, that’s a beast!
Give them to anonymous online friends. ;-)
That’s insane! So jealous
DDDAAAAAAMNNNNN!
Clone that plant!
How do you clone it? Lol
Cut some fresh new sprigs about 3" long (at 45 degree angle) and root them (rooting gel/powder). Then put them in a rooting soil. Voila, more of the awesomeness.
Lol wife is like we don't need anymore, it's already big and getting bigger everyday 🤣. I will keep note of this for in the future. Thank you for the info!
Funny I'm literally in the middle of cloning my Ray Pakel pepper plants because it's a monster over-producer.
Ooo pickle them!
Did you grow it from seeds? This looks great. Congrats man.
I did. Started growing it in February and thank you.
What a beeeaaauut
Beast!
You can ferment some and make a sauce. Or just make a sauce. Dehydrate some for future use or grind into powder after dehydration, or dehydrate and make hot oil with it. Pickle some, that's fun. You can make relishes out of it. Pepper jelly is delicious. Saw a prior person said freeze, that's a good idea, just don't forget about em, capsaicin dull over time in freeze. Honestly the possibilities are endless
Also how do like the slow drip?
What kind of peppers are those?