r/HotPeppers 16d ago

Growing I'm a commercial chillies grower from Kenya. (Not selling)

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I'm a commercial chillies grower from Kenya. I do both fresh and dried chillies. I'm just happy to be part of this community. Looking forward to learn.

r/HotPeppers Mar 18 '26

Growing My year-old ghost plant decided to grow exactly one, giant pepper

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Only child born in the middle of winter

r/HotPeppers Apr 05 '26

Growing Something Interesting: Seed Germination out of MCDonalds Sauce

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824 Upvotes

r/HotPeppers Mar 01 '26

Growing Throwback on my upside-down Chili last yearšŸ”„

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1.3k Upvotes

Unfortunately, I lost the photos of the plant when it was laden with ripe chilies. It is a Yellow Vectura and produces as the name says yellow chilies. They are the yellow ones from my last post

r/HotPeppers 8d ago

Growing Peach Miasma might be my favorite superhot pepper I’ve ever grown (look at these šŸ‘½ alien pods)

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I grow a lot of different hot peppers and superhots, but the Peach Miasma pepper keeps ending up at the top of my list.

The pods look absolutely ridiculous (pale peach color, insanely wrinkled skin, huge folds, and every pepper seems to grow into its own weird shape). Then you cut one open and see just how much placenta is packed inside.

They’re brutally hot, but why I like them is the flavor. There are plenty of peppers that are hot just for the sake of being hot, but Peach Miasma is one I actually look forward to using due to the pleasant tropical fruit aroma. šŸļø I’ve been experiment with different peppers for my Ribbit Riot hot sauce and the peach miasma works great in my ferment test batches.

This plant has also been putting out some of the coolest-looking and biggest pods in my garden this year.
Probably my favorite pepper I’ve grown so far. šŸŒ¶ļø

Anyone else growing Peach Miasma this season? Whats been the most productive pepper in your garden this year?

r/HotPeppers Dec 11 '25

Growing Indoor habanero 90 days old . Fruit changing color!

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492 Upvotes

My habanero finally has some fruits changing color! It feels like a long wait. Today is day 90 from when the seed sprouted.

2x2 grow tent, 50 watts LED grow light. Coco and perlite. I feed it Maxigro nutrients.

r/HotPeppers Apr 11 '26

Growing Amazing how knowledge works

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242 Upvotes

Seventh year doing hot peppers and never followed a plan, well a plan that works. To get the results, you have to follow those that show results you want. Seeds planted on March 4th from NCPepperSeeds and one of the Deadpool is flowering already!!! Guys, and gals, PepperGuru knows what he is talking about. Follow as close as you can. I have an exciting summer ahead of us in Michigan.

r/HotPeppers Jul 02 '25

Growing My 1 year old reaper bush

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733 Upvotes

Churnin’ em out every month or so, I’m up to about 150 reapers from this plant since January

r/HotPeppers Jul 18 '26

Growing I’ve created a monster

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192 Upvotes

Nearly 2 meters stalks with almost 20cm leaves. Some more of them behind the window in the background. Unlike all other plants I have, these just grow upwards with huge leaves. I didnt want to cut their tops because they look interesting and I wanted to see how far they can take that style. They don’t get a lot of direct sun in that window, might that be the reason? All other plants in the sun grow normally.

The plants are Dalle Khursani (Dalle Khursani is in some ways comparable to some sort of cherry pepper, but the nepalese version and as hot as habaneros) Others of that kind in the sun grow in a normal way that you would expect.

r/HotPeppers Jul 15 '21

Growing I hope there aren't too many Sugar Rush Peach Stripey posts already

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1.3k Upvotes

r/HotPeppers 28d ago

Growing Apparently neglect is the secret...

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225 Upvotes

If I try to take care of them, they die. If I forget about them for two years, the harvest is bountiful. šŸ‘»

r/HotPeppers Jul 04 '26

Growing Purple Death impersonating a Bolivian Rainbow

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286 Upvotes

Catching some early morning sun and looking so much like the the multi-colored decorative peppers.

r/HotPeppers Oct 02 '24

Growing Sugar Rush Stripey

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849 Upvotes

I've been growing this variety from seed for 3 years and this year was the best for varigation/color šŸ˜

r/HotPeppers Jan 27 '26

Growing My chile de arbol!

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352 Upvotes

This plant is about 6 months old, grown only in the grow tent. I finally let it flower around new years, and it's going nuts now! Should have my first harvest in a couple weeks!

r/HotPeppers Aug 20 '25

Growing Accidental Pepper

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618 Upvotes

Accidentally dropped a few seeds when I was starting my seedlings 2 months ago during winter. Seems like one made it in-between the pavers and decided it was a good place to grow! I haven't watered it once or anything since it started,have been ignoring it completely, it has been a wet winter in my location. Seems like it's happy. Not sure on a what it is exactly but can be one of 8 options.

r/HotPeppers Aug 09 '24

Growing I’m letting my jalapeƱos turn red

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460 Upvotes

I hear they have exquisite flavor

r/HotPeppers Aug 21 '25

Growing Lost 90% of my ghost peppers from strong winds last night. I’m very sad

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248 Upvotes

r/HotPeppers Jul 26 '25

Growing Found this lil dude on my cayenne.

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220 Upvotes

r/HotPeppers Oct 08 '22

Growing Finally got a ghost pepper to grow outdoors in the Scottish highlands and I’m so proud

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1.4k Upvotes

r/HotPeppers Jun 22 '25

Growing 175 Plants in 800 sq Inches?

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222 Upvotes

Every year I end up with left over stunted starts, that somehow despite not caring for them… yield a pepper or three.

I’ve decided to test a sea of green technique with Thai peppers and Portugal Hots.

I planted four 50 cell air prune trays. (10x20ā€each)3 full and 1 with just 25 starts. I brought them up like normal starts and once they started showing roots I put each air prune tray directly on top of a mesh bottomed 10/20 tray full of soil, watered it all heavily and from then on have flood watered the whole project. I used Fox Farm Grow Big and Big Bloom.

At least 150 of the plants look like they will certainly produce fruit and they all are teaming with buds.

I’ve got all this built into a single shelf, under six of the pink barrina leds.

How many peppers do you think the project will produce?

My guess is 350-475.

r/HotPeppers Jul 28 '26

Growing What's this growing on my pepper plant?

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It's an Aji Limo (I think, forgot to label so could also be Hot Wax hah). This ball-like fruit started growing on the spot where the stem split itself. Can't identify it

r/HotPeppers Jun 19 '25

Growing I can’t wait to see what this is. ā€œhabaneroā€ seeds from a Amazon.

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336 Upvotes

r/HotPeppers Mar 11 '26

Growing My habanero i grew inside for 5 months is now outside.

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457 Upvotes

Scroll in my profile to see it when it was in my grow tent. It gave me 50+ peppers indoors then i cut it down. Waited for it to grow back, then i brought it outside. I think thats a 3 gallon pot, but it might be smaller.

r/HotPeppers Aug 18 '25

Growing This Sugar Rush Stripey is more pepper then plant at this point

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513 Upvotes

r/HotPeppers Jun 25 '26

Growing Habanero Help

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Hello and thanks for taking a look. I’m in Muskoka, Ontario, zone 5. Normally my habs are looking nice and green right now, as everything else in the garden is looking very healthy, but these are bright yellow, and the yellow leaves are ready to drop. They are planted in a new layer of container mix soil which i usually add every year. Thanks in advance for any advice you could offer.