Was poking around the nursery and what should I find but a few little Reaper's which were not scoffed up by the hoard.  They must have been hidden behind some other peppers.  I couldn't resist so they are now growing in my little garden.  Maybe they will teach the neighbors cat to stop chewing on my flowers,

Nope: cats are too smart for the old hot pepper gambit! :-)

LOL...hold on to your chair people!  Hahahahah

Omg I can't stop laughing at these guys... So funny I sent it to my mom

Oh my.  I think I'm afraid to plant them after this.

Har dee har har... These guys ... I'd buy them dinner.

With or without peppers?

Great video!
Exactly the outcome you might expect from eating satan's testicles.

Bump ... Just because

I am, waiting for some to ripen so I can make the hubby some salsa 

I got seed from FMD, Travis (my son) is excited. They germinated and are growing quite well.

My niece (adopted from India) can eat the most fiercely hot foods and claim it is not hot to her.  I like pretty spicy foods, but even when she says it's not hot... it's hot.  Once we were having pizza at Sam's after shopping.  My brother went across the parking lot to get some wings for her.  He brought back Atomic wings at Wingstop (it took him a while because the cashier was trying to talk him out of the order).  It was the only time I heard her say anything she was eating was hot... but she was still calm and not desperately reaching for anything to drink.  I ate two of them.  I was (relatively) okay after the first one.  Before I finished the second one, I had grabbed my cup and was borderline hallucinating as I was walking towards the soda fountains.

Many years ago, a GardenWeb forum member sent me the Bhut Jolokia seeds.  I was going to plant them for her, but the envelop disappeared at my brother's house.  I do not think it was an accident. 

I have a ripe one...

I should've bought a plant for the heck of it to see how it grows, but I didn't. There's a great place in NJ called Chileplants.com. You can visit the nursery I think from April through May, beginning of June. I did grow Hinkelhatz from seed and Rooster Spur for chili powder. All of the really hots I bought from Chileplants - like Fatalii - haven't done very much, I think due to a lack of significant, extended heat and cool nights. 

 



 


Here's mine
Carolina Reaper. FT Mill SC


These will get the seeds saved and the rest ground or cut up and boiled to try a deer deterrent.
I only need it in the spring so I can have some early lettuce too.

Take care all
Doug

I have lots coming but non ripe, I have a ton of tomatoes sitting on ice waiting...
    

Jalapenos are about the top of my heat tolerance except for the habanero, and only in this recipe:

HOT Ice Cream Topping

2 habaneros diced very fine
4 T butter
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup milk or cream
1/2 cup fresh sliced strawberries(could be figs or any fresh fruit)

melt butter over low heat, add diced habs (no seeds)
cook and mash the habs for 3-5 minutes, add brown sugar stir constantly until melted, add vanilla and cream
cook stirring constantly until caramel like consistancy.

add strawberries and serve over vanilla or chocolate ice cream.

It's the heat vs the sweet AND the Hot vs Cold that makes this one a winner!

Suzi

I like heat in all my jams, preserves, and jellies. Suzi, your recipe looks like a winner!

Try it.  You won't have enough.  This is a fun desert.  They taste the ice and fire, and then the true heat kicks in, but the sweet makes it OK.  Then they ask, "Can I have more?"  Trust me.  It's a winnah!

Suzi

Oh and the stupid boys in the video didn't know how to destroy the heat.  Very simple.  Eat pure sugar by the teaspoon full.  The heat can't take that.  Doesn't know how to handle it, but how would some dude in NJ even know that?  I get my info from the boys across the border in Mexico.  They would have been better off with yogurt than milk.  What were they thinking?  confess i hated the puking!

Maybe those guys should have started with a jalapeno and work their way up over a year or two...

Gloria, I may need more cuttings of Red Barn... they didn't take... another subject, but the dudes could have had a happy show if they had the remedy.  MILK is NOT the remedy.

Suzi

I remember reading somewhere there are two (maybe more) types of capsacin.  People have more tolerance for one over the other(s).  So a jalapeno may give someone fits but a pepper with a higher Scovil number may not.

Many years ago when I worked in NJ, there was a Chinese restaurant close by my office which I frequented often.  I normally ordered the pork in garlic sauce.  Over time I kept asking them to make it hotter and hotter and hotter.  i never got any heat.  One day, I was eating in my office and a coworker came in from down the hall to find out what I was eating.  I told him.  He said it smelled spicy and his eyes were burning from down the hall.  I didn't taste any heat, but I noticed I was sweating and had the hickups (my brothers have the same issue when they eat hot peppers).

Suzi, I'm pretty sure if someone is throwing up within 30 seconds of eating a hot pepper, the chances for happy show are gone.