Time to turn up the heat! 🌶 Do you yearn for the burn? If so, you’ll love Ben’s hot tips for how to grow the spiciest chilis possible. First, you’ll need to learn about which varieties to choose before you delve into the best potting and planting practices for positively painful peppers! This week’s episode is too hot to handle. Ouch!
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Thankyou Ben I have been gardening for a few years with only a little success, this I am going for broke with my biggest garden ever and I have learned so much from you thanks. I went from two raised garden beds to five raised beds one large table planter my husband built me and a raised 3ft herb garden and pots of berries. Love your videos thankyou.
First time with variety of peppers Planted outside then ended up with low night time temps and too much rain in Nebraska zone 5b
I think you owe it to us to have a hot pepper tasting video at harvest time. Although, I'd advise having some emergency services on standby somewhere off-camera.
I eat a Carolina reaper in curry almost every day, fantastic taste but it will hurt your stomach if you have to much.
Is the best tasting chillies I've ever had and my wife to, she's Asian. So I highly recommend growing them if you like Chile.
Word of warning though, if your cutting them , especially if removing the seeds for growing, ware gloves, immediately washing hands is not enough . It will burn and itch your hands for hours after.
Our second favorite is the Tabasco chillies, also got heat but a great flavor and prolific producer.
Thanks Ben, you’ve just saved my baby chillis! I will change the compost, spray and not overwater!!!
3 yrs ago we grew jalapenos, last yr we did serrano, and this yr we planted tabasco peppers 😀 excited and hopeful they survive our maritime climate
I WOULD really love an update of these!!
Hi Ben . Very interesting,however, please no sticky cards, these also catch all the beneficial insects. I used them until I found three bees stuck to them within a couple of hours of hanging them up. They were put straight into the bin.
Do you find any issues with the coir?? I’ve not had good luck with it
I am rewatching this as not just for the great puns but we now have two new chilli pepper plants to accompany the sweet bell pepper!
We bought a plant from the allotment plant sale, listed as "small red hot chilly" so not sure on the variety but we picked up a Thai Dragon chilli plant at B&Q listed as 100,000 Scoville. This one was needing an "up" pot so it is in a 30 cm pot, same as our basil.
We are going to giv it away now 😉 our spare plants. We still have 3 spare tomato plants after giving away to friends and family. We have set aside some plants for our childs best friends parents such as tomatoes, courgettes, butter nut squash and basil. We have tons of sweet bell peppers so are putting them into 9cm party cups with holes.
The school has a fair so might sell them for a £1 each to go directly to the school funds? Is that a good price? They are about 10 cm now and the school fair is at the end of the month? We constantly have basil cuttings on the go so might add them and i could dig out the voluntary tomato plants amongst the spinach patch.
I think this new extended are might have potatoes too from a skin that i might have to plan in the new fabric "science" pot. This is growing potatoes from sprouting potato skin peelings that i put in the wormery crate this time.
Our problem this year is black aphids. The runner beans that our child brought home is a big party. More than normal. The garlic and marigolds aren't doing much.
The baby toads that we found in the utility area and released into the bedding area, i think are doing their job in keeping down the snails and slugs. I haven't seen many and neither the toads but i know that they like to his under the mulch.
Just waiting for the nasturtiums to pick up a bit of the aphid and ant slack now.
Going to try 2 sweet bell peppers outside this year. We tried to overwinter the ones in doors but it got the red spider mites, so planted it outside for a bit but they all died.
BTW, i also found out this weekend that our child's BFF's parents are on the waiting list for an allotment that we have been eyeing up. They have a very small garden and working at the NHS with 2 kids. I told them about the requirements and time needed for these allotments to keep them on the active list and maybe we can do a collab! The plots are only 5 rods. If we can get another growing different things too it it would help with being self sufficient in London growing spaces. Plus i am addicted if you haven't guessed by now to growing edibles. lol
I've got 5 Carolina Reaper plants growing now… not sure what I'm gonna do with all of them, but it's my first year gardening and I wanted to give a try to the hottest I could get my hands on lol.
Catching up after vacation — I'll be planting jalapenos this year. Some years they do great, some not so much, but this video was really helpful!
Excellent video! I’ve really been enjoying your videos, super informational. I’m in Vancouver a things can get a bit cool. So I’m going to try growing in the greenhouse this year. Is there any thing I need to be aware of to ensure pollination? Leave the door open? I assume the bugs need to get in there? Also can it get too hot for pollination? I once read that tomato pollen can go sterile above 80F (not sure how true that is). So any tips in this area? Thanks!!
Sangat bagus, saya akan mencobanya
Taking notes for my jalapeños!
Do they come back next year in Bristol ?
Ben, you do an absolutely fantastic job on these videos and tips. These truly mean a lot to me. On behalf of all gardeners, thank you! Happy growing!
I’d highly recommend the Sugar Rush Stripey. It’s a capsicum baccatum, so takes a while to fully ripen but my God, it’s worth the wait. Beautiful stripey chillies that taste superbly fruity and pack a decent punch too. They’re available from Fatalii Seeds.
I am trying to grow Madame Janette's. Have two plants now out of 15 seed start tries. I can not find any information on growing tips for them. Do hot peppers in general grow seasonally? Spring? Does it matter? I have them in my living room for warmth and light, will they flower and produce fruit this winter? Would you have a lead on growing information? Thanks for your most excellent videos!
i started growing chilly simply planting the seeds of what I cooked and woah it worked !! and now my balcony in Italy is full of lovely little and long red chillies !! that I will give to friends or maybe add to oil…anyway I do not like overly hot super fire chillies ! oh and I have one question: do i kill the plant and plant new seeds in the next season or i keep the plants and they will give me more chillies next year ? ?
Thanks for these tips! Very helpful as I just planted my Moruga Scorpion Chocolate seeds this week. Hopefully these will work as I've already tried Carolina Reapers twice without any luck so far.
Hi Ben, where did you buy your plug plants from in the uk? Thanks Sam
I've never had any problem growing hot peppers until about 5 years ago. I grow cayennes every 2-3 years (mostly for drying) and they're fine but for the last few years my jalapenos have been heat-less. I grow them outdoors in pots so they don't get as much water as the (irrigated) veg patch. They're against a brick patio pillar that gets north and west sun (hottest sun here). I've tried different sources of seed to no avail. What else can I do to to grow them as spicy as they're meant to be?
Hi Ben, I'm planning on using straw bales (as per your video) to grow tomatoes in the greenhouse this year, do you think chilli peppers could grow in the bales or would it be best to plant into a container?
Last year I planted my tomatoes and peppers in large pots with basil around the edges of the pots and had zero pest problems
I'm going to do the same this year to see if it wasn't just luck
Scotch bonnets this year Ben.
I've grown Santa-Fe Grande for years, saving seeds each year from the fattest fleshed fruits. I reckon I am starting to see a difference now in that the walls are as thick as bell peppers but still have heat. Love the Santa-Fe Grande because they are mild enough to be eaten halved with melted cheese (yum) and there is always that one bad-boy in amongst the sheep… a chilli lottery. Great video, you're like my old neighbour on steroids.