First timer for 6 very hot pepper plants

[FILMNET]

I could get some help here I hope, this is my first time growing these. I started them inside in Feb, here in the Northeast. Transplanted May24 all survived, here is the list, Scorpion, Fatilli, Red Carribean, Red Bhut, yellow Bhut, and Thai Bird.
I have grown the Thai bird before and i know about them but not the others. I am looking for the names on line? all these names/seeds are not for sale. So do i have old seeds? the plants are great and all have green fruits, I do not know when they are done, color

[Boutique Tomatoes]

Check for pictures at thehotpepper.com, you should find all of those there.

[FILMNET]

I have been there on this website
Trinidad Scorpion Plants or other name are there with scorpion

Same with Red Carribean there is no name of this only Red Carribean something, so maybe who gave me seeds wrote the names smaller as, Scorpion only?

[Boutique Tomatoes]

Oh, I gotcha. Yes, there are multiple varieties of peppers with Scorpion in their names, but I don't know of one called simply Scorpion.

Red Caribbean or Caribbean Red is common shorthand for the Red Caribbean habanero, this is a picture of what mine looked like last year.

[FILMNET]

Is my list very hot one Mark? I don't eat them only cook with them. Can any of these dry? should I freeze some? How do you use them? Thanks Steve

[Skaggydog]

Some of the very hot peppers were developed as weapons and not food. They are becoming real popular and many people are going to the hospital after being poisoned by them. Children are going to pay a price, I'm sure.

[Boutique Tomatoes]

They weren't developed as weapons, that's a myth; however some of them have been evaluated as weapons as a source of pepper spray. Most of them were landrace peppers that were cultivated by locals in areas that eat a lot of spicy food.

I do grow mine in a fenced in garden to prevent any accidents from small kids intriqued by the pretty colors and will probably stop growing them when my boys hit the "I dare you..." stupid stage of male adolescence. Unless the hospital puts you in a coma there isn't much they can do but watch you ride it out if you're unprepared to pay the price, so start small and avoid the placenta material at first.

I make sauces and powders/flakes with mine, although I have people who do chop them up and eat them. If you haven't tried the supers before, try a small piece and have yogurt or ice cream handy and just remember that for most people the worst is only going to last 4-10 minutes.

They do have unique flavors once you develop a tolerance for them. I personally don't like the flavor of the bhuts, but grow them because they have a different burn. Added in small amounts to other superhots it changes the heat profile of a sauce. Kind of like blending whisky to get the flavor you're after.

[tjg911]

sounds like you got those except for thai bird from me. yes the seed is new it is from the 2011 season. all but the fatalii came from peppers mark sent to me and i saved seeds. the fatalii is from my plants in 2011.

tom

[Boutique Tomatoes]

Yes, you just can't find much about them because there aren't that many places selling them. They're for a 'special' market of hotheads.

More than likely the one labeled Scorpion is the landrace red Trinidad Scorpion. I don't remember if I sent Tom any yellow scorpions, but if I did their shape is distinctly different than the red.

[FILMNET]

Thanks Tom last year i did not try them, put you did send them to me. The plants are 24-36" high and growing nice all fruit are green, i will left them get the color and cut them off. I would like to dry them.

[tjg911]

wow that picture you sent to me mark is causing much trouble. i can't copy and paste it here, it is GINORMUS, 2 meg. i tried to resize it and i lost control of my computer. alt ctrl del wouldn't even bring up task manager but after a while it did but i couldn't end any tasks. what a mess! i shut it down and it wouldn't shut down. all this over 15 minutes.

i did not want to type but i can't get the picture in this post so...you sent me yellow scorpion CARDI strain, trinidad scorpion, trinidad yellow scorpion and 5 others not germane to filmnet's or your comments.

tom

[Boutique Tomatoes]

That explains why I deleted it then. I went looking for it today and couldn't find it.

Here is what the yellow CARDI Trinidad Scorpion would look like, they're larger than the landrace variety I posted above and have a fairly distinct "stinger".

[roper2008]

I dry all of mine. Don't eat them fresh except jalapeno's
and serrano's. I have to use a dehydrator because they
would mold if I tried to air dry them here. You should be
able to freeze them too, but they would be mushy when
you defrost them.
If you taste the peppers. I would just try a sliver, you
have some very hot one's there.

Mark, are those your pictures? Beautiful peppers.

[FILMNET]

Thanks Roper, all my plants have nice green fruits now, i would take pic now to show you guys what the names are? if correct? but i wouldn't bother till some new colors are on them

[Boutique Tomatoes]

Yes, my proposed retirement hobby is making hot sauce and salsas from heirloom ingredients and selling seeds for the varieties used. I take a lot of pictures for the web site I never have time to get working on.