Spice up Your Dish: Grow Hot Peppers from Seed

Some legends about the heat of hot peppers go so far in describing their heat powers that comparing to them an average volcanic eruption would look like a cold shower. For this reason I’ve decided to make a small research on the hottest peppers in the world. Meanwhile, I’ve run into more interesting facts about growing hot peppers from seed that I’d also like to share with you.  

Spice up Your Dish: Grow Hot Peppers from Seed

Top 10 World’s Hottest Peppers

Here’s an answer to your unasked question – SHU (Scoville Heat Unit) is a measure that determines the level of spiciness in hot peppers. I’m proud of the fact that out of top 10 world’s hottest peppers I’ve managed to try 2 and lived to talk about it (check out below the links to my 2 hot pepper choices).

The list of the world’s most famous red fire makers looks like this:

1.    Carolina Reaper

2.    Trinidad Moruga Scorpion

3.    7 Pot Douglah

4.    7 Pot Primo

5.    Trinidad Scorpion Butch T

6.    Naga Viper

7.    Bhut Jolokia (Ghost Pepper)

8.    7 Pot Barrackpore

9.    7 Pot Red

10. Red Savina Habanero

I realize that the list requires some explaining, so I’ll start from the 7 pot group. The name of the group is related to the saying that these are hot enough to spice 7 pots of stew.

Another interesting thing to know is that in 2007, the Guinness World Records confirmed that Bhut Jolokia (Ghost Pepper), at that time the world’s hottest chili pepper, is 400 times hotter than Tabasco sauce.

How to Grow Hot Peppers

Before going further to growing details I must say that I like moderate hot peppers rather than super flammable ones. Even though hot peppers may actually help you protect your stomach, you should still be careful when consuming them. That is why I would suggest less hot varieties such as Red Flame Chili Pepper, Cayenne Chile Pepper and Hungarian Yellow Wax Hot.

Regardless of the pepper variety, note that almost all peppers can be grown outdoors and indoors. They grow best in warm environment with full sun.

Hot peppers love well-drained, fertile soil, rich in organic matter. And people love to use hot peppers as a perfect spice for dishes or vegetable soups made of beans, zucchini or tomatoes.

How hot in hot peppers is too hot for you?