Category Archives: Pepper Freak

Loads of Chile Information

I ran across this website today after it’s owner placed a comment on one of my posts.  His website is very informative.  You can find lots of helpful information on different varieties of ......

2012 Pepper Season

Ah, the 2012 Chile pepper season is almost upon us.  I am getting very excited this year as I will be growing all new strains that I have never worked with.  I’ve collected over 20 varieti......

The Naga Viper DOES NOT strip paint!

Unless you’ve been encased in ice the last few weeks, you’ve all already heard of the dreaded Naga Viper from http://www.chileseeds.co.uk/.   Currently listed as the hottest chile p......

New Year, New Season

So, I’ve officially used up every pod from this past season.  A little early for my taste as I’d like them to last a LOT longer.  I went a little crazy and my mouth has thanked me fo......

Bhut Jolokia Mexican Lasagna

So this a good recipe that my wife cued me in on.  I just took the original mexican lasagna recipe and tweaked a little.  Ok… I add jolokia’s, so I guess I tweaked it a lot. For thi......

Freezing Hot Chile Peppers

You may or may not know, but there are multiple ways to preserve your freshly harvested peppers.  In this post, we will only be covering one of those methods.  That is freezing the peppers. T......

August up date on the growing season.

So I haven’t posted in a while.  All of my chile’s are doing wonderful.  I’ve harvested around 20-30 Bhut Jolokia’s, 15 Turkish Cayenne, and multiple banana peppers.  The......

Been a While…

Sorry I’ve been away for so long.  With a new baby in the house, working full time and School 17 hours a week, it can be tough to update your blog. I have TONSSS of photos from this season......

Installing Drip Irrigation system

So I decided to get moving on the drip system since May is coming very soon.   The baby will be here within the next 3 weeks so if I didn’t get this done now, I wasn’t going to do it......

‘Chili-heads’ seek friendly fire from powerful pepper

By Sara Bonisteel, CNN http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/homestyle/04/14/chile.heads.seek.heat/?hpt=Sbin (CNN) — India may be turning the world’s hottest chili into a weapon, but there......

Spring is almost here

I started re-potting and moving everything into the basement.   I am putting them all under a 400 watt high pressure sodium bulb to pre harden them for the summer sun. Here are some photos…......

Changing the setup

So I decided to change my setup slightly.  I took away the Compact fluorescents and added tubes.  The light didn’t spread out enough with the CFL’s and the tubes allow me to hover th......

Visual Differences in Different Chile Strains

It’s amazing to me how beautiful Chile plants can get, and how much different Chile plants look as they start to get bigger.  When all the genes start kicking in, the plant turns to differ......

What makes peppers hot?

Some of you might be curious to why your mouth gets that wonderful (or not so wonderful) burning sensation whenever you eat a chile.  The answer comes from chemicals found inside all chile pepp......

Seedling Update

I came home today and saw a few photo opportunities after lifting the lid of the germinating hot house. I was able to snap a few photos of some of the varieties that are sprouting already. Here......