My thai pepper plant

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Last batch some jerk stole all my peppers.

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Hope that jerk didn't even burn his mouth with them.

[–]Airbus320 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Are they very strong?

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They're about 10 tens times hotter than jalapenos, but they're still relatively low on the scoville scale (100,000). About 1/3 as hot as most habaneros.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Homemade pepper-spray?

[–]Froglich 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (4 children)

Thai peppers are the main ingredient in most male enhancement salves.

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Wow, I certainly wouldn't put a salve of this on my junk, ouch!

[–]Airbus320 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

Lets give it to s/bpf then

[–]Froglich 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I hadn't heard of bpf.

That sub is friggin awesome.

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No males allowed to comment.

No boys allowed! Ha, this sounds like an offshoot of the trufemcells.

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I help care for all the plants I've posted btw, but some are at my parent's place. They get more sun and things grow better there.

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These are beauties. Is this thai pepper a multi-year plant that gets overwintered? Is that like a 5 gallon pot, or even bigger?

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Oh wait, I think I messed up the country of origin, the thai peppers grow down, the Philippines one grows up.

Red bird's eye chili are commonly mislabeled as siling labuyo in Philippine markets. But they are actually a chili pepper cultivar from a different species (Capsicum annuum) that came by way of Thailand. Their fruits, unlike C. frutescens, are borne on the plant drooping down.

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I remember reading that from when I still hadn't identified my goat weed peppers, and thought they were as Thai as the Kim I got them from. Kim spoke no English, and was a tiny, ancient Thai woman.

https://www.amazon.com/Goats-Weed-Hot-Pepper-Seeds/dp/B079R2JXVP

Shows the transition from green to black to red. It's harder to see, but the stems and leaves are fuzzy with tiny hairs.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

It's a perennial, it'll produce for years as long as me or Gizzie doesn't kill it, but it also doesn't usually produce the first year. That's why when Gizzie killed my plants I was broken, they took a year just to grow before they produced.

I believe it is 5 gallons although it wasn't listed on the planter, it seems as big as my 5 gal buckets. It's not bigger, there's a bit of decorative facade around it that makes it seem bigger.

The species I believe is actually siling labuyo because the peppers grow pointing upwards instead of hanging down like normal. I got the seeds from my wife's coworker and she didn't know what they were so that's totally my identification but I think I'm right.

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They don't look like actual Thai peppers. They're supposed to be pointy.

Wait, do you mean they're "from Thailand" instead of "Thai Pepper"?

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I think they're Siling Labuyo, so should have said Pinoy peppers, but I don't really know. The person I got the peppers I grew the seeds from has no idea what they are but I think they are Filipino. It's my best identification reading I can manage.

They go from green to yellow to orange to a deep red, if that helps id them. They're really hot to me, but I'm not a pepperhead, 100k scoville seems reasonable imo.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Same heat as actual Thais then.

My favorites are Red Lava Habaneros, about 500k scovilles, taste like black cherries and very hot.

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Only $678.85 for 5,000,000 seeds.

https://www.seedway.com/product/red-lava-habanero-type-pepper-treated-seed/

The google only has the one result for Red Lava Habaneros, but they're not real Habaneros?

Check out this other result. Click on the main page to see an odd number of hot pepper product listings for up to thousands of dollars, while the site itself appears non-professional af.

https://ghost-powder.com/1-pound-apocalypse-red-lava-scorpion-powder.html

My usual supplier of Carolina Reaper powder is out of stock atm, so this interests me, but the site seems sketchy.

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I wouldn't trust it one bit.

They are real habaneros, just not one of the basic (yellow, orange) types. The Red Savina came about as a mutation/cultivar and so did the Red Lava. People cross types all the time to create new ones.

If I didn't value my privacy a whole lot, I'd offer to mail you some Red Lava seeds. But I do. Sigh.

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You have seeds? You would only compromise your privacy if I sent you seeds. Put a fake return address on the envelope and send me some! I'll send you a PM if that keeps enough of your privacy.

Starting them asap would probably get a yield by fall. I just have a problem with a very tall redwood that the sun starts dropping behind in a few months. But they overwinter here just fine.

Almost all the seeds I put in wet paper towel have popped, and am transferring to dirt tomorrow.

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Red Lava Habaneros

Do you have a source or more info on those? The google isn't coming up with anything except that sketchy site.

https://files.catbox.moe/5vof2b.jpg

Seeds I sent to Middle_Path for the 2019 seed exchange on voat, in the v/JustGrowIt sub. Then uniformed government agents came to all of our houses.

Those "asian hot peppers" turned out to be the Goat Weed pepper, which would have been a hit on voat if I had known.

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All I know is what I got from growing them: they are easy, like most Habs, they are smaller than normal habs, they are big producers, better than orange habs.

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Nice. I have a few from last year that are starting to bloom. Also finally just got some seeds of a few other hot pepper types started. Only a few months late. Hopefully they'll produce some before the sun drops behind that huge redwood tree.

Currently growing: Aleppo, Urfa Biber, Goat Weed, Aji Amarillo, Habanero, and Albanian Red Hot.

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I was trying to grow Aji Pena from seeds a redditor friend send me but no look getting the seeds to germinate normally, I'm gonna have to try the paper towel method.

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I've been starting with the paper towel method for years. Once they show they're viable, transplant to 6 packs or whatever you use for new seedlings.

They're fairly resilient on the paper towel as long as you keep them wet. Have had some get an inch tall on paper towel before transplanting to soil.

The Aji Pena is pretty mild, Maybe it takes more time? The hotter peppers seem to take longer to germinate. Have had some pop within two days. Carolina Reapers took almost 5 weeks to pop.

http://thehotpepper.com/

Everything hot peppers. Forums, sales, discussions, pics, etc.

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Wow I have not visited that forum in years!

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I just use the peat pucks, but wet them with colloidal silver to make sure no bacteria or fungi hinder them.