Here is a video of the plants now.  Most of the hot pepper plants were grown from seeds and it has been just over three months.  Many of the plants have flowered and some even have some peppers starting.  One of the Bhut Jolokia (Ghost Pepper) plants is really taking off and has atleast one pepper starting.

I also showed some of the habanero peppers harvested off the plant that I bought.  There were three plants and two died.  The last plant seems to be doing well and we have harvest twelve orange habanero peppers from it already. 

I am excited to try some of the more exotic hot peppers that will be ready in the near future.

A couple of days ago another Bhut Jolokia sprouted.  This one popped out of the dirt over two months after being planted and weeks after the other two Ghost Pepper plants.  I am very excited to try some fresh Ghost Peppers this fall, we should have a huge harvest! 

Josh, the Hot Sauce Virgin is not so excited about these.  These peppers are going to be a big jump, not to mention Josh has vomited every pepper that he has eaten so far.  We just filmed a Serrano Pepper trial which will be posted this week, check that out to see what I mean!

I am now seeing the results of the seeds that were planted. I planted a total of six Bhut Jolokia seeds (Ghost Pepper) and three seeds of the Cajamarca, Aji Limon, Red Caribbean Habanero, and Uba Tuba (Christmas Bell). I have two Bhut Jolokia plants and a total of seven plants of the other four varieties.

I also bought three Orange Habanero plants from Home Depot. One of the plants had exposed roots and did not survive. The other two Habanero pepper plants are doing great and already have peppers on them. I am looking forward to a great harvest this summer and fall.

I will keep you updated monthly on the progress.

At the Fiery Foods Festival I picked up seeds of some peppers that aren’t very common.  I got Red Caribbean Habaneros, Cajamarcas, Uba Tubas (Christmas Bell), Aji Limon, and of course the Bhut Jolokia (Ghost Pepper).   Once the peppers are ready Josh and I will be sampling the peppers for your viewing pleasure.  That should be really interesting.

I planted a few of each about two weeks ago and most of the peppers have already sprouted.  The Bhut Jolokias are the only ones that have not sprouted yet and that is normal as they will take almost twice as long as other peppers to sprout and grow. 

All of the peppers are planted in pots with a somewhat coarse soil designated for cactus and palms.  I put the seeds approximately half an inch deep into the soil and have been keeping them watered.  You have to make sure that once these have sprouted that they don’t see temperatures below 50 degrees over night. 

For those of you interested in growing peppers, I will post updates with pictures of the peppers as the grow.