Hey Jason, have you tasted them to see if they are hot or sweet?

They're definitely hot, that's all that he and I grow. I usually grow a variety of habaneros because I eat them a lot, but he has fun with experimenting :-)

I picked the red one just after posting this thread, but haven't tried it yet.

I'm not sure if the yellow one is ripe or if it's supposed to turn color. The brown around the stem makes me suspect that it's done, but that's really just an educated guess.

Some type of jalapeno perhaps?

I'd be surprised, he and I both rarely grow anything under 100,000 SHUs. I originally thought that the yellow one would be a Scotch Bonnet, but I'm not sure.

Jason, has your friend ever grown Dorcet Naga? Does it taste like it's 1,000,000 SHU?🔥🥵

I'm not familiar with them myself, but he's from Laos and knows a LOT more about peppers than I do! I'll ask him this weekend :-)

He grows ghost peppers (which I don't really like) and Carolina Reapers (which I love), though, which I think would have a bit more heat than the Dorset Naga. But I'm reading that the Naga has a fruitier flavor, so now I'm intrigued!

I asked him, @Jay 6a Chicago, he said that he's familiar with them but never tried one. I think I'll order some seeds (they're only like $7 from Hippy Seeds), so maybe we can try them next year :-)

You're only an 11 hour drive, come on over and try them with us!

It sounds very tempting Jason, maybe I will. Ive been wanting to visit the southeast again. Thanks for the invite! So if you guys are both growing several varieties of chilis, is there a chance the ones your asking about could be hybrids? This talk is making me hunger for something hot. Think I'll make some hot pickled vegetables.

A hybrid is entirely possible! My friend likes to play around with cross pollination like that, but I struggle just to get anything so if I did that it'd definitely be an accident! LOL

His family owns a few Thai restaurants, definitely come down and we'll experiment with some different peppers! It'll be fun :-)

When I was a kid, we had a cousin from Chicago and her son come stay with us for awhile. He was maybe 12 or 13, my town blew his mind! He'd never seen a cow in real life, so the fact that we could walk down the road and cows would come up to us to get petted just amazed him! LOL And he was SO scared of my dad's chickens!!!

I live about 40 miles south of the city of Chicago. There were a lot more farm fields around my area, when I was a kid, and there still are quite a few. I've seen cows and many other animals all my life. I had never seen hummingbirds until I started gardening and growing plants that attracted them. My dad was in his 70s and he had never seen a hummingbird all his life, until he saw one in my garden. There are many plant species in North Carolina that I'd love to see. The species that I can't grow up here. When I was there several years ago, I wasn't knowledgable about the flora, so a lot of plants were just foreign and unknown, but now I know the majority of species growing there, and I keep discovering new ones all the time from the botanists working there. I love Thai food.

Man, I grew up here and STILL find plants I don't recognize! LOL My dad grew up in a much different way, he was literally in the middle of the woods and his dad (my grandpa) picked wild plants to sell to the local pharmacy. Dad recognized every plant you could point at, better than any of my plant apps! LOL

When I was a kid we would hike through the woods, and I'd just point at random things for him to name. Now I realize he probably lied about half of them, it's not like I'd ever know! Hahahaha!

He passed in January, though (COVID), and took all of that knowledge with him :-(

The cousin I mentioned grew up in the city and had spent his entire life walking between about 6 blocks, so I'm not sure he'd ever even seen grass before he visited. I'm not even joking.

I think if I looked at a list of all the plant species in North Carolina, I'd probably only know about 30 percent of them, and ferns, lichens and bryophites I'm pretty much clueless about Lol. It would be great to meet someone like your grandfather who has all that folk wisdom about the plants and their herbal uses. That was back at a time when all those plants grew in abundance and people still used plants for medicine until John D. Rockefeller changed the laws so people would be forced to use chemicals and petroleum based drugs and the money all came to him. The beginnings of Big Pharma. Now there are too many people, and now, many unscrupulous people poach the higher quality species like American Ginseng and Unicorn Root to make a quick buck, and these species are coming close to extirpation everywhere, and continual 'developenent' is even more to blame. The great thing about the Carolinas is there are still vast unspoiled areas that you can get lost in, or find yourself again in. Southern Illinois still has a nice amount of unspoiled wilderness too. On my last visit down there I visited Biltmore Estate and traveled the Smoky Mountain Parkway?, and actually drove though a cloud which was really cool. I'm kicking myself still for not exploring any of those mountainsides. I was shocked to see forests completely smothered with kudzu, and a mountainside where someone's bamboo had gotten loose. I'm pretty sure it was an Asian bamboo, but you do have native cane down there too. There used to be vast impenetrable swathes of native cane that couldn't be traveled through. Going back to chilis for a minute, I find it a bit difficult to discern any unique flavors when I get up into the habanero range of heat, and my mouth is totally on fire Lol. I sometimes get carried away and add too many serranos to chili and the people eating it are comlaining their mouths are on fire. I'm kind of intrigued now and want to start expermenting with the hotter types. I'm not sure if any grocers even sell ghost peppers around here. There's this miracle berry that you can eat and it makes sour, tart things like raw lemons taste sweet. I wonder if it would have an effect on hot chilis? I watched a video of a contest to see who could rub the most ghost chilis into their eyes. It was hilarious. You have to wash your hands real good after touching those red hot chilis or you will pay the price later Lol.

It was the Blue Ridge Parkway. I think there might have been a winery at Biltmore Estate when I was there. I remember the bowling alley in the basement. So, was Doc Watson married to your aunt? Wasn't he your grandfather's son in law?

https://youtu.be/gLjOoVyGKls?si=Ohdekp_PHXrLPjPx

Yup, that's exactly right! RosaLee was my dad's sister.

I watched the video, I could definitely make it through Round 8 :-) But jumping from a Scotch Bonnet to a Komodo Dragon might have gotten me! LOL

The chili contest was hillarious. I doubt I'd be able to buy Carolina Reapers anywhere around here.🥵

You can't find them here, either, that's why my friend and I grow them. I just recently talked the local Lowes Food into carrying orange habaneros, and I think that's the hottest pepper you can buy here.

I have to admire Shen. Throughout the comp, she looked very much in pain, while Dave seemed to be just going for a walk in the park.

FYI. Down here, in West Coenwall, I can buy Scotch Bonnets at the local Asda supermarket.

fleet farm had the reapers this year. had two of them. takes a LONG time to fruit