I grow in 5 gal. pails using MiracleGro potting media.

wow! nice asst. of chili peppers!

Try getting you seeds from somewhere other than eBay--much of the seeds on there lead to disappointment. Try pepperlover.com or one of the other many legit pepper seeddealers

You are probably too hot in the summer for the hot peppers, but a great place to try is Chile Plants she has all the peppers you could ask for although the season is done up here.

That strong summer sun in Fla is too much for the pepper plants.

well they came from India...and it is hotter there. but it is much drier. If i grow them in partial shade i do get plants,and blooms,but few peppers that stay on the plant. Maybe next spring. I start them inside a month or so before putting them outside.

I had to move mine out of the midday sun here. They were always wilted and sunscald on the pods. I placed them in an area that was shady from noon onward and had great success with all of the plants.

Super hots like temps 60° +/- 5 at night and 85° during the day as per the norm. Water slowly but thoroughly when they are almost dry.

Wow, the sun was brutal on my plants here Marianne. I know my son in the SFV has issues over the summer with the hot peppers, too. He said his sweet peppers and jalapeno grow great, but the bhuts struggle greatly there.

All my leaves were pale in color and just not full in appearance. I wonder why the partial sun made such a difference here for me.

'Marianne'. I do everything for my plants. BUT these super hot peppers are the one veg. I cant grow without problems galore.9besides all other veg. during the summer,none grow here then.

Yea you would think south Fla. wouldnt be to hot for HOT peppers! Thats what i naturally thought. But the 'real temp' all summer in the sun,no shade is 108-111 from 11am to 3pm! Thats not the official temp. But the temp. in my yard from my electronic thermometers I have. And the peppers burn up like they are dry brush! I think it is the humidity here that is the downfall. Like I keep saying, they come from India, and that is bone dry HEAT/sun. So it must be the humidity. Arizona is dry I know, so you must have them in some shade at the hottest part of the day, and you dont have the humidity to deal with. Do you get peppers and they set and ripen? The plants dont scorch? You see others, 'Jim' in Long Island, he has trouble with much lower temps.than down here, and in direct sun up there he has troubles. It must be the humidity. There are some HOT peppers that grow here,but they are not the SUPER hot Bhuts.

When I start them inside under grow lights, they grow huge, and fast, very hard to do from seed. but it is air conditioned in here. Then I put them outside, they grow to a point, in a BIG pot, it gets HOT and humid, then the leaves start to droop/scorch/and I put them in partial shade, they pick up, set some blooms, but the peppers dont stay on long enough to get great amounts of peppers. I have gotten some, but I want to try again, and will this WINTER. That is our veg. season here, less humid, not as much rain, and only like 4 days of 40-50 days! Thats all we get. Thats winter:) So I am starting a few seeds now. Hope they sprout, they are a year old now. They need to be super fresh to germ. but now is the time to get the seedlings up and going, to go outside in 2 months or so. They HATE to much rain/water, and humidity. You are very lucky. got any picc. of your pepper plants? Love to see them.

Picked a few scorpions, reapers and ghosts this morning, had the best growing season ever this year

My gosh! You gonna be selling some seeds? Esp. of the Reapers???

I'm giving them to a local market to sell as Super Hot Chili's they will be gone by Friday

Too hot in Florida for peppers? Maybe if you are living in Crazytown.

well all i can come up with is that it is to humid in south Fla. to get these super hot peppers. They come from India, it is hot and DRY there. so a wet summer and humidity equals mildew and no peppers. They grow big, but dont set peppers if they are wet all the time.

I don't think there has been a dry day all summer here and the peppers are doing fine. I find that the rainy months actually produce hotter peppers. And just as an fyi, "the Scorpion Pepper" you are talking about comes from Trinidad, NOT INDIA. (<--- see what I did there... all caps in internet forums are read as shouting, not emphasis.)

I am assuming you either live in Miami, or Naples, or somewhere close to those places. I grew up in Hollywood and I know the coastal areas almost never get as hot as it does in the middle of the state. If your thermometer is hanging on the west wall, than it could get that hot, or anywhere else you get reflective heat. So how often do you water your peppers? I have to hand water mine every single morning, and in the summer, I was getting shriveled leaves by 3-4 pm and had to water them a second time. I think if you had watered just a bit more when they were shaded, you might have had more peppers to stay on the plant.

If you want to experiment, put it on a shady area under cover from the direct impact of rain, which will discount what happens when the plant gets rained on too much. Try a cheap automatic watering system. I bought a 30 inch capillary pad for about $12. I cut it in 2 inch strips. Most of the strip, I cut in half. When you pot the plant, which I use 3 gallon pots, the entire piece hangs out 3 inches through the center hole. The rest, which is split in half is placed in the pot so that as you as more soil, it will divide the pot in 3 equal amounts. I usually put the tips on either side of the root area of the plant being planted. Place the pot on top of a tupperware with a hole in the middle and insert the bottom piece of capillary pad. Now you have something that will constantly water your plant from the bottom. Just keep the Tupperware filled up and your pepper plant will do great and get covered with peppers. If you incorporate a time release fertilizer like "Dynamite" from HD, it will also automatically fertilize the plant for most of the season. I am using 360 day Nutricote, so it literally lasts all year.

I have about 300 pepper plants and they love Florida