Don't like eggplant? Fine...how about peppers!

[NRaleighLiberal]

Pictures taken yesterday on my blog - http://nctomatoman.weebly.com/1/post/2013/07/and-more-positives-peppers.html

Some of these are varieties I've developed by "dehybridizing" the pepper Islander (a hybrid, goes from cream to lavender to red). Amethyst (cream to lavender to red), Candy Corn (cream to orange red), Fire Opal (cream to lavender to golden yellow), Royal Purple (chartreuse to dark purple to red), and the unpictured White Gold (cream to golden yellow) - most are at the 6th or 7th generation following initial selection.

No pictures of Trinidad Scorpion Butch T yet (supposedly among the world's hottest peppers!)....they are just about to set fruit.

[opiate69]

1. Love peppers!! In fact, I have a question you might be able to help with...

I have a Thai Dragon Chili plant and a Habanero plant in a 3'X 3' container outside, along with an early girl tomato plant and another tomato which I can't remember what variety it is. Each of these plants are sitting in one corner of the container All of them are doing brilliantly, except my poor Habanero. They were all planted at the same time and get the same amount of sun, water, food etc but that Habanero is just not growing at all and what little leaves it still has are tiny and look shrivelled.. any tips or ideas? Thanks, NCRL!

[femmocrat]

2. Those purple ones are so pretty!

Does your family eat all those peppers?

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. we eat lots....on salads, grill, dehydrate and grind, and freeze.

so yes, we somehow manage to use them all!

[Curmudgeoness]

4. Are you talking to me???????

Mmmmmmm, peppers. Although I think that I will pass on the "Trinidad Scorpion Butch T" if you don't mind.

I have never seen so many beautiful peppers! I especially like sweet peppers, but love to use hot peppers in cooking. Forget about me eating them whole like I do with the sweet ones. I eat Bell Peppers like apples. Those purples are intriguing, and beautiful.

Just so you can get a good laugh at my expense, last year I was given a peck of hot peppers. I set to work cleaning them and dicing them for freezing. I contemplated wearing gloves, but hate using gloves, and they didn't feel like they were that hot....no burning on my hands. Well, this is easy to guess......when I was done with the whole peck, I washed my hands. And they stung. And they started to burn. And get hotter and hotter. That whole night, I was one misery lady. But I am not stupid....I will not do that again.

If I remember correctly, I was here on DU asking for help.

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. I did that a few years ago - saved seed from dozens of types of hot peppers, gloveless.

Thought I washed my hands well. Got up in the middle of the night to pee.

Unbearable Pain....the true Fire Down Below!

showered- my wife asked me why I was showering at 3 AM.

I am much more careful now!

[Curmudgeoness]

6. I suppose that I was very lucky then.

The hands burned so much that I just knew not to touch anything else.

[maddezmom]

7. I shouldn't laugh

But I am.