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Hot Peppers
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Is it hot in here or is it just the peppers?
Pepper Recipes curtesy of Mike Hultquist
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You've discovered that peppers are actually perennials, we just treat them like annuals in the US because they die in cold weather. We have wild chiltepin aka birds eye peppers (50K scoville) growing in our yard in Texas and they're particularly frost tolerant, moreso than domesticated varieties, but similarly they die back every year and I chop them low to the ground. They grow back bigger the next year and put off hundreds of peppers every summer. Take care of it and that tabasco will do great!!
Yeah, and also how hardy they are. She was in the same 3 liter pot with almost no nutrients, the same dirt and been treated like shit for most of these 5 years. I "cut" her main stem off with a dull paper scissor...
I have a fish pepper plant I’ve been abusing for a few years similarly.
It just won’t die.
It looks like shit but every growing season it perks up and throws leaves and hides its ugly deformed body.
I'm going to check out that chilltepin birds eye. Our chillies usually don't survive winter, so I would love to have some plants that do. And I like birds eye a lot, so I see this as an absolute win either way.