Hot pepper adventure

SUPER HOT PEPPER SEEDLINGS

Join me as I embark on a journey of discovering what are super hot peppers. Initially, I didn't have any idea why they are called Super Hot peppers except that they are probably more spicy that the common table pepper that I have tried. Anyway, I got interested when I saw a video during my random scan of You Tube.

I decided therefore to plant a few varieties  and find for myself just what are these super hot peppers, how they look and probably try tasting some of them, how hot they really are. The heat of a pepper is measured in SHU (Scoville Heat unit), and to have a comparison, or reference, the Bell pepper has zero (0) SHU, Jalapeno pepper is supposed to have around 2,000 SHU, the Habanero at 5,000 , the Scotch Bonnet at 200,000, Ghost pepper is at 800,000, the Carolina Reaper which is listed in the Guinness Book of world records as the hottest pepper (as of this writing) was measured at 2,200,000 SHU (Whew!). 

In this adventure, I will look at the Jalapeno, the Habaneros (Red and Yellow), the Scotch Bonnet, the Ghost pepper (Marusot) and of course the Carolina Reaper. I ordered online seeds for these six (6) varieties and planted them in a cup. I do not know how reliable my seller is, so I really am not sure whether the labels of the seeds are what they really are. Well, I probably will know it when they bear fruits or pods. I have joined a Pepper Growing forum and I will surely consult the them when the time comes.

Below are pictures showing how the seedlings look after 2 weeks.

The seedlings have 2 leaves only at this time which are just the cotyledons, and I am hoping to see the first set of true leaves after a few days.  I will post another update after a week and hopefully the pepper plants have developed their first set of true leaves by then.

See you in a week or so.

 

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