Where can I get some of them Doomsday Peppers?

[Will Carry]

I have heard of Habaneros and Ghost peppers buy I have never heard of Doomsday Peppers. They sound hotter than blue blazes.

Edited March 31, 2012 by Will Carry

[enfield]

[Emily Litella] Nevermind!! [/Emily Litella]

[JAB]

I don't think they are a type of pepper so much as a way to package/store/grow them. For instance, I bought this at the hot sauce shop this past weekend. It is supposed to be soil and ready to grow seeds in a can. You just pop the top on the can, give it the right amount of sun and so on and the plant (in this case, a bhut jolokia aka ghost pepper) is supposed to grow, mature and produce fruit right in the can. I ordered one of these with a ghost pepper and one with a 'scorpion pepper' - which has supposedly taken the title of 'world's hottest' away from the ghost pepper - from a seed catalog a couple of months ago but they haven't arrived, yet. When I saw them at the hot sauce shop I decided to go ahead and get one. Unfortunately, they didn't have any of the scorpion pepper.

If this works, it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to keep a few of these 'in storage'. After all, who wants to survive the Apocalypse only to eat bland, boring food? That, then, just might qualify these as 'Doomsday Peppers.'

Edited April 2, 2012 by JAB

[Garufa]

You might get one or two peppers off a plant grown in a can, if even that. Pepper plants get huge and have massive root systems.

[JAB]

You might get one or two peppers off a plant grown in a can, if even that. Pepper plants get huge and have massive root systems.

Yeah, I know. I've grown habaneros, jalapenos, serranos, anaheims, poblanos, cayennes and New Mexico red chiles for the past, few years. Even made some homemade hot sauces and fired up the smoker then the dehydrator and made my own chipotles (using pecan wood, one of the 'correct' woods for the process.) This is mostly an experiment as I haven't grown ghost peppers, before, or even seen seeds available. I figure that, if nothing else, I can harvest seeds from the few peppers it does produce and plant them in a more 'normal' manner next year. I guess one could always use the can to start the seed then transfer the plant.

Last year, a buddy of mine got some fresh ghost peppers for me from a produce stand. I dried them, pulverized them and used them (along with peppers from my garden and some other herbs and spices) to make a home made chili powder. I should have saved some seeds but didn't think of it until it was too late.

Still, even a couple of ghost chiles can go a long way toward sprucing up beans and rice for several days. As such, I still think these could have applications as 'doomsday peppers.'

Edited April 2, 2012 by JAB

[daddyo]

[Emily Litella] Nevermind!! [/Emily Litella]

LOL. "What's all this I hear about 'Doomsday peppers'?"

Man, I miss Gilda Radner.

Edited April 3, 2012 by DaddyO