I just picked up 5 ghost pepper plants myself the other day. I've always grown Jalapenos and other peppers but never messed with any of the serious stuff like ghost peppers or carolina reepers.
I happenned to be at a local garden store the other day and saw they had them and figured I have to pick these up. I wound up getting 5 of them, the guy at the register was like are you sure you need 5 lol. I guess they grow pretty large and produce a lot of peppers right?
My plants are maybe 4-5 inches tall so I'm guessing a few weeks old at least. I hear peppers are about 100 to 130 days from germination is that correct ? Guessing I should have them sometime in August
Sometimes they can months to truly produce, but getting hundreds of peppers per plant is not unheard of. Thankfully, they also dehydrate well if you cut them in half.
You may want to try this recipe I created. Many have been seriously impressed with it.
https://steemit.com/food/@papa-pepper/finally-papa-s-secret-recipe-green-ghost-salsa-released-for-the-first-time-ever-on-steemit
I heard the soil needs to be kept pretty warm. I live in Chicago. I wound up planting one in a pot and the rest in the soil. Do you have any advice in terms of which is better? Downside to my garden is if we get a cold snap I can't bring them inside. I've been trying to keep them moist as we've been having some 90 something degree days here but making sure they aren't soaked.
Thanks for sharing the salsa recipe, I love a good salsa, especially tomatillo salsa's and my gf's family is Mexican so I'm sure they'll enjoy it as well were always competing for who can find the best salsa. I got a few more months to wait for my peppers but soon as they are ripe I'll be trying this out. Thanks again.