Veggie Gardeners. Need your help!

I am not sure about your particular pepper but I am assuming you would allow the seeds to dry on a paper plate for a week or so. Then you can dry store them ine a ziplock baggy in the fridge. The thing I am not sure of is if the pepper will come true. If the parent plant was a hybrid it won't. Anothert thing is I know germination of tomato seeds is very low unless they are fermented first. (Basically a controlled rotting of the tomato)You might want to google the peppers to see if they do better if their seeds have been fermented.

Dry the seeds out first and then plant them like any other seed (1/4" ish deep) Mist the soil and cover loosely with a sandwich baggie (so air can get in) Set in a partially sunny window and wait.

Probably not a problem with a ghost pepper but some fruits/veggies are treated/modified to be sterile to prevent people doing what you propose.

I 'recycle' a lot of my produce this way FYI. It's rewarding.

~Kelli

Trickerie said:

Hey All,

I procured a "ghost pepper" today, and want to try and propagate a plant from it. Its a fresh, red, ready to eat pepper, and am not sure how to go about germinating the seeds (if thats even how you do it?). Any advice?

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Air dry the pepper, cut it open & remove the seeds. Store in a paper envelope in a dry place. I'd tell you wait until next spring to germinate unless you have a serious indoor plant growing system.

The Bhut Jolokia can take up to 35 days just to germinate. They also have a very long growing period, up to 160 days before harvest. My plant is just now starting to flower this year.

I would advise to wait until Jan. of 2013 to germinate, them raise the seedling indoors in a clay pot until April. Taking it outdoors on nice days, inside over night until there last frost.

There's plenty of online info for ghost Peppers.

Please respect this Pepper it's dangerously hot.

Watch This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tRq8ExAHzk

This is what I do:

http://plantedspace.com/howto/grow/item/10-germinating-seeds-with-paper-towels-ziploc-bags

Ziploc bag & paper towel, works like a charm, I get larger % of germinations this way, or so I think.

Thanks guys :] I plan on growing this indoors, not too sure how well it will do, but I hope it will sprout for me!

DogFish said:

Air dry the pepper, cut it open & remove the seeds. Store in a paper envelope in a dry place. I'd tell you wait until next spring to germinate unless you have a serious indoor plant growing system.

The Bhut Jolokia can take up to 35 days just to germinate. They also have a very long growing period, up to 160 days before harvest. My plant is just now starting to flower this year.

I would advise to wait until Jan. of 2013 to germinate, them raise the seedling indoors in a clay pot until April. Taking it outdoors on nee days inside over night until there last frost.

There's plenty of online info for ghost Peppers.

Please respect this Pepper it's dangerously hot.

Watch This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tRq8ExAHzk

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He's in West Palm, FL. This is our time to start planting peppers, maters, eggplant, etc. End of October we start our winter crops. Feb starts warm season veggies and the las planting of cool season crops, ie: lettuce, spinach etc.

I've got a couple peppers that need that same respect. OMG never had anything so hot. And I have had hot.

Lol @ that video! Now I want some...

I've never had a problem growing them indoors with a daylight CFL. The most important thing I've found with the Bhuts is root temperature. Gotta keep them warm in order for the plants to thrive and for the seeds to germinate.

Remember that the plants easily grow to four feet tall even in a small pot.

They love humidity, so misting them is a plus even in already humid Florida.

somewhatshocked said:

I've never had a problem growing them indoors with a daylight CFL. The most important thing I've found with the Bhuts is root temperature. Gotta keep them warm in order for the plants to thrive and for the seeds to germinate.

Remember that the plants easily grow to four feet tall even in a small pot.

They love humidity, so misting them is a plus even in already humid Florida.

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By regulating the humidity you can, to an extent, control the heat of the pepper. It is one of the hottest peppers around. Use to be the hottest but has been overtaken.

More humidity = spicier?

xenxes said:

More humidity = spicier?

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Roger that.

The plants themselves end up being more attractive when kept humid, as well.

Really is an attractive pepper plant, devil fruits aside.

This question may hijack the thread a bit, but do you make homemade hotsauce with the peppers you grow?

If you remove the seeds and the membrane from inside the pepper it will be a "little" less tangy. Holds true for all hot peppers.

Good pepper site: http://www.pepperjoe.com/

Ghost peppers are really sensitive plants, this is my second season growing them and mine is just now getting a small pepper on it. They will drop flowers and buds with the slightest distress, so be gentle. I have been watering mine with water from my outdoor guppy tank, it loves it. I had more peppers last year by this time but this summer has been HORRIBLY dry and hot in Missouri, I hope these guys are still nice and hot.

My peppers last year were.... dangerous. To say the least.

Also, be sure you cut your pepper in half before trying to dry it, or at least have it exposed to some good sunlight. I strung up a good dozen last year thinking they would dry easily and about half of them got internal mold and made the seeds useless.