Mega hot chillies - who's growing what?

[Philthy]

I'm attempting to grow current record holder, Carolina Reaper. (No sign of germination yet).
Last year I grew Moruga Scorpian, the previous record holder. I got a pretty decent crop off of the one plant; at least ten full sized peppers, and a few smaller ones. They were pretty pungent!! But used sparingly they made excellent meat balls, and chicken wings, among other things

I don't have a preference for super hots. The flavours of the pepper are important too, and of course it is very easy to over spice a dish and mask all other ingredients with an overwhelming chilli burn, so I cook with them only now and again.
But I like the challenge of growing them, and always aim to do at least one plant per season. Plus its always entertaining giving the chillies away, and then hearing the stories later of how "they were a lot hotter than I expected!"

[batman]

I've decided against crazy hot chilis - we don't eat food that spicy, so we're going for variety and flavour rather than burning heat.

However, our hottest contender this year (Orange Habanero from Sea Spring Seeds) still has about
249 000 SHU - plenty spicy for us!

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

I don't think we have anything right at the tip of the top of the scale of hot this year, though, last year we were a little taken aback by the heat of our Firecrackers.

This year we are growing:

Prairie Fire (from saved seed) These are small but 2 give enough heat in a chilli or curry)
Numex Twilight
Purple Tiger (never grown before)
Lemon Drop
Firecracker
Thai Birdseye
Madusa
Choc Hab
Cherry Small (never grown before)
Scotch Bonnet
Dorset Naga

Probably a few others. I know the Bonnet and Naga used to be right up there - but I guess there are more evil varieties at the fore now!

[RaptorUK]

I've grown Dorset Naga in the past and was quite disappointed with them, I planted them in the ground in the greenhouse and they seemed to grow very slowly. I didn't grow any Chillies last year so this year I'm trying some Bhut Jolokia Chocolate.

I planted all 10 seeds and started them off in an electric propagator, the first appeared in about 2 weeks then nothing . . . then about a week later I got a couple more then a few more, I now have 6. 60% isn't too bad and 6 plants will be enough.

[The Cobra]

The hottest I'm growing right now must be the Naga Jolokia. They are shooting up as well, looking really vibrant green, healthy plants. Can't wait til they fruit! Also got Scotch Bonnet, Habanero, Cayenne, Tobasco and a small chilli that I've forgot the name of growing

[chilli_grower]

My hottest this year is Carribean red hot at around 500,000 shu I think....

And my mildest are Aji rainforest and Apricot habanero

[Buleste]

I tried some Carolina Reaper but they failed so hottest this year are various varieties of Naga and Bhut Jolokia although there's still time to get something hotter on the go I suppose.

[jacob]

My Bhuts didn't germinate. I do like my habs though.

I find that home grown chillies have a bit of pot luck about them. Wildly different heat even off the same plant.

[maytreefrannie]

I set seeds of 3 types of chilli, but I don't know what's what as they were all seeds I'd saved and didn't keep notes on them. Last year, from saved seeds we got quite a good return.

Reading this has made me feel like going out and buying a few packets of chilli seeds so that I might have some idea of what I'm growing.

[The Goatreich]

I have Bhut Jolokia, Trinidad Scorpion, Naga Morich and Dorset Naga which all sprang up in the heated prop last week. Not sure where I'm going to put them all if they get big enough to come out of the prop.

What sort of stage should I be removing them from the heat source and putting them in their own pots indoors?

[binley100]

Well most of mine are out of the prop..Well moved to the conservatory from the hot room. Pricked out into their own pots (when true leaves developed) . I do cover them at night but leave an air flow. If you leave them in the prop you could run the risk of them either getting leggy or damping off..

[darcyvuqua]

I only go as hot as I can handle so the hottest I have are only mid table

[Philthy]

Don't sweat it Darcy

[darcyvuqua]

Don't sweat it Darcy

I am growing Habs, scotch bonnet, bishops hat and a bhut J so on the hotter side of mid table

Also have

Cayenne, purple-red-joe long

Jalapeño

Aniheim

Serrano

And just sown

Fatalii and lemon drop

[Philthy]

Good selection

I've got Fatalii saved from last year; it didn't amount to much then (my smallest plant overall), and it didn't manage to fruit. But it's bristling with new shoots and raring to go, should be good