Adiktid

hi there i make my own hotsauce and decided to grow my own peppers. I bought Carribean Red habaneros plants and im just wondering what size pots i should use for outdoors? and if anyone has any tips on maximizing yields please share

thanks everyone

Luke Highwalker

pretty good article in last months maximum yield about habanero's... though its an indoor kinda magazine.

the plants seem pretty small, 3 gallon pot should be plenty for adult plants.

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Adiktid

right on thanks luke
your alwasy on the ball when i post a question


if i use promix bx mixed with cow manure worm castings and bone meal you think i will be good to not fertilize for the season?

Pesci

I have not grown any but I am a fan. If you wanna separate the men from the boys, it is in the hot sauce. Vinegar or habanero based?

Habanero for me.

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Sso

i would think the conditions are the same as for mj, read and read about the plant, then be as nice as you can to it

im sure there are some habanero sites. or at least about their requirements.

Chillyhead

It's been about 4 years since I grew any habaneros but from what I remember it was pretty easy and I harvested a ton of peps. Way more than I could use. I used some of them to make an "Inner Beauty" hot sauce clone which is one of my favorites.

I decided to grow some this year (container garden on the patio) and I'm using some 2 1/2 gallon containers with some type of commercial soil I picked up at a local greenhouse. It uses rice husks instead of perlite and it's what they call a soil less organic mixture. My plants seem to love it.

Anyway, good luck with your hot sauce! One of my friend belongs to a local pepper club and she smokes her peppers over some type of hardwood. Mesquite I think. Makes a killer hot pepper powder that I use for my secret ingredient in chili. I'm going to talk to her and give it a try myself this year.

Here's what I have growing : Paprika Supreme, Peruvian Purple, Fooled
You, Cayenne, Chimayo, Manzano, Tequila Sunrise, Habanaro, and Tabasco!

Adiktid

Pesci ... habanero based for me too

i make a killer sauce everyone who tries it swears they will never do it again. One guy that tried it wants me to sign up to some website for hotsauce fanatics and sell it threw him...he seems to think its the hottest anywhere.

next year i will be growing bhut jalokia peppers apparently they hit over 1 000 000 on the scoville scale and are the hottest in the world

so 3 gal pots should be enough for these bad boys?

also a few of my babies have already started to flower how can i revert them back to veg?

and basic 20-20-20 and 15-30-15 fertz ok for these?

ch33ch

i've never seen any habaneros in pots, but i wouldn't mind doing so myself, to grow year-round. I've only seen them in not-awesome dirt. I don't think bugs mess with habaneros.. i could be mistaken, but i have never seen bug damage on that plant. one of my non-habanero pepper plants looks like it got ate up pretty good. probably why this one part of our garden hasn't worked out for us. the pepper plant looks like a stick in the ground.
i should plant some habaneros there, to give the bugs a ring of fire in the arse
but if you're growing habaneros, all you gota do is plant em, water em, wait. they don't need anything special, plus they're small plants. i bet you get some fire ass habaneros if you're planting in pots! at the end of season, you should try grafting one on a stem from your prize plants hey, it's not illegal to have habaneros growing on bud stems!
I would try it myself, but i am a bit lacking in the herbs department. all i have is tobacco, sweet basil and tomaterz. i'ma get some habanero seed from my grampas plants this year tho. they should be at least flowering by now, he planted them a little later than the rest of his garden.

BCGuerillaGrowa

Well, I wouldn't consider myself a Habanero grower but I've grown peppers from cuttings
in pots the last couple years. Ring of Fire cayenne style a couple years ago. I had 4 feet high in a 5 gallon grow bag.

This year I have a small Jalapeno and Habanero plant.

Both were planted at the same time from cuttings. The Jalapenos
fruit is more visible. But there is at least one small Habanero
forming!

Its important to keep peppers very well drained.

Put rocks in the bottom 1/3 of the pot.

I'll keep you posted.

I also have White Habanero seeds but haven't got
to growing them yet unfortunately.

Both are in 2 gallon pot started from cutting
at the same time.

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Jalapeno

veryperson

Just remove the flowers, more will come later. You'd be better with something like 10-20-20. Keep N low for a higher yield, P K are the key to peppers.

I started a few seeds naga morich and they grow fast! i'm almost scared of what will come from this plant.