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gramadinah
True Blue Farmgirl
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Diana
Orofino
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USA
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 Posted - Sep 13 2013 : 11:27:47 AM
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My hot peppers are not hot do you have to roast them to get them hot or do I just not have hot peppers.
Diana
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AFinkberry
True Blue Farmgirl
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Ally
Kalama
Washington
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Posted - Sep 13 2013 : 2:12:50 PM
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Do you know what kind of pepper it is? My hubby loves hot peppers and we recently bought Ghost chilies and Maruga peppers....I didn't try them raw so I can't compare, but after we roasted them, they were very hot! The man that grew them said that each pepper has a different rating for spiciness and then there are variations depending on the method in which they are grown.
Ally
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Ninibini
True Blue Farmgirl
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Nini
Pennsylvania
USA
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Posted - Sep 13 2013 : 2:46:08 PM
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Diana, I know that the amount of water the plants receive during fruiting can affect the heat of the pepper... Maybe that's why they're not very hot?
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gramadinah
True Blue Farmgirl
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Diana
Orofino
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Posted - Sep 13 2013 : 3:06:00 PM
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Jalapeno and not at all hot.
Diana
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danyel
True Blue Farmgirl
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Danyel
Robertsdale
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USA
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Posted - Sep 13 2013 : 3:17:34 PM
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I have found that if I planted my hot peppers to close to the green sweet peppers my hot jalapeno peppers were not at all hot. I was told that they cross pollinated, so now I plant them as far away form each other as possible and it worked. (if someone sold me a line I bought it hook line and sinker). If you want it be hot some of my recipes call for leaving the seeds in to generate more heat.
Danyel
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AFinkberry
True Blue Farmgirl
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Ally
Kalama
Washington
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Posted - Sep 13 2013 : 9:20:17 PM
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DH was saying the more the plants are watered, the less spicy they'll be. I've never grown peppers, but I wonder if this is what happened? So if your peppers aren't hot, then maybe too much water? He was saying that capsaicin develops in peppers to survive drought-like conditions, so if the growing conditions are too perfect (e.g. regular watering), then the capsaicin won't have an opportunity to develop.
Ally
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rksmith
True Blue Farmgirl
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Rachel
Clayton
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USA
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Posted - Sep 15 2013 : 6:11:14 PM
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Also if it doesn't get cool enough at night it will lessen the hot in a pepper. They generally need hot days and cooler nights.
Rachel
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gramadinah
True Blue Farmgirl
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Diana
Orofino
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Posted - Sep 15 2013 : 8:31:51 PM
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All the above have made my Hot peppers So Very Mild.
Thanks Gals
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Hot peppers not hot?
