The five most popular species of hot peppers—Capsicum annuum, Capsicum chinense, Capsicum baccatum, Capsicum frutescens, and Capsicum pubescens, each offer unique flavours and heat levels.
From the mild bell pepper to the intense heat of the Carolina Reaper, this article covers their key characteristics, culinary uses, and growing conditions. Whether you’re a gardener or a hot sauce enthusiast, this guide provides the essentials.
Peppers are one of the most diverse and rewarding crops you can grow in your garden. From the sweet crunch of a fresh bell pepper to the fiery kick of a ghost pepper, the world of Capsicum offers an incredible range of flavors, shapes, colors, and heat levels. But with hundreds of varieties to choose …
Hot peppers are a favorite among home gardeners due to their spicy taste and diverse culinary uses. However, growing these spicy plants can be challenging, especially when it comes to pollination.
Unlike many other plants, hot pepper plants often require additional assistance to ensure successful pollination and fruit production.
This is where hand pollination comes in handy, providing a simple and effective method for improving the yield and quality of hot pepper plants.
In this blog post, we’ll discuss why hand pollination is important for hot pepper plants, when and how to hand pollinate, and some helpful tips for maximizing your pepper harvest.
Learning how to grow peppers indoors can be quite challenging, especially when growing super-hots. Hot pepper plants need lots of sunlight and warm temperatures. If you want to grow pepper plants indoors, you’ll need to recreate this environment so the plant will flourish.
Thankfully, there are 5 main points you need to keep in mind when growing hot peppers indoors.
– Container Size and Soil
– Lighting
– Watering
– Temperature and Humidity
– Nutrients
In this article, we’ll also talk about the tools and items you should have as well as some tips on dealing with pests and disease.
Saving pepper seeds from your hot pepper pods is a great way to ensure you always have pepper plants growing. Every year when your plants produce peppers, they also produce a ton of seeds that can be used to grow next year’s plants.
Let’s say you have a Habanero plant you want to grow again. Saving some seeds from this year’s crop is a good way to get a head start and reduce costs next year.
You can harvest these seeds and give them to friends, sell them, or keep them in storage for future use. Harvesting seeds from pepper pods is easy, but there are a few important things to know before saving your hot pepper seeds.
Growing your own is a great way to explore the many varieties of hot peppers that exist. Step one of exploring different hot pepper types is to order some seeds. In this article, we are going to look at the best place to buy hot pepper seeds online in Canada.
In total, we found about 34 online retailers of hot pepper seeds located within Canada. I’m sure there are plenty more so if you are one or know of one, shoot me an email and I’ll have them added – thehotsauceguyca@gmail.com.
My criteria for choosing these websites included the following:
Ability to order online with shipping (ecommerce)
A good variety of hot pepper types
Ships from Canada\
Pretty simple criteria which is why we found so many.
Anyways, let’s continue with the list. Below you will find a review of our top 10 picks which is followed by a list of all 34 retailers. You’ll find links as well as average prices and their location within Canada.
Let’s take a look at the best place to buy hot pepper seeds online in Canada.
Germination is the process by which a seed sprouts and breaks the surface of soil or compost in preparation for rooting. Successful germination of your seeds will lead to a strong healthy pepper plant if well taken care of.
Different seeds take different amounts of time to germinate. Some seeds need to be kept dry and cool. Others need warm soil, a greenhouse, or even a hot compost pile.
Here is how you germinate your hot pepper seeds.