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Growing Chili Peppers

It’s that time of year! We hope your chili pepper garden has been planted outside and are taking proper root. Pretty much no matter where you live in the US, you should have already started your chili peppers from seeds unless you’ll be buying seedlings for your garden. We are in the Chicago area (zone 5) and have our chili pepper plants transplanted. We’re growing about a dozen types again this year. Continue reading

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Trinidad Scorpion “Butch T” Officially Hottest Chili Pepper in the World

The Trinidad Scorpion “Butch T” has been recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the hottest chili pepper in the world. Continue reading

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An Interview with Butch Taylor, propagator of the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T, World’s Hottest Chili Pepper

The growers also named the pepper the “Trinidad Scorpion Butch T”, after Butch, much to Butch’s surprise. This chili pepper is the possible cross between a Trinidad Scorpion and as as-yet-named chili pepper that Butch is holding close to his chest in hopes of creating even hotter peppers in the future.

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