Check out this new pepper plant i found at Lowes today while shopping for new Channel Locks

[Remodeling Maidiac]

The tag says they are decorative only but online says they are edible with varying degrees of heat.

 

[toobfreak]

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The tag says they are decorative only but online says they are edible with varying degrees of heat.

Those are nothing new. Decorative means too hot for the average person by department store standards. They are just a larger variety of one of my favorite peppers, the Pequin pepper, which is a very tiny pepper usually only about 1/2 to 3/4 inch long, often smaller!

 

[The Irish Ram]

Be careful. There must be some reason they are labeled decorative only. There may be something in the soil they were grown in that makes them inedible, or a spray they used on the plants...

 

[Turtlesoup]

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The tag says they are decorative only but online says they are edible with varying degrees of heat.

It's a gorgeous plant.

 

[surada]

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The tag says they are decorative only but online says they are edible with varying degrees of heat.

Put them in jar or bottle with white wine vinegar in the fridge. You'll have pepper sauce to sprinkle on any kind of greens like Spinach, turnip greens, kale, collards. Delish.

 

[toobfreak]

Be careful. There must be some reason they are labeled decorative only. There may be something in the soil they were grown in that makes them inedible, or a spray they used on the plants...

Very unlikely. Decorative means "unfit for human consumption" meaning that they are so much hotter than the banana and jalapeno peppers in the supermarket that they don't want anyone taking the plant home and eating a pepper then coming back to sue them.

For a truly really hot pepper, go try a ghost pepper.

 

[BULLDOG]

Come on ice cream.

 

[The Irish Ram]

Very unlikely. Decorative means "unfit for human consumption" meaning that they are so much hotter than the banana and jalapeno peppers in the supermarket that they don't want anyone taking the plant home and eating a pepper then coming back to sue them.

For a truly really hot pepper, go try a ghost pepper.

Good to know, but wasted on me. I hate peppers. In a little town out west is a joint called Zeke's. It is famous for his chili. It looks like just mashed up green chilies. To eat it everyone puts tons of crackers in it, and wash every bite down with beer. I have watched sweat drip off of my husband's forehead while he gulped it down. Why eat something that painful??????

 

[DrLove]

The tag says they are decorative only but online says they are edible with varying degrees of heat.

That's cool dude, but when they say "decorative only" - Mebbe there's a reason for that?

 

[Concerned American]

Those are nothing new. Decorative means too hot for the average person by department store standards. They are just a larger variety of one of my favorite peppers, the Pequin pepper, which is a very tiny pepper usually only about 1/2 to 3/4 inch long, often smaller!


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I raised a bumper crop of jalapenos this year and we had enough heat that the soil remained warm so I actually ended up with peppers and not duds.

 

[Concerned American]

Very unlikely. Decorative means "unfit for human consumption" meaning that they are so much hotter than the banana and jalapeno peppers in the supermarket that they don't want anyone taking the plant home and eating a pepper then coming back to sue them.

For a truly really hot pepper, go try a ghost pepper.

or a habanero. Thai peppers are pretty warm too.

 

[toobfreak]

Why eat something that painful??????

Because it is that delicious, and the pain isn't real, it is just the body being fooled that something is hot when it really isn't.

 

[whitehall]

Life in a litigation society. Don't put the plastic bags over your head and don't eat the peppers.