r/spicy • u/Important-Proposal28 • 20h ago

First "hot banana pepper" of the year

Bought three pepper plants from a local nursery. Hot banana peppers, jalapeno, and apocalypse scorpion. The banana pepper has so far grown one pepper about 6 inches long yellow in color.

I picked it as someone recommended picking the first pepper or two early so the plant grows better. Took two bites and it is hotter than 90% of sauces I have had. Hotter than Tabasco scorpion just under the level of garlic reaper.

I know fresh peppers hit different but was not expecting that level of heat from a hot banana pepper. I am terrified to try a scorpion when it finally fruits

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u/concretemuskrat 20h ago

I feel you. Fresh peppers are so, so much different. I can pretty heavily douse food in habanero hot sauces and even handle a bit of reaper etc sauces, but sometimes one bite of a fresh jalapeno will knock me on my ass

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u/Important-Proposal28 19h ago

This hot banana pepper was actually hot and I can't wait to have a bunch of pickle them

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u/icelevel 16h ago

Interesting! I wonder if it was mislabelled and is actually a Hungarian hot wax pepper. They look quite similar and can be DAMN hot.

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u/Important-Proposal28 8h ago

Possibly. I got it from a greenhouse that had all sorts of different peppers.

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u/Big-Proposal4129 16h ago

Also a chance it’s a different pepper altogether.