This Project Has Been a SECRET Until Now!

[@preschoolhomestead]

I would love a video about which peppers are commonly used for dried spices (chili powder, paprika, etc).

[@judycee9263]

I just read an article about this. Paprika is just regular red bell peppers, dried and ground.

[@melissati]

I second this. A break down of dried peppers would be awesome. To add on, I've been looking to grow kashmiri chilis (known for use in Indian food) for a long time yet I can't find the seed available online, only the dried pepper is available but it doesn't tell you exactly what pepper it is

[@emkn1479]

@@judycee9263yes. I’ve also heard that cayenne is good for flakes. And if you let a jalapeño grow to full maturity (red) and then dry and smoke it, it’s a chipotle! Actually just learned that in Mexico the dried version of the fresh pepper sometimes has a different name. So a dried poblano is an ancho.

[@heirloomacres7445]

​@@judycee9263Not really. They have special varieties, sweet or spicy, and they usually have thick walls though not all. Leysa is a good one.

[@LauraWilliams-qn1xe]

Yes!!!

[@nicholasnarcowich9163]

At 63 with a heart condition in a mobile home park, I am always watching for new stuff to plant as well as old favorites. Love your videos, Thank You all...

[@hopelehenbauer3220]

Your videos always cheer me up! Your enthusiasm and love for gardening is so inspiring!❤

[@preschoolhomestead]

I have had the most success with peppers in pots.

[@fizzypop1858]

Can't wait for when these seeds are ready for us to buy! Growing peppers is my FAVORITE thing to grow in my garden. So exciting! Thank you for sharing this video. It's so much fun to see all those varieties.

[@lorib5323]

I live in the Shenandoah mountains in SW Virginia. I direct planted from seed on March 5th this year Anaheim & Cubanelle's that I got from you guys. Chest height and INSANE amounts of chilies. INSANE! My first year of gardening has been amazing.

[@Tokyo_Titus]

My Jamaican Yellow Mushroom pepper plant is 5 feet tall and 4 feet wide, and it's loaded with peppers.

[@nicholaslake5937]

I grow Lesya peppers, from Ukraine as well; they are heart-shaped and turn red when ripe. My wife teases me because every year I'm always looking for different varieties to plant and get bored of the same old peppers, squash, beans, etc, often more interested in growing rare specimens than harvesting and eating. I like videos like this as they go well with scrolling through the seed pages during your annual seed sale and I picked some packets up this year that I'm excited to see in the garden next spring. I've grown several varieties of rare squash, some from your store, and look forward to eating them this winter. The green-striped cushaw is a sight to behold.

[@joemccall8991]

My spouse fell in love with some greens on a trip to Thailand earlier this year. Needless to say, my greenhouse has been packed with them since we returned and they too love the heat and humidity.

[@ryanhessler8966]

We bought Giant Marconi seed from you and had our first harvest a couple weeks ago. We roasted them on the grill and made pork green chili with them and they are awesome!

[@TheWickerShireProject]

Yeah Luke! Secret Projects! Mass of peppers in an unused space done right! This video is perfect for sharing! Well done my good sir! Great info! UP date in Dec will be vital to see how a northerner can grow in this environment!

[@crystal7217]

This was a nice way to see your products and learn about them all.

[@gardeninggal249]

I love my long slim cayenne from migardener! Pioneer women has a wonderful fermented hot sauce recipe that I just love to use these in.

[@tomvanaalst5790]

I really appreciate your sharing this experience. Too few KZbinrs display such integrity. Whats more, you didn't lose your head and panic. It will make a good tale to share over sun downers :) cheers.

[@jamesshirey9493]

I live in northern Ohio, but always have great luck with peppers, in ground and in pots. I have a habanero plant with nearly 40 peppers on it. That's a lot of hot!

[@SamClemens-id3cl]

Peppers are challenging to get good production if you are not in the south. If you can overwinter the pepper...you will get great production the 2nd year. Overwintering isnt so easy. I tried it & only had 2 out of 6 plants survive.

[@tracyriley2397]

Make sure you keep updating on the growth. So fun .

[@kurnen79]

Love you, Luke! I am enjoying your sweet bell peppers! I grew them from seed and got a moderate amount of green peppers. It was too dry. Your fireworks tomatoes were a hit! They are still making tomatoes. I really want to send you pictures! I am excited to see what you'll bring for my spring garden. Now, to get things ready for my garlic plots! Thank you so much!

[@heidiparker4957]

The tiny orange pepper is one of my favorite. It's a superhot called Ahi Charapita. Great dried and put in a grinder

[@lanique57]

I grew these one year and gave the bulk of them to 2 Peruvian coworkers. They use them a lot in their cuisine, so they said. When Luke bit into it I cringed, LOL

[@flipflopgardener6629]

I grew the yellow mushroom pepper I purchased from you guys this year. I love this pepper. It is really productive. I would compare the flavor and heat level to a habanero.

[@brianmoore4299]

I took a 4x8 birdees bed and a green stalk and filled both with nothing but peppers. Sweet and hot. I had the most successful season ever. (Been growing since '79). I had so many that some got hit with sun scald during my hot summer. (Loma Linda CA sunny So Cal).

[@terrivance8750]

Thank you, Luke. 😊

[@alanprice9712]

@growinglongisland, I had the same issue this year with what I believe are pepper maggots. Apparently they become a problem around the beginning of July and stay till about September. I read that an easy way to control them is using plant cover to keep their mature flys off the fruit. The fly will land on the fruit just as it starts to grow and punctures it and deposits an egg inside the fruit leaving a tiny hole that is difficult to see. The larvae then eats the pepper membrane till the fruit rots and falls to the ground where it can burrow into the ground till spring/summer to emerge as an adult fly and start over.

[@midorik759]

Purchased seed for purple bells from your company and got those banana pepper looking peppers just like you showed in the video. Can you tell what kind of pepper plant that is?

[@way2fast503]

I was looking for a comment like this. The same thing happened to me with the MIgardener purple bell peppers I tried growing. They’re the hottest banana peppers I’ve ever grown and they’re definitely not purple! I plan to start multiples from that seed pack next season to see if it was a blend of hot peppers accidentally mixed in with the purple bells. That said, the plants themselves were very healthy.

[@DanielKeller-x5x]

Same here with the same variety all look like short banana peppers, must be an issue with the source of the seed

[@beehouseout5190]

So excited to see your video as soon as it comes out

[@WillieBrownbentKamalaDown]

Me too!! 🙏❤️💪💯🌷

[@jeannamcgregor9967]

This is why I started my peppers indoors in January this year! Peppers are SO slow to grow and develop that for the first time I had mature peppers starting in August rather than in fall. Will do this every year from now on. 💚

[@stevejodifaber5509]

Thank you for all the great informative videos! Very helpful!!

[@margaret2222]

Sorry Luke, but I had to chuckle when you were dying from that hot pepper. I can't do hot peppers at all. They burn me up so it was nice to know I am not alone. Loved the video.

[@D4ni3773]

Thanks for sharing! Great video!

[@amysmith3967]

That's awesome you're growing peppers in your climate right now!! Next grow tomatoes too! ❤️

[@SuttonsDaze]

LOVE THIS!!!!

[@robertmiller8336]

After college, I had the opportunity to work with the flower trial manager at the Pennsylvania home of fordhook lima beans. While we were working with flowers only, the trials contained samples of everything in the catalog, as you said, to check for consistency. There were also new varieties or similar varieties to what we sold to see how them compared. Vegetable trials were a separate part of the trials. Same kinds of things,making sure what we were selling was what it was supposed to be. Also part of the vegetable trials were breeding work being done by the trial manager. she was working with squash of various types. All of the trials were "blind" there was a master list with numbers assigned to the plants, but variety names were only listed in the master list so there was no chance to be biased by a particular breeder or source. some of the other comments suggesting seeing how they dry or other things would keep you busy. Enjoy, it is clear you are fascinated with peppers!

[@JackiesOasis]

These plants look so nice. Can't wait to see how they look fully grown.

[@ProlerSkyphet]

Your seeds have been mostly killer for me! Beating out all the others side by side AND the best prices honestly for the quality

[@brentboudreau4360]

This is a great project idea! I have been looking for the rare and unusual varieties such as Jigsaw, Candy Cane, Fluorescent Purple and other variegated varieties

[@SamClemens-id3cl]

Best peppers...and I'm in a moderate climate is Superchili, an F1 hybrid. I put 3 plants in a 7 gallon container (peppers like crowding & superchikis are compact plants anyway). Literally produces hundreds of small peppers, hottee than jalapenos but not crazy hot IMHO.

[@gregdoh]

So fun to watch, and thinking you can sell seeds from those is awesome

[@vickisavage8929]

If you have a unique pepper plant, you can take cuttings and root them to propagate them.

[@nicholasnarcowich9163]

Most of the peppers are described by color... not many by taste or heat... & THAT is why we grow, for taste & texture, & Flavor. Color only adds to the dish. BTW, your vid on planting material, mulch, plant food was on the mark. I am transitioning to feeding more, watering more too... in a Mobil Home park, not too much space, but I plant... Thank you for your videos :-) I almost forgot... When I was going through my garden with my sister, me, CA her in MI, I found some green beans ready to ear when I was watering, so I did.... when you are looking at things in the garden ready to eat, Why not try them right then & there? I am sure I am not the only one thinking this...

[@debbienielsen368]

You had me at “purple” peppers. Need those for zone 8b that are not hot! I can’t do hot,but love peppers. Thanks for the sneak peek!

[@6topcat]

Gotta get my hands those pumpkin spice jalapenos! Great stuff.

[@helenalderson6608]

I just started getting fruits on my rocoto pepper. Supposedly a perennial pepper, but this is my first season trying it

[@katiem9644]

I was sitting here thinking, what size bags are those? And what soil did he use and what did he fertilize with? Must have read my mind, thanks for the answers!

[@MK-ti2oo]

I have dozens of different peppers that i grew from MIgardener, i found quite a few that did not produce the type of pepper the seed was supposed to be for. I'm pretty meticulous seed starting so i really don't believe i mixed up that many plants, but that might be what Luke experienced with the 'mix up' plants he showed. Regardless, i love their seed and am going to do test plantings of all the ones i have that didn't come out as expected to see if they really are the wrong seed. I'm getting ready to take pictures of all my plants, though, and do reviews on the website for them.

[@Momofcute2]

I had the same exact experience this year. I have some peppers that came up which I didn’t even ordered or have seeds for. I was hoping someone else back me up and it’s not just from my imagination.

[@way2fast503]

The same thing happened to me with the MIgardener purple bell peppers I tried growing. They’re the hottest banana peppers I’ve ever grown and they’re definitely not purple! I plan to start multiples from that seed pack next season to see if it was a blend of hot peppers accidentally mixed in with the purple bells. That said, the plants themselves were very healthy.

[@alanprice9712]

Thanks for the video Luke, which pepper would be best for making paprika?

[@AmbersDaintyBush]

I can’t handle hot, but definitely want to grow those yellow mushroom peppers for a friend!!

[@CainMason-uh1ep]

Zone 7B NJ. Your Jamaican Yellow variety is an absolute beast when it comes to production!! Unfortunately, I'm the only spicy pepper fan in my household, and I planted two plants in my raised bed. 😂 Luckily, my neighbors wife is from Thailand and she adores them -so I gifted them a large amount of my harvest as well as a pruned plant to overwinter for next spring. Sharing the bed with the yellow mushroom peppers were: -Local sourced (grocery store seedlings) cherry bomb peppers that had two good sized yields for stuffing. - MI Gardener California Wonder Bells that tasted amazing and produced pretty decently despite an overcrowded bed (gardener greed). -MI Gardener Purple Jalepeno: Great production but somewhat undersized. -MI Gardener Chocolate Striped Tomato: Still fruiting into the beginning of September. I'll be overwintering: 1 Bell, 2 Cherry bomb, 1 purple jalapeno for next year.

[@glennforister84]

So awesome!!

[@catherines506]

I have had so much reliable success with the Lemon Drop pepper. I'm now in Colorado and despite the move from Michigan, it hasn't slowed down. My plants are absolutely loaded nonstop with them and they're SPICY. Definitely a garden favorite. The banana peppers have done really well, too! This was my first season trying the Biquinho Yellow Piquillo pepper, too. Took quite a while to get going but they are really taking off, now. Small but they pack the perfect little punch when you don't wanna die of heat overload.

[@nigl2807]

Yeah the lemon drop are so vigorous as well - grows up fast (have two myself).

[@jenniferjohnston4300]

I have some pepper plants outside that aren’t happy. They got a nice soaking of Revive Rx sprayed on this morning.

[@sonyahogan5673]

I want your greenhouse!!❤❤

[@AmbersDaintyBush]

Me tooooo, I’d have so much fun all winter

[@IAMGiftbearer]

You are going to have more peppers than you can eat! You know what you should do? Host a pepper tasting event at your facility, interview people about how they taste, and do a video on it! I know I am going to want some of those Ukrainian peppers and also some of the other color changing Bell Pepper varieties! I'm also planning on getting the Giant Marconi and Jimmy Nardello to grow next time, as I love big red sweet peppers for stir fry and fajitas! I grew a few standard red bell pepper plants but wish I had planted as many of those as I did Jalapenos and Fresnos which are the only ones fruiting currently. My foliage for the Lavender, the Diamond, and red Bell peppers is about as tall as yours but they aren't fruiting yet. My weather has been back and forth the past week between the 80s and the 60s and 70s. I am finally getting fruit on my three varieties of cherry tomatoes. Not ripe yet, but they are multiplying and continuing to add new flowers. I'm really exited about the new deep purple variety I bought from Norfolk Healthy Produce company! The tomatoes on those are not ripe yet but loading up and more flowers are blooming on the oldest plant and there are 3 more plants I succession planted still getting taller and beginning to flower. My plan for those is to save as many seeds as I can and then next year try to cross pollinate with a slicer to create some nice meaty dark purple tomatoes.

[@justbychance7012]

That looks like so much fun!!!!

[@dt-paz516]

How do you keep them from Cross pollinating

[@nigl2807]

was wondering that myself. isnt there some sort of informal rule to keep peppers x distance from each other since they cross pollinate so easily?

[@Gkrissy]

I bought the Jamaican mushroom pepper from you in the spring and that’s my only pepper plant I had time to grow this season. It’s in well and the yields are great. I cut some today and it got in my eye so be careful.

[@davidconn3222]

Love growing peppers, good use of the greenhouse.

[@MariaInSoFla]

Looks pretty amazing. I'm pretty new to gardening, but I was taught that you shouldn't put peppers close to each other or they'll cross pollinate. Not true?

[@Brookeloun]

Do the peppers need pollinators? If so, how were you able to get them into the greenhouse?

[@AmbersDaintyBush]

I wonder if they pollinate by hand to prevent cross pollinating?

[@Brookeloun]

@@AmbersDaintyBush good point..

[@123loveyourland]

Loved seeing all of these! I’m about to start my peppers for 2025!! Super excited!!

[@scottmanb2005thegardenpit]

I am looking forward to when you carry some of those Ukranian pepper seeds! Cool looking peppers!

[@preschoolhomestead]

😂 Your reaction to that chili pepper! Oh, no!

[@deecooper1567]

Right ? I’ve heard the smaller the hotter. Brave soul to try 🤯🤪👵🏻👩‍🌾❣️

[@craighalle7892]

The first time I planted Serrano peppers all the seeds sprouted and but they were all destroyed by those tiny fluffy insects. Last year, I planted 12 seeds, and 4 grew. So far, I've harvested about 60 peppers from them. Truly incredible. I also planted some large sweet red bell peppers and and one was attacked by insects, and had been damaged. I used it in a salad, and even not completely red, my salad was very delicious. I hope to harvest many more.

[@aphillips5376]

I grew the diamond, CA yellow, banana, emerald, red & coral this year. All were very prolific except the red bell. Didn't get one.

[@tammynevil2422]

I would love to see a video about overwintering peppers maybe in tunnel?

[@jamesshirey9493]

I also got mixed up pepper seeds this year. Bought jalapenos but got banana peppers. Not mad, just disappointed. At least my wife and kids can eat them.

[@emkn1479]

Same! I really wanted jalapeños 😅

[@mercurybard9794]

Oh, no, you got hit by Pepper Gate

[@anidnmeno]

pepper joed again

[@Northernnine8878]

Awesome!

[@mikeschaoticgardening]

Yay peppers!

[@BecomingaGreenstalker]

I have my peppers in my tiny greenhouse and they love it!

[@guylamullins3602]

I can grow chili peppers really well. Bell peppers not so much. I need a good fence.

[@margaretlebs6346]

I agree with preschool homestead. Please and thank you in advance

[@ourgeorgiasuburbanhomestea6309]

I have a pepper fetish and grow about 60 to 80 varieties each year. Every year I focus on peppers from a certain region. I've done Africa, The Middle East, Caribbean, South America and next year I'll either do Asia or Mexico and Central America ... this year I focused on India. I actually import seed from those areas. This year was a total bust because I had open heart surgery in April, so my garden went unattended. :( ONE thing I noticed, though, is when I had my THOUSANDS of seedlings (started in pro seed trays) the visiting mice would find the Jimmy Nardellos and the Kardoulas and eat them to stubs. Even if they were intermingled with other seedlings, they'd find them and eat them.

[@heirloomacres7445]

Do you have any seeds for urfa or maresh? I'm always looking.

[@ourgeorgiasuburbanhomestea6309]

@@heirloomacres7445 I will!

[@santaanaroadwildman3614]

Wow Luke thats the best & most varieties pepper tour I've seen ina while! I need to order some garlic & Trifecta+ from u! 🌶

[@deltorres2100]

I also have a few SUPER HEALTHY ,with large leaves 🌱🌱🌱

[@Dash22448]

My single Lemon drop Ahi took over my greenhouse its huge and very tasty.

[@catherines506]

Same! I'm semi in love with that pepper, it's just so reliable and tasty

[@WillieBrownbentKamalaDown]

What a great episode 🙏💯👍

[@growinglongisland]

The last few years on my pepper plants all of my pepper plants get this worm/ maggot looking bug that somehow burrows itself into all three fruit. I’ve been picking them when the peppers are still green in hopes I can harvest something. Do you know what they are and how to get rid of them?

[@sharbrown3279]

3 of my migardener bell pepper packs were wrong. They were big red cherry pepper.

[@azcvt1411]

Oh man. I can't wait to get some of those purple bells.

[@catherinesargent7451]

I'm hopping you will do a follow up as the peppers mature. I am very very curoius about the size of the plants and the different stages of the fruit. I have shared this with my son-in-law( is in North Dakota) and brother( is in Tennessee)

[@gsargen1]

Interestingly enough I grew what I thought was purple bell peppers from MIgardener seeds and I got a similar mixup - looks like some kind of hot yellow/orange jalapeno looking pepper instead

[@way2fast503]

The same thing happened to me with the MIgardener purple bell peppers I tried growing. They’re the hottest banana peppers I’ve ever grown and they’re definitely not purple (they’re yellow and then turn red-orange)! I plan to start multiples from that seed pack next season to see if it was a blend of hot peppers accidentally mixed in with the purple bells. That said, the plants themselves were very healthy. Unfortunately, I don’t eat hot peppers.

[@Itsjstme748]

I got peppergated unfortunately. I was supposed to be growing purple bell peppers but I’m growing hot banana peppers instead. Very disappointed we don’t line hot peppers.

[@way2fast503]

The same thing happened to me with the MIgardener purple bell peppers I tried growing. They’re the hottest banana peppers I’ve ever grown and they’re definitely not purple! I plan to start multiples from that seed pack next season to see if it was a blend of hot peppers accidentally mixed in with the purple bells. That said, the plants themselves were very healthy. Unfortunately, I’m not a hot pepper fan either.

[@G.W.H.]

Nice!!!

[@Tolinar]

I am also growing some rare peppers. Mostly my bellpepper plants die, but this year, one survived. Ha!

[@jenniferjohnston4300]

Take my money. I need all the purple things. That is called playing with my food.

[@debbienielsen368]

Me too!

[@AmbersDaintyBush]

💜 I can never resist a purple food 😂

[@mercurybard9794]

I'd love to see a second video in a couple of weeks when more of the plants are putting on ripe fruit. Also, you are a brave, brave man just biting into a pepper like that 😳

[@Earthy-Artist]

When they become available I'm looking forward to eventually growing the tiny orange round pepper which made you say "that's hot" around 30 times🥵! They look like little Christmas lights, and I appreciate a good fruity hot pepper.

[@Tamsins_Potager]

I adore growing chillies ❤🌶🌶🌶

[@tammygriggs9100]

No Garden Salsa Peppers?! We grew them this year, and they produced so many huge peppers this year for us.

[@brucetracey9711]

Do you top your pepper plants or just let them grow wild?

[@FlowerxLady]

I don’t want to seem so uneducated, but how do you get pollinators in there? Do you? Thanks

[@andrewhammill6148]

That yellow little pepper that was supposed to be a purple bell - That's exactly what my purple bell from MI Gardener looked like. Don't get me wrong - I do like the seeds I get from you, but that was one that got screwed up in Peppergate. LOL

[@rachelshowers7209]

You didn't mislabeled the wax pepper. The purple bell pepper seeds got mixed up with hot Hungarian wax pepper seeds. My husband was really sad he didn't get purple bell pepper this season.

[@barbaraelford9285]

Shouldn't you pick some of the peppers that are mature to increase production?

[@deltorres2100]

I’m excited for my BIG JIM PEPPERS..Peppers are my favorite 🌶️ 🫑

[@anidnmeno]

big jims are so good, i grew them last year

[@kimberlyn2448]

Luke makes a pepper video and I am chanting "eat the pepper, eat the pepper, eat the pepper!" 👩‍🌾🔥He ate the pepper!!!! 🎉 How cool would it be if you did a tasting with a few others to describe some of the peppers flavors or level of "meanness" 😂🔥🔥🔥 that would make a great video!

[@SaltareSayRelax]

How do you let pollinators into the greenhouse?

[@SilverSaabArc]

You can’t hide a Charapita from a seasoned Pepper enthusiest Luke! 😝 I grow mostly Aji types, but mostly the Baccatum Aji varieties. For the MI Gsrdener fans not as experienced with peppers, Aji is just a South American word for chilies, most Aji varieties are grown and native to Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, and Guyana. Luke carries Aji Lemon drop, I’d be super excited about other Baccatum varieties from his shop. Some Aji are Chinense like Aji Dulce, Aji Panca, and the deliciously infamous Aji Charapita! ❤❤❤

[@hopemorrison2367]

Luke do you know of the italianelle peppers and where to get the seeds

[@dianebennettlegare1182]

How are they pollinated inside in Nov Dec?

[@cet765]

Wow! So many types! Those peppers had to be super hot to have you have such a reaction! They look so cute but wow what a punch they must have! I don't like spicy hot, so I won't be growing any of those for sure! Thank you for this fun video! I can't wait to hear more about your secret Ukrainian pepper!