Best Pepper Varieties We Grew in 2021 - Pepper Geek 

Being new to growing peppers, I am astonished at the varieties/species of peppers… On this channel I’ve seen so many different colors, color patterns, sizes, shapes and hotness… as Krystal tosses a little hot one down the hatch… “ Fire”… Thanks Pepper Geek… My peppers are winterized and pest-less 🤞 in the garage window. 🐸

My new-for-2021 favorites: Hinkelhatz (tangy, hotter than a Cayenne, very prolific); Ho Chi Minh (bright yellow cayenne-shaped but fruitier); Kalugeritsa (N. Macedonia seasoning pepper); Pippin's Golden Honey (a jalapeno-sized sweet pepper that turns bright purple and then orange); and finally Sugar Rush Peach (which I especially like to slice onto a salad).

I discovered how much I enjoy gardening, when the pandemic started. this year I grew hot peppers, and it is all I want to do. I had great success, and I have you guys to thank for it. Cheers!

I bought a 1/2 pound of starfish peppers from a farmer around me. Used them for hot sauces and found they were absolutely incredible in a simple recipe with mangos and garlic.

Can't wait for Sugar Rush Stripey to be more widely available. I grow the peach every year and love them. This year was a bust for anything mature due to me planting late and an early freeze. Poor planning is not a gardeners friend.

I'm a long time pepper grower, and found your channel. You guys make a great team! Content is to the point, and videos nicely done. Keep up the great work!

Would be cool to see a video on your favourite peppers that ripen fastest. I live in Scotland so have a short growing season to say the least! I'm sure plenty of your viewers are fighting the same battle. Thanks and keep them coming!

thanks guys ive really enjoyed your vids this year. been my first proper growing season for hot peppers.

Always love catching up with your videos, you guys really know your stuff. Peppers are beautiful things and so much fun to grow, and this channel is a great resource. Kudos to you!

Love this channel love you guys keep up the good work.

Awesome guys! Growing hot peppers is super rewarding- no grocery store can match that flavor’s 🎉

Great review guys! Very informative!

I'd have fallen off my chair had he said "but not as hot as these,these are hot" and chomped down on one !! 😈😅

This year I grew the Armageddon and the Habanero Helios, they have amazing flavor and I definitely recommend them for you to grow next season!

Can’t get enough of your videos need more😂 watching over and over again I really need to get me some pepper geek merch 🤓

I absolutely cannot wait to see what your guys will be growing this next year.

My favorites this year: The Habanero varieties „Habanada“ and „Gelbe Zwerge“. Both are incredibly tasty and combined, they blend well into a powder since one is pretty hot and the other one has no heat.

First year with the Aji Rico hot pepper. The pepper has a citrusy, sweet hot bite when then turn red. Extremely prolific producers and I also followed your hot sauce recipe with these and they made an incredibe, addicting hot sauce. Definite keeper for next year.

Love this channel

Very nice. Charapita are some of my all time favorite too.

I love growing chilli pepper 🌶 plants! Love your channel! I get lots of informations on how to grow chillis! 👍🏻 This year i have grown 18 different varieties of chilli plants! Our weather in uk is a big let down this year! 🌧 I would love yo grow the stripy sugar rush chilli but unfortunately couldn’t get to buy seeds from anywhere at all! 😔 Keep it up 👍🏻❤️❤️❤️

Thanks for sharing…you are providing great ideas for next spring!

Thx so much for sharing your gardening expertise!

Great video. Good choices!

You should do a video on different/obscure peppers where the heat ranges from poblano to jalapeno.

I feel bad for laughing at her choking and kept rewinding😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣 lol her reaction was funny. Hope it didn't take long for you to be okay😅

With Aji Amarillo are made some of the best dishes in Peru.

love this channel thanks for the videos

Very nice video good job guys

Great job guys

I loved growing razzamatazz (mr fothergills) and they remind me of that white thai (colorwise) that have a rainbow assortment on the plant

Filius Blue Peppers for the color.

It is honestly amazing how tall my regular reaper is. I have everything in Lowes buckets so that gives them a bit of height already, but the thing is taller than me and I'm 5′9! I'll have to try the purple one next year. Such a pretty plant.

Beautiful Work. Wow you 2 have a great channel here. Thank You.

Looks great guys

Excellent video, greetings from Peru!

I am in central Texas, and my poblanos are still producing peppers. Everything else has been winterized as they were no longer producing. It is crazy to see peppers still growing and it is almost November.

Love the video as always guys. I’m getting a few different verigated verities next year, some besides the fish, and I found a few mutant types I ordered I’m really pumped for. The ones with really small odd looking leaves…and about 5 types of bubblegum because I love the colors .. keep it safe … much love from kc.

I’m so excited you grew Peruvian varieties. You can do a lot with ají amarillo. It is usually used in cooking, and to make creams. I also had aji charapita this year, but my peppers started producing or ripening too late in the season. I am trying overwintering them and hope for better yield next year.

Great looking peppers!

Trinidad seasoning pepper (aka pimento). Smells hot but almost no heat , small size but adds great taste when used in stews or sauces.

You guys are great. I have a cute little ornamental that I overwinter indoors (in Chicago)because it flowers and creates fruit almost 12 months of the year. But this year I got into the heat. Grew Ghost, Trinidad Scorpions, and Reaper. It was very hot and sunny all summer and the yield was crazy high. I've shared them with daring souls, made some great sauce, pickled some, and still have lots in the freezer. The Reaper production was insane. Btw, one day I went outside and saw a Reaper pod with tooth marks on it. Some squirrel must have gotten a real surprise from biting into that thing! Keep up the good work.

Nice peppers!!

My favorite is the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion! Yummm

Growing peppers is all good!! I'm going start a deck garden in the spring! I will, definitely, be planting peppers! If anyone is looking for another great channel, check out The Veggie Boys! They are so entertaining and the family is amazing!

Hi I am new to growing peppers and I just started this year I was wondering which varieties of chilli pepper are great to grow for different types of climates like example I live in tropical climate where is always summer and very hot and the temperatures can get hot randomly and is not very consistent or maybe a country that doesn’t get that much sunlight and what pepper plants is suitable to be grown in a cold , hot , or one that doesn’t get much sunlight btw I love watching ur videos they are helpful and helped me a lot thank you for the amazing videos

My favorite I grew this year was a cayenne called Arapaho. Flavor starts off like a sweet pepper and finishes with a warm heat. I smoked most of them with hickory and ground to powder after dehydration.

The purple reaper got my full attention. The color of the pods and plants would make any garden pop. Is this a variety that a beginner could acquire? Just subscribed, going to view more videos to get answers I should have asked in February. Thanks!

Naga Morich are really a cool plant too tho, and it's REALLY hot. Grows very tall and wide, and gives you lots of fruits. I have one in my garden and I love it.

Favorite peppers I grew this year was marconi peppers for eating, chocolate bhutlahs made the best hot sauce and funnest to grow was the yellow T-rex. Peace!

just love your videos! always learn something new so thanks, i'm new in growing hot peppers and have jalapeno and moruga scorpion for now, and i like some of peppers that you grove more than others and vould love to grow them so can you piont me for some seeds suply

My favorite from this year that I'll probably repeat next season was Yellow Nagabrains - great heat, awesome flavor, cool looking pods, and extremely prolific. I got about 250 pods from one plant.

My problem isn't finding new varieties to grow, it's trying to narrow them down so I'm not growing a hundred varieties :) Serranos will always have a place in my garden. I finally grew some NuMex Big Jim peppers this year and I think they will be a standard for me too. Very easy to grow, vigorous plants, no troubles with disease or pests, and the fruit has a lovely sweet flavor with just a nice warm heat. And the yield per plant is really remarkable.

Grew Aji myself this year. Yea

Did you prefer the flavor of the red or yellow starfish? I've only tried the red one. I want to grow a 7 pot next year and having a hard time deciding which of my many varieties to grow. I have the 7 pot primo yellow so maybe I'll grow that one.

Calvin that shirt rules! 😂

The purple reaper looks really cool!

Finally got my Aji Charapita to germinate. Slow starter. Looking forward to eating.

Ive spent some time digging for what peppers i will grow next year and i found some that you might like. 1. Apple crisp, very crunchy and sweet no heat, baccatum, very unruly so itt will require support as it grows. 2. Tinkerbell/bishops crown, Looks like a bell or a crown, 13,000 shu, grows arounnd 6ft tall looks like a tree, might require support, baccatum 3. This is one you can do using your cgn 21500 x kslsb cross. Use the plant from that and then polinate it with a chocolate habanero and I think it will look really cool. 4. All hallows eve pepper, Purple plant with purple peppers that ripen to orange looks alot like a black panther pepper except it is very short. 5. My faviorite pepper yet... Primotalii.

Yay! You guys always put together a really succinct, but informative style of video. Thank you so much! I just picked up some Aji Amarillo seeds to try next year. Those are much more my speed than the super hots. Also found some sugar rush stripy and one called Yucatán white habanero. I’m also excited to try a couple of peppers that an Etsy seller developed called “sugar drop orange,” and “ghost of cayenne.” Pretty sure the ghost of cayenne will be too hot for me though LOL

Another great video guys, I'm still still waiting for my purple Reapers to germinate. I've read they're hard to grow here in Melbourne.😟 I hope you keep us entertained over your Winter months with recipes and planning for 2022.

Scotch bonnets! Would love to see you guys grow that!!

I have death spirals in my grow tent right now. Really cool peppers.

Great review. The sugar rush stripey and ají chaparrita sound interesting for me to try next spring. My recommendation for you is the *Antep Aci Dolma* . It's a lovely Turkish bell pepper that is very sweet and has the heat of a jalapeño. It's currently my favorite pepper to grow.

In this year i've had a few sweet peppers,and i did grow this year some hot and super hot peppers as well. For example; habaneros,carolina reaper and the yellow and red scorpion chilli. And i also made a few bottles of hot sauce with those :D Maybe can you give me an idea,what should i try next year?(I live in Hungary)

Have you ever grown tabasco peppers? They're my favorite and this year was a great year for them here in southeast Virginia. I canned a bunch of them and also made tobasco sauce.

Great video. Death spiral is clocking in at 1.3m btw!

I like that sugar rush! I need to try that.

My top five this year were Beaver Dam, Serrano, Sport peppers, Shishito, and Kung Pao. It was pleasantly surprised with the amount of kun pao peppers I got and the length of them. Some were almost a foot long!

I recomend growing cheiro roxa peppers next year :D they are super delicious.

I stopped growing jalepenos and replaced them w/ Amarillo. Better flavor, better production, and overall more satisfying to grow.

Sweeeeeeet ✊🏾 😎

Question? I've in ground beds of very good claybase and mulch soil and a 4 X6 ft raised bed of compose and half the soil much as most of the same as my in ground beds, About 10 inches deep, which should I put my peppers into?

Nice looking peppers guys! Great video! Thx for sharing! So do you want to trade KSWT? Lol 😂

Nice

I’m planting the Scotch Brains from WHP. I’ll let you know how they turn out.

Where did you get the purple reaper seeds from?

If you like Reapers then the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion pepper should be on your list to try.

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 🌱 Introduction to Pepper Geek's favorite pepper varieties grown in 2021, with a total of around 45 different pepper varieties. 00:28 🌟 Highlight of the Brazilian Starfish pepper for its ornamental properties and high yield (50 peppers from a single plant). 01:11 ⭐ Discussion about the King Star White Tie, a unique pepper with a flavorful profile that starts white and matures to orange-red. 02:07 🍬 Introduction of the Sugar Rush Stripy pepper, noted for its aesthetic appeal, taste, and cayenne-level heat. 02:48 🍊 Mention of the Seven Pot Primo Orange for its early ripening and exceptional citrusy flavor. 03:43 🍓 Highlight of the Aji Charapita, a berry-sized pepper from Peru, known for its delicious taste and high yield. 04:53 🔥 Presentation of the Purple Reaper as the hottest pepper grown by Pepper Geek in 2021, notable for its transition from black-purple to deep red. 05:36 👏 Honorable mentions include Aji Amarillo (a large-sized pepper) and the Death Spiral pepper (a super-hot variety). 06:59 🌶️ Recap of all favorite pepper varieties of 2021, with anticipation for the next growing season.

This is my first year trying to overwinter peppers I have them all trimmed down and in a grow tent I picked up but my only space is inside I dont have a cold room will they stay dormant in @22C

Charapita takes forever to make but goes big when it does

Did you guys do a hybrid of Aji Charipita with a modern Chinense pepper this year ?

I'd recommend sugar Rush cream. It's a journey to find the perfect ripeness but when that's figured out they are delicious. They look kind of dirty creamy yellow when ripe. The Hippie seed company. Where did you get your purple reaper seeds? I really want to grow that.

I grew Aji Charapita for the first time this year. I ate one, and then gave my wife one without saying anything. “Oh, that’s good!…Oh, that’s hot…Oh…OH NO!…OH!!!” -My Wife

Ordered Hallow's Eve, Iowa Twister, Hellboy & Little B*****d for next year

What’s a good seed company for Bahamian goat peppers

I live in an area with a long growing season but where summer temps rarely rise above 22 or 24. Should I be using low tunnels to boost the temperature and humidity? Vancouver Island here where it's a cooler Mediterranean climate...rainy moderate winters with cool dry summers.

I'm not really fond of peppers (I don't like that typical bitterish flavor or heat at all). It's taken me several seasons to find my keepers: Cubanelle to replace bananas, Big Bertha and my favorite; Chocolate Beauty. The chocolates don't even taste like a pepper; just really sweet with hints of chocolate, cherry and prickly pear. Based on these varieties, do you have any recommendations on a big, sweet pepper?

Are you going to over winter any of these plants?

I have very hot peppers in my greenhouse for the moment

I hybridized a new variety that I know you will love, would you be interested in trying it out and and making a review for them? The seeds you will be given will be F3 its a cayenne /ornamental cross. They aren't for sale yet , and probably only fully releasing them at F6 - F8

@3:48 😂😂

Primotalii golden red Chocolate and ocer40 other varieties i grow 5 diffrent varieties of T-rex and thors hammer peach . Rwanda red Ks Starracha Hornet, ks starrscream JPGS x white bbg And many many more And i have about 1000 diffrent varieties of chili seeds home right now

Hey guys, love your videos! Have you ever grown Primotalii's? This was my first year growing and they produce like crazy! My hottest I've ever tried and grew 6 different super hots this year. Let ne know if you want any seeds and/or powder I'd be happy to send you some

Ever heard of the "labuyo"? It's similar to the bird's eye but native of the Philippines. It's really cute but extremely spicy. 💕

No thanks on chaparita or reaper hot peppers! Jalapenos are my favorites. Would like to try the aji amarillo.

Could you add how many days it takes to ripen each pepper you mentioned. I live in zone 4a and have only 100 to 110 days of growing. Thx

Where to get purple reaper seeds?

My Aji Charapita produced amazingly as well, but I didn't have that purple coloring happen. They went from green to yellow. Any idea why that would be? Seed was originally from bakers creek seed company.

thank you for such great info (and for not promoting tats)