Forecast calls for a freeze tomorrow night so I pulled some pepper bushes from the garden. I brought them in to the garage so I could sit down and pick and save what I could (can't let anything go to waste). among the jalepenos and chilis were one carib habernero and one tiny little mystery pepper plant with beautiful little ruby peppers about the size of a #2 pencil eraser.
When I bought my started plants this spring from the greenhouse where we do a lot of business, I complained to the owner that our jalepenos were very mild last year. I blamed my soil and the weather but he shook his head, said he didn't know why they would be mild. Then he said wait here and he disappeared to the back and soon reappeared with the little "mystery" pepper plant and gave it to me. "What's this?" He said, "It's hot, and if you figure out what they're good for, let me know."
Well, I'm here to tell you they are HOT. I chewed 2 of them. Hotter than the hubs of hell. Fill-my-mouth-with-jalepeno-and-habernero-and-chase-it-with-sulfuric-acid-hot. Bobbing-for-frenchfries-hot. My fingers still feel like they are burned and my nose is still running today, even though the oral burn was pretty short duration, my mouth was numb for another 30 minutes. I put some in the dehydrator in the garage and after it started to warm I knew I had to move it out to the barn where the vapors will surely kill any living thing. I think I'm going to make some hot sauce but my wife said not in her kitchen. Wish me luck.