You can probably take one of your dried peppers, crumble it up, and plant the crumbly bits. Some water and some sun should get you peppers worth eating in a few weeks. They'd be fresh, so you wouldn't have to go through the re-hydration process.
I rather dramatically lack a green thumb, much as the notion of fresh chilis appeals.
Wait, you said "a few weeks"? Peppers are that quick? (How long if I want 'em red?) A small enough plant to keep indoors? (These are pretty big fruit.) I am sorely tempted!
No, no, that way lies heartache and shrivelled brown things that point their dead stems at me accusingly ...
I got my first batch of 'ornamental' peppers from my uncle. Those tiny little ones that come in lots of colors on one bush around Christmas time. He discoved that they are really, really hot so he saved some to grow the next year. Which he did. And then he had too many peppers. So he gave little plants to everyone he knew. And still he had too many pappers. So he 'threw out' the leftovers in the little area by his mailbox. Now every year he gets tons and tons of little peppers in the mailbox area. He can't get them to go away.
When I grew them indoors, they were pretty quick but I was growing little ones (like, fingernail sized). I just took the dried peppers, put them in a pot I thought would be big enough (I think it was a 6in), set it in the sun, and watered it whenever it looked dry. A friend actually crumbled her peppers up, so she got more plants than I did. They seem to be pretty hard to kill, so long as you keep them watered. Oh yeah, and since I grew them indoors I had to hand-fertilize with a paintbrush, but leaving them outdoors during warm weather would solve that problem. I don't see why the process wouldn't work for larger peppers.
And peppers are red, so you don't need a green thumb. :>
Hot Peppers
Re: Hot Peppers
Wait, you said "a few weeks"? Peppers are that quick? (How long if I want 'em red?) A small enough plant to keep indoors? (These are pretty big fruit.) I am sorely tempted!
No, no, that way lies heartache and shrivelled brown things that point their dead stems at me accusingly ...
Re: Hot Peppers
When I grew them indoors, they were pretty quick but I was growing little ones (like, fingernail sized). I just took the dried peppers, put them in a pot I thought would be big enough (I think it was a 6in), set it in the sun, and watered it whenever it looked dry. A friend actually crumbled her peppers up, so she got more plants than I did. They seem to be pretty hard to kill, so long as you keep them watered. Oh yeah, and since I grew them indoors I had to hand-fertilize with a paintbrush, but leaving them outdoors during warm weather would solve that problem. I don't see why the process wouldn't work for larger peppers.
And peppers are red, so you don't need a green thumb. :>