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. :>
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. :>