Maybe I just don’t eat jalapeno enough? Not sure. I eat habaneros weekly. Sometimes for a couple weeks straight every day. I love habs, they’re my favorite flavor. I make salsa with them very regularly and eat them with my food raw almost every day as well… but these jalapeños REALLY mess me up. They have a completely different burn feel than habs. I also eat scorpion peppers in August and September when the locals sell them. The scorpions have a burn similar to habs but more intense. These jalapeños for some reason are so much worse… I can’t handle them. It’s wild. Anyone else experiencing this? It’s rare that I find a spicy jalapeno, but when I do it’s usually in the summer months and the jalapeno takes my life away. They’re significantly hotter than the hot sauce in the photo.
by udahoboy
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My jalapeños grow in close proximity to my super hots, so I’m sure that’s partially to blame, but they are often brutally hot. The mild ones seem to be in the minority now.
The one next to the cut piece looks like a serrano. the other one looks like a jalapeno.
Did you grow them or buy them? I am a gardener. Jalapenos are so inconsistent. Mild as a bell. Or hot as what you’ve experienced. And everything in between. Off the same plant. It’s like russian roulette. Most likely seed was saved from a plant that got crossed with something hotter. The babies have the appearance of a jalapeno.
In my case, I probably have a serrano-jalapeno cross. The serrano plants are consistent from plant to plant and fruit to fruit with their appearance and their heat. It’s the “jalapenos” that sometimes look like serranos and sometimes have the heat of a serrano.
Jalapeños have such wild variation from plant to plant and even between different peppers on the same plant. I’ve also had some that had a much more painful burn than habaneros. I’ve had lots of them during especially hot summers and after extended drought.
all the jalapeños i grow are very hot. not hotter than my habs but store bought and canned jalapeños are wayyyy milder
Same here! Jalapeños bites on a own kind, hits me harder then Habanero,
mine are so hot this year and deliver the whole meanness! 🙂
Those jalapenos look *super* stressed. I harvested some that had reddened while still on the branch and those were spicy af too.
I am also a regular habanero eater.
I ate a tiny Tobasco pepper. The ones that look like little red Christmas lights. Thought I was going to die. Then I had a jalapeño that nearly put me in the hospital. I grow all my own. They vary so much in heat level.
It’s been so long since I had a jalapeno with any heat. I’m almost jealous.
What kind of jalapeno seeds were these? Mine are pretty mild
They look delicious and I always seem to get a milder variety but the red sevinas I grew this year would like to challenge your hotter than habs challenge 😂
I’m a Annuum heat hater, I dislike the flavor and the burn of Jalapeño, Serrano etc. but damn I love Ghost Peppers nom nom nom 😋
It’s because they have other chemical compounds and other Capsaicinoide/other %
This is the same why many people can’t handle Capsicum Pubescens (Rocoto Manzano) and other people doesn’t even notice any burn, I guess it was called Dihydrocapsaicin and Nordihydrocapsaicin
No joke and i semi agree. I found a red jalapeno along the green ones the other day at Walmart and decided to buy it because technically, it’s ripe and that usually costs more money.
And that thing has been whooping my ass ever since I cut into it and eating it raw with my breakfast sandwich. I would say it’s a least Serrano or Thai chili hot compared to normal green Jalapeños.
I’m curious what do you add to your habanero salsa. I have a huge habanero tree and don’t know what to do with them.
Jalapeños are the most “range” pepper. Some can be nothing and others can be like a habanero. They’re the most inconsistent pepper
I grow jalapeños every year and some years those suckers are HOT. Hotter than anything else I grow that are supposed to be hotter (I don’t grow super hots).
Lucky. Mine were completely insipid and weak this year. One year I grew them as strong as yours but they were tiny.