Search the forums. There's quite a few places to buy seeds online. You probably want to avoid places like ebay and craig's list except as a last resort.

You can also buy seedlings of many common pepper varieties at your typical big box home center (Home Depot, Lowes). In a pinch, you can use the seeds from fresh or dried peppers from the supermarket or a restaurant that serves you a pepper dish that you like.

Peppers like full sun. They'll grow in partial sun but they won't be as productive. Choose a spot that gets AT LEAST 6 hours of direct sunlight per day but 8 or more is better.

If you need to figure out which area has better sun, you can use something like the suncalc (see link) to figure out which area has more sun.

Here is a link that might be useful: Suncalc Sunlight calculator

hi nbp4drmf

One thing you'll need to do is decide how hot is "HOT" to you. You also need to think about how you're going to use these peppers (eating fresh, cooking, canning, drying, grinding, etc). Then, you can start looking at different varieties that fit your bill.

Here's a list of links to various seed providers. You can poke around on some of their websites and do a little researching as well.

Here is a link that might be useful: Seed providers

thanks for the extensive list. i placed and order with pepper joes. i am a big fan of extremely hot. i plan on using them for cooking, eating, saucing, drying, and grinding. possibly some pepper jelly.

Many people grow their chili peppers in containers. Most peppers love sun and warmth. Would pot planting give you a growing spot with more sun? If you can give them more sun, do it. And you can drag pots inside in the fall if the peppers haven't ripened. Some posters here have regular pepper jungles inside come fall.

how many pepper plants could i get per pot. how big of a pot?

I grow one per 12 inch pot

john

WHAT SHOULD I DO FOR A SOIL MIXTURE?

Check the soil built up under your capslock.

hehe...

Almost any soil that's NOT full of peat moss or any other water-holding medium as a major component will do. They don't need much fertilizer and they hate long exposure to wet roots (so don't keep the media waterlogged and let the soil dry out a bit before watering).

I buy most of my seeds from Peppermania.com. She has a good selection of seeds at reasonable price. Highly recommend this website.

Hi. Well a lot of people on here helped THIS 'newbie' for the past few weeks, to find the Bhut Jolokia pepper seeds,and its relatives, the SUPER hot peppers. IF you want those..go to ushotstuff.com for those seeds. "Uncle Steve' there, has sent me my seeds in less than 6 days total! I just got them in the mail. He has many different HOT HOT pepper seeds for sale. I am told by others that he sends out VERY good quality seeds. So,I bought 25 Naga Jolokia pepper seeds from him for $12,and $3 shipping.

Others on here will trade you for seeds of your own if you have any,or other plants or seeds, if you have a trade list.
I am waiting for several trades to come in the mail right now.
I am finally going to grow HOT peppers. I thought I was growing hot peppers....but NOW i will have HOT peppers!!! so ask people here and go to USHOTSTUF.COM good places to start.

Thanks a lot for all your help. i should be recieving seeds soon. i have planned three areas in my yard to try these peppers out. see which ones do the best. some in the ground, some in pots. i am very excited and hope this all goes well. again, thanks for all the good information all over this forum.