Out of all the bullcr*p on this forum, suddenly an honest, unabashedly naive question. Thank you. I think you are where I was a few years ago, where you have a couple nice kinds of peppers, and want to expand your horizons. There are so very many varieties of hot peppers, every person will offer completely different opinions. You probably don't want anything too terribly hotter than what you're currently growing. I can personally swear by "Aji Amarillo" and "Serrano."

There's a whole lot of peppers out there. Can you give us an idea of the heat factor you like? Cayennes are great, Anchos, Bulgarian Carrot, Lemon Drops, Habs, Chocolate habs. I've grown them all. There's more that I could list. Just give us an idea of what your looking for (Size? Color? shape? Heat?).

If you're growing a Jalapeño and a Hot Banana this year.....
I'll recommend an Hungarian Hot Wax (similar to the banana pepper, but hotter in my opinion)
and a Pepperoncini (not hot, but flavorful when pickled or marinated).

If you want to try something small, colorful, and hot...go for one of the hot Thai varieties.
If the pods are too hot fresh, dry them for stir-frying...or for Kung-pao or General's chicken (my favorite).

Josh

I'd say cayenne and/or a thai type would be a good addition. I try to always have a few plants that have easily dryable fruit. Use em like greeman28 mentioned. You can put em through a coffee grinder and have your own crushed red pepper. If you have a surplus of crushed red pepper, grind it a little finer and make a vinegar based hot sauce. Similar to tabasco. Good stuff.

hmm, ya got me thinking of a Jalapeno popper snack with a cayenne sprinkle. I do not have a thai pepper yet to make an assumption.

As mentioned, there are alot of choices out there on peppers. Good luck on your choice of them.

If you like it hot go with some carribean red habs. Maybe some serano for pickling. My wife likes em super hot so all I grow are bhuts,scotch bonnet, red savigna, orange habs,jalapenos and some cayenne.There are so may options you have to cater to your taste buds.

thanks for the suggestions i did a little homework and i think ill try a serrano and some variety of habenero, if you have any other suggestions i would like to hear them.

peppaz, looks like you got some good advice. I've nothing to add.

Just curious though, catwhisperer2009, what "bullcr*p" are you referring to?

for Med. to mild I'd go with New Mex types too.Anahiem , Guajillo , Nu Mex Garnet , Nu Mex Sweet , Jimmy Nordellos etc.
For a liitle hotter aned great lookers too try Golden Cayenne-not as hot as regular Cayenne but a nice one to grow for looks, productivity and taste.

Send me an E Mail.I might be able to help you out with your quest for some different seeds.

Thanks Smoke, I can't offer your library of seeds but if I can fill in some gaps I'd be happy to.

Peppaz, what are you looking for?

I don't necessarily agree with the golden cayenne isn't as hot as regular cayenne (it probably depends on where you get the seed), mine are hotter then my red slim cayennes.

Some peppers you might want to try are Serrano, Fresno, Red Slim Cayenne, golden cayenne, chili de arbol.

As for something hotter, red thais are good, but they seem to have a harsher heat, it is short lived though. For habs I like the Caribbean reds, Chocolate habs, Red habs, and Harolds St barts.

I'm growing a lot of other peppers this year, but since they are "new" I haven't been able to try them yet, so I can't give them the full thumbs up yet, but everyone usually says they have good flavor. Burkina, Yellow scotch bonnet, fatalli (very hot), Rocotto, and goats weed.

Just curious though, catwhisperer2009, what "bullcr*p" are you referring to?

I certainly wasn't aiming the comment at you or any of the people answering this thread. I guess I'm sick of reading, "Is this a bhut?" Is that a "bhut?" Perhaps I'm asking too much. There are definitely many nice people who write on this forum.

Peppaz, the best way to educate yourself about peppers is to make some trades here on GardenWeb. You can't imagine what a wealth of seeds and knowledge you'll get.

I can see to a cerain extent about the gazilion posts sometimes right after each other from people about "is this a Whatever-people too lazy to search past posts or as pointed out in another post about people labeling posts so you can't search them out-help,desperate or whatever etc.
But by posting
"Out of all the bullcr*p on this forum, suddenly an honest, unabashedly naive question. " it seemed like a slap in the face to some of the people here.

I see from your responce you didn't mean it that way but you sure gave Me the impression otherwise at first.

Your comment wouldn't have been taken as it was by me and probably others if it was on the HELP... post or whatever it was where someone pointed out to be post specific so if someone does a search they can find a post they wanted to find info on...

Enough of that-point made.
Peppaz and Ottawapepper send me an E Mail about seeds.
I hate people being Pepper Impared if I can. :)
Warning:
I cut down this year,bigger pots less varieies and strains.
Cut down from 450+ pots to bigger pots-250+. LOL
BUT I might be growing a raised garden to take up the slack elsewhere.

No such thing as too many peppers.

There are many different hot peppers that you can grow -- Serrano pepper, Cayenne pepper, Habanero Chili pepper, etc. It's all up to you which type you like best! Good luck :)