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If it were me I wouldn't spend that kind of money & time to buy seeds, grow, plant, water, fertilize, harvest, dry, grind and store when you can buy quality "smoked" powder for 5 bucks, but that's me!> Chiquilin Smoked Paprika

This might be useful as well: how to make paprika.

My fave for classic sweet paprika is Szegedi 80. A blend of Szegedi 80 and kurtovska kapija is also pretty awesome.

We use a ton of it and growing and grinding your own results in a far superior product than buying something old in a jar or tin.

Yes, nothing magical about "Paprika". It is simply pepper powder or dried and finely ground up peppers. The heat from none, which is what you will typically buy in the spice section at a store, to hot, simply depends on the type of peppers that you use.

I dry and grind up several varieties each fall and use it to season foods throughout the year.

One think I want to mention is that if you do make ground peppers, is that you need to make sure they are completely dried before grinding. Otherwise, they will clump while being stored.

Thanked for all the comments. I'm not sure it's economical, but as mentioned, it sure is rewarding to make your own. Our plants were highly productive last year and we put quite a few in the dehydrator and ground for various powders. I love to season something and know we grew the plant from seed that created that powder!!

Yep, the "hobby" factor. I certainly don't grow my peppers to save money. I have just two reasons for growing peppers. First, it is fun, it is one of my hobbies. Second, I can grow varieties that are not available around here and in most cases, no one around here has ever heard of before.

I like to make salsa in the fall, but it makes little economic sense for me to grow all the ingredients, even though I could. I can buy tomatoes for .50 a pound and I can buy Jalapenos a dozen or more for a dollar. It is hard to grow them for that. I just use my other peppers to adjust the heat factor of each batch. A tablespoon or two of Ghost Pepper Powder puts a nice edge on a 18 quart batch of salsa.

I know what you mean. We grew quite a lot of tomatoes last year but did supplement our produce with onions and garlic from a local farmers market to make salsa and other items. It is a hobby, and a fun one at that.

Hungarian wax peppers make an amazing powder with a relatively modest heat level, and Cajun belles are another great pepper if you like it a little milder than that. I'm not sure exactly what qualifying qualities paprika has but I use ground Hungarian wax peppers or Cajun belles in place of it in most of my recipes.

I don't think very many of us pepper growers come out ahead money wise with our pepper growing hobbies.

Absa-toot-ly! And many grow many different peppers for many different reasons. What I'm saying is weighing the effort to do this for an easily available commodity against growing peppers that are not easily available that you'd like to try. I don't grow Jals to make Chipotles when they are easily available at almost every stupermarket here in New England. YMMV

Hot Hungarian Wax is my go to pepper, but I have never thought to use them for powder (Paprika). I typically use hotter varieties for my powders but maybe I will dry and grind a bunch of them next year.

Thanks to everyone. We just placed our order and I was deciding between hot Hungarian wax and krimzon lee down to the very last minute. I went with krimzon lee.

I love our powders from last year's peppers. Just last night we made Nashville hot chicken with our own ground paprika and cayenne. Today I have a pot of navy bean soup going and added a healthy pinch of our paprika.

db6040: You made the right choice. Not so much because I think krimzon lee is better than HHW, but you can find HHW seeds in most seed racks at the local garden center. Pick up a $1.00 pack and give them a try as well.

Good luck

Grow sweet peppers!! They are expensive, one of the few things that turn a profit in my garden.

I am trying Leutschaeur Paprika Pepper this year, from Baker's Creek.

Last weekend I powdered all the paprika peppers I had dried during the 2016 season. I ended up with 8 ounces of paprika. The varieties that went into this were Szegedi 20, Szegedi 80, Kalocsai 622, and a few Kurtovska Kapija pods.

Kurtovska, from Macedonia, isn't a true paprika variety, but it produces well, has no heat, and can be used in place of a red sweet pepper in salads, etc.

db6040, I saved seeds for all these and will be pleased to send you some.

I made my first smoked paprika on Thanksgiving. I used my smoked and dried Hungarian Wax peppers. It turned out fantastic. As the others have said, just add a few hotter peppers to adjust the piquance.

I like to start a bunch of peppers and sell the plants at the FM to pay for my seed habit. Occasionally some guy will come up and ask if I have any of those pepper plants from last year cuz they were great … had a few folks buy peppers for paprika … got a crap ton of hungarian peppers for this year. names sounded exotic and interesting …

dave

A Hungarian friend goes crazy over our mesquite-smoked ripe Serranos, says it's close to what his granny used.

I have seeds for several supposedly authentic "paprika" peppers to try this year. Will report back.

can hardly wait … yum .. oink … etc

>> I don't grow Jals to make Chipotles when they are easily available at almost every stupermarket here in New England. YMMV>>

Except for the fact that making chipotle is wicked time consuming.

that all may be true, but there is something special about being able to say … hey, i made this .. like jams n jellies … etc etc etc