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This started pretty innocently. I originally planted a few peppers because I wanted fresher ingredients for homemade hot sauce and figured it would be fun to grow some of my own.

Then I discovered how many ridiculous pepper varieties are actually out there.

One plant turned into a few. A few turned into way too many. Before long I was hunting down rare varieties of peppers that honestly don’t even look real.

These are just some of the ones I’ve harvested recently:
Peach Wrinkly, Yellow Devil’s Tongue, Purple Carolina Reaper, Red Ghost Pepper, Peach Miasma, Habanero, Hallows Eve, RB003, Pockmark Orange, Thor’s Thunderbolt, Thai Chile, Dragon’s Breath, Yellow Carolina Reaper, Aji Lemon Drop and Caribbean Red Habanero.
The funniest part is how different they all are when you actually grow them side by side. Some are smooth and almost harmless looking, while others come off the plant looking like they were specifically designed to warn you not to eat them.

At this point, growing the peppers has become just as much of a hobby as making hot sauce. Every harvest feels a little like opening a pack of trading cards and seeing what weird thing the garden produced this time. These peppers will go in my ribbit riot hot sauce test batches!

What’s the strangest or most interesting pepper/plant you’ve ever grown?

All 15 of these were grown in my backyard here in Orange County. I started with a few habaneros and somehow ended up growing everything from Peach Wrinklys and Ghost Peppers to Carolina Reapers, Peach Miasma, Dragon’s Breath and a bunch of other weird superhots.

The amount of sun and the long growing season here have been incredible for peppers. A lot of these eventually make their way into my hot sauce experiments, but honestly growing strange varieties has become half the fun. These peppers will go in my ribbit riot hot sauce test batches!

Anyone else in OC growing peppers or other unusual produce this year?

A few months ago these were tiny plants I was checking basically every day, wondering which ones would actually produce.

Latest harvest from the garden. There’s dragons breath, red Carolina reapers, thor’s thunderbolt, hallows eve, kaos, red ghost peppers, yellow devils tongue, peach wrinkly, and Aji lemondrop! 🌶️

The Peach Miasmas might be some of the coolest peppers I’ve ever grown, and the Orange Carolina Reapers are finally coming in too. The peach miasma are definitely going in an experimental batch of my ribbit riot hot sauce!

Which one are you eating first?

Still kind of shocked by this.
I entered four different sauces into the OC Fair Culinary Arts competition this year:
🌶️ Hop Sauce —** Division Winner / Best Hot Sauce + 1st Place
🥭 Croakatoa — 1st Place, Fruit Based
👑 Royal Ribbit — 1st Place + Judges Award for Uniqueness
🌶️ Jalapeño Jefe — 2nd Place, Pepper Blen**d
The weirdest one is probably Royal Ribbit — plum + habanero infused with Earl Grey tea.
I’ve spent a ridiculous amount of time growing peppers and working on these recipes, so seeing all four place was pretty surreal. This was all very exciting for my ribbit riot hot sauce!
Which of the four flavor combinations would you actually want to try?

Figured some fellow OC people might appreciate this.
I entered four hot sauces into the OC Fair Culinary Arts competition this year and every one of them ended up placing:
🏆 Hop Sauce — Division Winner / Best Hot Sauce + 1st Place
🥭 Croakatoa — 1st Place, Fruit Based
👑 Royal Ribbit — 1st Place + Judges Award for Uniqueness
🌶️ Jalapeño Jefe —** 2nd Place, Pepper Blen**d
The sauces range from a straightforward habanero sauce to mango-pineapple habanero and even a plum + Earl Grey + habanero sauce.
Seeing my jars sitting there at the OC Fair with those ribbons was pretty freaking cool!
Anyone else enter anything in the Culinary Arts competition this year?

Golden bell pepper spinning, slicing, and satisfying pepper ASMR from Ribbit Riot Hot Sauce. 🔪🌶️
#OddlySatisfying #ASMR #HotSauce #RibbitRiot #BellPepper

This Primotalii Red has been one of the coolest pepper plants I’ve grown this season. The pods are ripening through some wild colors before eventually turning red, and the plant is producing like crazy.
I’m planning to use these in an upcoming batch of Ribbit Riot hot sauce. Super curious how the Primotalii’s heat and flavor come through in the finished sauce.
Anyone here grown Primotalii Red before? What did you think of the flavor?

I grew 50+ pepper varieties this year, and the Peach Miasma pepper might be the one that surprised me most. 🌶️
I grow a lot of unusual and superhot peppers for Ribbit Riot Hot Sauce, so I expected the Peach Miasma to bring some serious heat. What I didn’t expect was how much I’d like everything else about it.
The pods are HUGE, the peach color is beautiful, and the gnarly shape makes them one of the best-looking superhot peppers in my garden. The biggest surprise, though, was the flavor. It actually tastes good for an insanely hot pepper.
Growing superhot peppers and experimenting with different varieties for hot sauce has made me appreciate peppers for a lot more than their heat. Peach Miasma has the size, appearance, flavor and fire all in one.
Definitely one of my favorite peppers I’ve grown this year and one I’m excited to experiment with at Ribbit Riot.
Anyone else growing Peach Miasma peppers this season? How big are your pods getting?
— Ribbit Riot Hot Sauce 🐸🌶️

Finally had another big harvest from my garden in Orange County, CA. This haul includes Carolina Reapers, Ghost peppers, Scorpions, Habaneros, Jalapeños, Peach Miasma, RB003, Himo Togarashi, Thor’s thunderbolt, Thai Chile, Orange Carolina Reapers, Mad Hatter, Primotalli Red, and a bunch of other superhots and specialty varieties.
Most of these are headed into fermented hot sauce batches, and I’m especially excited to see how the RB003 and Peach Miasma develop after fermentation.
My favorite part of growing peppers is seeing how every pod has its own shape, color, and personality.
Which pepper in the photo catches your eye first? And if you had to make one hot sauce from this harvest, what would you include?

These will eventually become test runs for small-batch sauces under my brand, Ribbit Riot (hot sauce), but today I’m mostly just excited about the harvest.

Finally had another big harvest from my garden in Orange County, CA. This haul includes Carolina Reapers, Ghost peppers, Scorpions, Habaneros, Jalapeños, Peach Miasma, RB003, Himo Togarashi, Thor’s thunderbolt, Thai Chile, Orange Carolina Reapers, Mad Hatter, Primotalli Red, and a bunch of other superhots and specialty varieties.
Most of these are headed into fermented hot sauce batches, and I’m especially excited to see how the RB003 and Peach Miasma develop after fermentation.
My favorite part of growing peppers is seeing how every pod has its own shape, color, and personality.
Which pepper in the photo catches your eye first? And if you had to make one hot sauce from this harvest, what would you include?

These will eventually become test runs for small-batch sauces under my brand, Ribbit Riot (hot sauce), but today I’m mostly just excited about the harvest.

Game Title:
Pepper Panic

Playable Link:
https://ribbitriot.com/pages/pepper-panic

Platform:
Web Browser (HTML5)

Description:
Pepper Panic is a free browser arcade game I built for my hot sauce brand, Ribbit Riot. Inspired by my obsession with growing superhot peppers like Carolina Reapers, Dragon’s Breath, Chocolate Primotalii, RB003, and other rare pepper varieties, the game challenges you to dodge incoming peppers, survive as long as possible, and climb the global leaderboard.
The game is quick to learn but difficult to master, making it perfect for short play sessions while chasing a higher score. I’m continuously improving the gameplay and would love feedback on the controls, difficulty, pacing, and overall fun factor. Whether you’re a gamer, pepper enthusiast, or just looking for a quick challenge, I’d really appreciate hearing what you think and how I can make Pepper Panic even better.

Free to Play Status:
Free to play

Involvement:
I designed, programmed, tested, and published Pepper Panic myself as a solo developer. I also created the Ribbit Riot brand that inspired the game’s theme and continue updating both the game and the website based on player feedback

After months of growing, these are some of the superhot peppers I’ve harvested this season, including Carolina Reapers, Chocolate Primotalii, Dragon’s Breath, RB003, Gator Jigsaw, Death Spiral, Peach Miasma, Thor’s Thunderbolt, Snow White Moruga, Yellow Devil’s tongue, and several other rare varieties.
Which one catches your eye, and what’s the hottest pepper you’ve ever eaten?
Happy to answer any questions about growing, flavor, heat, pepper care, or about Ribbit Riot Hot Sauce.