My interest in hot peppers began about 25 years ago. A friend from Hondo, TX, well known for his hot sauces and salsas, asked if I would grow him some habanero peppers.
He handed me some seeds, and as the plants grew up and flourished and produced an amazingly bountiful crop, I started to understand just how much fun growing these plants could be. Before long I found myself on the road to growing the hottest peppers I could find.
The heat measurement of peppers is referred to in Scoville units. Measured now with high-performance liquid chromatography, these units of heat intensity were originally formulated by the American pharmacist Wilber Scoville to measure the level of pure capsaicin within hot peppers.
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