I know you can get powdered Habanero online at places like Mountain Rose, not sure about whole. Do you not have any farmer's market nearby or health food store with produce? These days even some of the bigger grocery store chains often have an assortment of hot peppers in the Produce section. Ideal is to grow your own but I would rather get whole peppers at grocery chain instead of ground online but this is my preference and maybe not yours.


About the plants you are growing, whether or not they have time to ripen, do your plants at least have green fruit on them or still in flowering stage? If they have decent sized fruit, even if green or perhaps starting to change from green to yellow but not yet that classic Habanero orange, this is ripe enough to get some benefit either for eating, pickling, making tincture, or drying or ..... however you intended to use them.