Growing Carolina Reaper's and Other Hot Peppers!

[PalmTreeDude]

I have some Carolina Reaper (current offical worlds hottest pepper) seedlings and some Cayenne peppers growing. I will hear foods with some spice, but I probably wont eat the Carolina Reapers, but it is cool to say that you grow them! 

[PalmTreeDude]

[PalmTreeDude]

They are slow, but will be hot! 

 

Edited July 1, 2018 by PalmTreeDude

[PalmTreeDude]

And the Cayanne peppers. 

[Xenon]

Nice! Are you growing the reaper outdoors? It needs a very long season, you will probably have to overwinter it to get a good harvest next year.

Very easy to become addicted to peppers...so many varieties to choose from! I particularly like Capsicum chinense types. 

Cumari do Para from Brazil. Amazing little pepper with fantastic taste and aroma. It's also a compact plant, definitely my favorite. 

Aji Cochabamba 

PA-559, a nematode resistant red habanero. 
Aji Jobito from Venezuela. Capsicum chinense with no heat! Very interesting and complex flavor. The plant also has very large, lush looking leaves. 

[PalmTreeDude]

1 hour ago, Xenon said:

Nice! Are you growing the reaper outdoors? It needs a very long season, you will probably have to overwinter it to get a good harvest next year.

Very easy to become addicted to peppers...so many varieties to choose from! I particularly like Capsicum chinense types. 

Cumari do Para from Brazil. Amazing little pepper with fantastic taste and aroma. It's also a compact plant, definitely my favorite. 

Aji Cochabamba 

PA-559, a nematode resistant red habanero. 
Aji Jobito from Venezuela. Capsicum chinense with no heat! Very interesting and complex flavor. The plant also has very large, lush looking leaves. 

Dang, you got a lot of hot peppers! I am growing them outdoors, I think I may repot them (probably within the next 30 minutes after posting this). I will eventually put them in a garden. They have actually started to grow pretty quickly now. I have done a crap load of research on growing these, and it was a big pain getting only three out of the many seeds I ordered from the Puckerbutt Pepper Company to grow. I would have started them earlier, but I didn't get the idea to try and grow them until early may. Next year I will start them right before spring. I had eaten one of these before and let's say I was in pain for about an hour. But here I am growing them, haha. 

Edited July 5, 2018 by PalmTreeDude
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[GDLWyverex]

On 7/1/2018, 10:39:21, PalmTreeDude said:

I have some Carolina Reaper (current offical worlds hottest pepper) seedlings and some Cayenne peppers growing. I will hear foods with some spice, but I probably wont eat the Carolina Reapers, but it is cool to say that you grow them! 

 

The cayenne is very popular here and I usually cut the peppers up and put them in olive oil.

I have a nice crop of Bhut Jolokia orange ghost peppers that I now am mixing with the cayenne oil

My trinidad scorpions are growing but have yet to flower and bear chiles. If they are anything like the ghosts, I have another year yet to wait. The Ghosts took 2 years to produce.

When I make spicy shrimp we all find ourselves crying because it hurts so gooooood

Richard

 

 

 

Edited July 5, 2018 by GDLWyverex

[Johnk9]

Carolina Reaper's grow big here in S.W Florida my plants are 4' - 5' tall.Try the Carbonero pepper they are great.

 

 

 

[Silas_Sancona]

For the moment, growing a few Chiltepin ( Tepin= round) and " Pequin" (Pequin= longer/ narrower peppers) but have grown many others. 

Both take our heat ( and far more neglect than i'd have imagined) well, especially if given some afternoon shade, and can get huge if winter frost doesn't cut them back. Working on a collection of wild collected Chiltepin varieties sourced directly from southern Sonora.  

On a side note, While that debate may not yet be settled, saw that there may be two other hot peppers which may be hotter than Carolina R's. "Pepper X" @3m+ scoville units and "Dragon's Breath" @2.4m scoville units.

Love hot peppers but holy ! if true.

[TexasColdHardyPalms]

Tom Broome @ cycadjungle started growing hot peppers.  I think he has a website of seriouslyhotpeppers.com.  It was interesting seeing peppers surrounded by cycads and palms there in Lakeland.