Freshly Germinated Carolina Reapers!

craigcryptoking (69)in #nature • 4 years ago

Hey everyone, last year I purchased Carolina Reaper seeds for a 'top dollar' price. $8 odd for 10 seeds, madness right? I guess the old adage of supply and demand applies here. With those seeds I grew one or two really big prolific plants and started growing my own on a larger scale with the seeds from said plants!

I tried many growing techniques. These are really popular so wanted to grow and sell them. I grew many from cuttings off the main plant, however this technique really takes time. So now what I do is harvest seeds from the 50 odd plants on the mothership and grow the babies from there. I get around 20 -30 seeds per pod x around 60 pods. So with that can produce a nice number of baby Carolina Reapers!

As of 2017 the Carolina Reaper was deemed the World's Hottest Chilli check that out here as per wikipedia: The sensory heat or pungency detected when consuming a Carolina Reaper derives from the density of capsaicinoids, particularly capsaicin, which relates directly to intensity of chili pepper heat and Scoville scale.[3] Bred in a Rock Hill, South Carolina greenhouse by "Smokin" Ed Currie, proprietor of the PuckerButt Pepper Company in Fort Mill, the Carolina Reaper was certified as the world's hottest chili pepper by the Guinness World Records on August 11, 2017.[4][5] The official Guinness World Record heat level was 1,641,183 Scoville Heat Units (SHU) in 2017, according to tests conducted by Winthrop University in South Carolina. The figure is an average for the tested batch; the hottest individual pepper was measured at 2.2 million SHU.[5][6]

The crossbreed is between a "really nastily hot" La Soufriere pepper from the Caribbean island of St. Vincent and a Naga Viper pepper from Pakistan,[7] and is named 'Reaper' due to the shape of its tail. It has been described as having a fruity taste, with the initial bite being sweet and then immediately turning to "molten lava".[8][9]

In May 2017, Mike Smith of St Asaph, Wales working with Nottingham Trent University, claimed to have surpassed the Carolina Reaper with his Dragon's Breath pepper, reported to be 2.4 million SHUs, and applied to Guinness World Records for confirmation.[10] However, In September 2017, Ed Currie claimed to have bred a stronger pepper known as Pepper X having 3.18 million SHUs.[11]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_Reaper

Above and below my 'bumper crop' this is what a nice mature SUPER HOT Carolina Reaper looks like in all its glory! The technique used to dry seeds are simply leave on the tree until they start to soften or simply wait until red as they are here and extract seeds, dry out for a few days and then plant!