The plant was labeled a Carolina Reaper (world's hottest) at the Farmers Market...but it doesn't look anything like a reaper.

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7/17/2014 10:55:16 PM

bite into it and get back to us.

7/17/2014 10:58:04 PM

A buddy did (I wasn't around)...he ate like half of it, said he had maybe 8-10 seeds and shit is def hot. Got red, sweats etc but didn't puke so I'm doubting it's actually a reaper.

[Edited on July 17, 2014 at 11:01 PM. Reason : according to youtube that seems to be the metric if eaten whole at least]

7/17/2014 11:00:47 PM

They look the same...the 2nd one just looks dried up.

7/18/2014 7:47:55 AM

^

7/18/2014 8:15:25 AM

it's probably a cross breed/pollination from another plant.

I've a bhut jolokia plant, and they have the bumps/nodules on them as they grow. the pic above is what they look like ripe. (dried, come on, the stems are still green)

7/18/2014 9:01:02 AM

It is probably a reaper that you picked too early. It's still yellow on the bottom, you should have left it on the plant for a few more weeks.

[Edited on July 18, 2014 at 9:43 AM. Reason : a]

7/18/2014 9:42:51 AM

to me, those look the same to me

7/18/2014 9:42:55 AM

Seriously, you picked it way too early.

7/18/2014 10:28:18 AM

Sweet....i only picked the one so we'll see what happens with the rest.

[Edited on July 18, 2014 at 11:16 AM. Reason : I can only imagine they're gonna get hotter]

7/18/2014 11:15:49 AM

7/18/2014 4:57:28 PM

Well it's been 3 weeks, and they really haven't changed that much

8/7/2014 5:09:21 PM

I got one that looks like that that was labeled "scorpion butch t". But looks nothing like the scorpions I grew last year.

Are your leaf sizes small?

Did you buy from Steve's plants at the farmers market?

8/7/2014 6:51:41 PM

here's my reaper

And this is my "scorpion butch t" that I also suspect is mislabeled

8/7/2014 6:59:11 PM

a (piece of) reaper collapsed my throat for a few seconds and gave me horrible hiccups aside from being ridiculously hot. The reaper sauces are doable; I can probably take half a bottle of the stuff with a steak but I have the highest pepper heat tolerance of anyone I know

8/7/2014 8:02:03 PM

why are you ruining a perfectly good steak by drowning it in pepper sauce?

8/8/2014 8:08:40 AM

Quote :

"I got one that looks like that that was labeled "scorpion butch t". But looks nothing like the scorpions I grew last year. Are your leaf sizes small? Did you buy from Steve's plants at the farmers market?"

Thanks for your pics...it's becoming clear that I ain't growing reapers

I did get the plant from the farmers market, but I don't remember the vender. If you park in the middle of that first building, in between the plant side on the left and the veggie side on the right, enter the building, turn left towards the plants, walk down past about 4-5 venders, it was right there on the right? I got some other plants from there and they were fine so who knows. They were definitely marked as reapers tho.

I got a tomato plant from another vender (mostly herbs, on the left) and it had fucking termites on the soil so I'm with these two events, not sure I'm gonna buy plants from there again.

8/8/2014 10:11:12 AM

Updated pic...kinda looks like your mislabeled plant puck_it



[Edited on August 8, 2014 at 10:14 AM. Reason : whatever they are they look ripe right???]

8/8/2014 10:13:48 AM

That sounds like Steve's plants. They're about midway down the plant side on the side with the giant parking lot.

I've had good luck with them the previous few years, but glad to know I wasn't the only one who got a weird variety. They're definitely hot, but I haven't got a clue what it is.

8/8/2014 11:00:00 AM

Are they still there at the farmers market? If so I'm gonna ask them about this next time I'm there.

So it appears we have the same plant right? Have you eaten any of yours yet?

8/8/2014 11:25:26 AM

Yeah I threw a little bit into some salsa. Its definitely a hot pepper. No clue on variety.

They should be there. Let me know what they say.

8/8/2014 1:09:35 PM

Peppers are either hot or milder based on how much water you give them. The second pic looks like a reaper that has been deprived of water. This is going to make it super hot. Yours look like they've been planted in a pool. Reduce the watering if you want them hot and potent.

8/8/2014 1:15:46 PM

Got to the bottom of it!

Went to Steve's Plants and as soon as I mentioned "I bought a pepper plant..." she cut me off and asked if it was a reaper. Evidently their [old] supplier sold them the wrong seeds. She's super pissed off at them, still. She gave me a free (actual) reaper plant as a replacement and I bought a couple others.

She's not sure what these peppers actually are. She said maybe ghost, maybe Bhut (I think that was the weird sounding one she mentioned). She had some more of them marked as an "extreme inferno" so who the hell knows.

The guy who ate mine said it was habanero hot, but I wasn't stressing the plant at the time and am just getting into that now.

8/8/2014 2:39:53 PM

TIL synapse is too scared to eat the vegetables he grew himself.

[Edited on August 8, 2014 at 3:11 PM. Reason : yup]

8/8/2014 3:10:41 PM

Lies. I eat the fuck out of my tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and squash.

[Edited on August 8, 2014 at 3:33 PM. Reason : and i bet $5 i eat one of these peppers before you]

8/8/2014 3:31:43 PM

Quote :

"I have the highest pepper heat tolerance of anyone I know "

I have heard so many people say this before.

Quote :

"She said maybe ghost, maybe Bhut (I think that was the weird sounding one she mentioned)."

fyi a ghost pepper = bhut jolokia

8/8/2014 3:39:41 PM

It's my experience with jalapenos that the longer you leave them on the plant, the sweeter they get. I like hot ones, but I also like to leave some on until the turn completely red.

8/8/2014 4:34:39 PM

^^my culture is all about them thai peppers and they're generally hotter than anything in american cuisine, in my experience, unless you go out and specifically order the hottest hot wings from wing chains. I had 2 co-workers who could stomach the reaper sauce, but neither could keep eating it for the rest of the meal. One did eat half a reaper without passing out, so that was pretty good

the hottest readily-available peppers seem to be habaneros, but I don't know anything about how mexicans use them

[Edited on August 8, 2014 at 5:06 PM. Reason : 1.2 million scoville sauce, hombre!]

8/8/2014 5:04:34 PM

Its definitely not ghost. I also have stressed the plant quite a bit... None of them exhibit signs of curling up. The pod isn't shaped the same either.

Additionally the leaf size is pretty small. Any of the super hot varieties I've had have all had far broader leaves.

[Edited on August 8, 2014 at 6:55 PM. Reason : .]

8/8/2014 6:54:34 PM

How hot were these to you puck_it?

I throw one in a curry every now and then and get some nice heat out of it...nothing crazy though. Might try two next time.

10/26/2014 5:36:07 PM

damn i didn't realize bhut jolokia was now ranked the 3rd hottest pepper

10/26/2014 7:24:03 PM

^coach's poll or AP?

10/26/2014 8:16:50 PM

BCScoville

10/26/2014 9:48:32 PM