I ordered a batch of Carolina Reaper seeds from PuckerButt. They produced a good yield of Carolina Reaper plants except one plant I believed was diseased because of the color green the fruits were developing but they do resemble the fruit of Pepper X. I haven’t tried it. Just curious on if this is a coincidence or do I have a gem?
by davidk36
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Unsure but potentially huge if true.
It does look similar to the one in this thumbnail – https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hUYtDA7j19c/hqdefault.jpg
The yellow to green fade looks distinctive to my untrained eye. Would be hilarious if this is how everyone ended up having access to Pepper X.
No. You can’t but pepper x seeds
That does look like it. Wanna share some seeds with your fellow redditors?
Damn, if true will you be selling any seeds?
Would be amazing for the public to once again have access to the worlds hottest pepper.
Kind of looks like it! I’m guessing you’ll be hearing from Mr. Currie’s attorneys shortly. Lawyer up and hopefully there’s a way you can get that bag!
👀
Either way, these things are cool looking!
You’ll have to do a side by side comparison with a Carolina Reaper. If it’s significantly hotter than the Reaper, it is probably an X. I recommend live-streaming your experiment. 🤭
I have peppers that were listed as Gator Jigsaw, they look similar to yours but are much larger.
https://preview.redd.it/0tenwfgw7fpd1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0118cb6fd6864676d130e9cb07a413ee66abb392
I’m just jealous because I had about a 4% germination rate from all the PB seeds I planted this year and that 4%, zero were the correct peppers
You could email PuckerButt and ask. Show them your pictures.
If they sent them by accident it’s their mistake and they can’t punish you for growing it.
DO NOT sell or redistribute them. I’m not sure the legal implications, but you could be in trouble if they have patents.
can i buy some seeds my guy
Im sorry, im all new to pepper news. Some peppers belong to specific people? I’m going through the comments and i dont understand what people are saying.
You gotta try it now
It’s possible that the seeds came off a reaper that was cross pollinated with pepper x. As such, the seeds from this one are likely unstable and could go any direction reaper or pepper x. Although, I’m curious if this might continue to ripen red? Looks orangish
I can tell you what I think if you send me a bunch of seeds for it. You know, just to be on the safe side.
You gotta report back once you’ve tasted it to tell us all how hot it is. And you gotta save the seeds. It could be something like a big mustard mama, not sure if puckerbutt sells that particular variety, but this is really interesting to see what happens
Probably big mustard mama… mine look the same. They are definitely hot though
Eat one and find out
Just be extremely careful if it turns out to be Pepper X. You don’t want to get sued trying to sell it.
https://preview.redd.it/66ob6vwj1gpd1.png?width=910&format=png&auto=webp&s=bdd71060bc75940da2236a42a405a11bfb7c3a40
Another view of the dark maze yellow that it starts to fade into.
My guess is this is an accidental cross with sth else. Don’t think they would keep their patented Pepper X plants close enough to any other pepper to cross pollinate. However, you can try and grow its seeds next season and see what comes out. If it is the X it should be stable, if not F2 is most likely gonna look completely different.
Huh, my I’m on the 2nd fruiting of my carolina reaper plant, and all of them look like this…
I think I’ll just call them mustard reapers
https://preview.redd.it/qvbpc7dl7gpd1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=350b02a98cd099d10c684952440b49c85338db87
Even if they aren’t, they have a really sick color scheme. You should do a giveaway!
…or just give some to me…