Bought Carolina Reaper seeds but now I doubt they are
Any ideas what these are?
by Return_of_the_funk
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nahnikkafukkyou
Havana Pepper
Lil_Shanties
If you bought this from a reputable source and can rule out simply mixing up labels then it’s most likely that this is a hybrid from a cross pollination of the reaper flower your seed eventually came from and another unknown pepper. Your best guess is as close as you will get to knowing what pepper donated the pollen (I’m guessing Habanero with 2% confidence). This is extremely common when a vendor does not specifically state the pepper was bred in isolation or not bred in isolation aka “non-isolated”…lots of small start up companies get bad names and are deemed “Peppergate” (Bonnie and Pepper Joe have no excuse) over this common problem because they don’t have the means to isolate but want to get into the market place.
If however this came from an isolated batch which means only other reapers could potentially have pollenated it then that’s concerning. Reapers are fairly stabilized so you wouldn’t expect them to throw off too much variation, possible but less than likely, hybrid peppers and F1/F2 peppers are far more likely to show mutations than a stabilized F5+ seed.
Samplestave
Tis a fine chili, but sure it is no Reaper English.
4 Comments
Havana Pepper
If you bought this from a reputable source and can rule out simply mixing up labels then it’s most likely that this is a hybrid from a cross pollination of the reaper flower your seed eventually came from and another unknown pepper. Your best guess is as close as you will get to knowing what pepper donated the pollen (I’m guessing Habanero with 2% confidence). This is extremely common when a vendor does not specifically state the pepper was bred in isolation or not bred in isolation aka “non-isolated”…lots of small start up companies get bad names and are deemed “Peppergate” (Bonnie and Pepper Joe have no excuse) over this common problem because they don’t have the means to isolate but want to get into the market place.
If however this came from an isolated batch which means only other reapers could potentially have pollenated it then that’s concerning. Reapers are fairly stabilized so you wouldn’t expect them to throw off too much variation, possible but less than likely, hybrid peppers and F1/F2 peppers are far more likely to show mutations than a stabilized F5+ seed.
Tis a fine chili, but sure it is no Reaper English.
Should have got your seeds from Ed.