Mine are doing the same. After a bit of geeking out…I realized it was overwatering and temp stress. Cold ass nights here in northern Indiana, as well as some heavy storms. Solution: no more feedings / waterings until pots dry out. Then 2 consecutive pure water soaks, so they’re not locked out from nutes this early in the game. The soil still has a ton of nutrients for em. It’s gonna be fine. When in doubt water less and then don’t feed for a cycle or two.
Aside from some leaf wrinkle…they’re fine. Superhots grow slowly. It’s gonna be fine.
boterkoek3
Every single reaper I have ever grown or purchased has leaves like this. I think some of it is just genetics
GetUp4theDownVote
Be weary of mosaic virus. Pretty sure that’s got ahold of a couple of mine
Low_Density
My reapers look very similar. In particularly the newest growth up top is curled up. I’m almost positive in my case it’s aphids. They suck the sap from the leafs which cause them to curl. After using pesticide this week the new growth is looking much better.
Just-An-Inchident44
My ghost pepper just stopped growing idk what happened. All the bottom old growth leaves fell off without me touching them, then the plant somehow topped itself and is growing in a Y shape, then it just stopped growing.
Elon_Bezos420
Your entire plant looks fine, some leaves will grow weird sometimes as long as it looks healthy, I don’t see a issue
CityBuckets
I have the same on all my super hotts. Between the cold nights and various temps in the day, with rain on and off my plants are just pissed off. Lol. I’m in Chicago and had my stuff in The garden mid April. Very early for me this year so I’m dealing with the leave issues as well. But as the days get warmer they’re looking much better. Good luck.
larryboylarry
Calcium deficiency. I have this problem with a lot of my plants and tried all kinds of fixes but finally ended up buying a bag of calcium nitrate and this was the best option. I feed my plants a hydroponic fertilizer blend for peppers and alternate feedings with calcium nitrate when I notice the deficiency. I use it less frequently because it really adds a lot of nitrogen.
Aside from poor Ca availability in your growing medium inconsistency of irrigating practices or other disruption in flow can cause Ca deficiency symptoms because Ca is only mobile in the xylem so anything that inhibits the flow of water and nutrients will cause deficiency symptoms. When this happens while the plant is actively growing you will see these symptoms. Things that can disrupt the flow of water in the xylem can be anything inhibiting transpiration like high growing temperatures, high humidity, low light intensity, poor air flow in the canopy, high salinity, growing medium too dry or growing medium too wet (root damage). Additionally, Ca uptake in the rhizosphere can be inhibited by low soil pH or nutrient imbalances like excess magnesium.
Quick fixes can be made with foliar sprays of calcium chloride (pickle crisp) or calcium nitrate. But these don’t address any deficiencies in the growing medium. I eventually bought a bag of calcium nitrate to use in the growing medium. I alternate feedings with my main fertilizer because of incompatibility of mixing the two and applying at the same time. Mixing calcium nitrate with fertilizers containing either phosphates or sulphates can form precipitates making calcium phosphate or calcium sulphate which reduces availability of calcium.
For long term application you can incorporate into your growing medium calcitic limestone (small quantities of calcium carbonate) or dolomitic limestone (small quantities of calcium carbonate and magnesium carbonate) of which both will change soil pH or gypsum (calcium sulphate) which does not change soil pH.
frankp2491
It’s overwatering
sdotumd
That plant looks super healthy to me, but I’m not an expert.
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I think this is the 6th post I’ve seen this week about leaf like this.
I also have crumpling leafs.
I have no idea what’s going on.
These don’t look appreciably different than most of the carolina reaper pics I see on google with tons of peppers popping out of them.
Pests. Sometimes thrips, sometimes spider mites, mostly aphids.
Have a close look at the top of the leaves and the undersides – can you see anything that looks like insects?
Otherwise it could just be a bit of deformed growth and will recover as that plant looks pretty damn healthy.
https://preview.redd.it/m4t5sqrbsb5f1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7eb5a9271f5d0884fecc36a46e61f9ff650ebdc9
Mine are doing the same. After a bit of geeking out…I realized it was overwatering and temp stress. Cold ass nights here in northern Indiana, as well as some heavy storms. Solution: no more feedings / waterings until pots dry out. Then 2 consecutive pure water soaks, so they’re not locked out from nutes this early in the game. The soil still has a ton of nutrients for em. It’s gonna be fine. When in doubt water less and then don’t feed for a cycle or two.
Aside from some leaf wrinkle…they’re fine. Superhots grow slowly. It’s gonna be fine.
Every single reaper I have ever grown or purchased has leaves like this. I think some of it is just genetics
Be weary of mosaic virus. Pretty sure that’s got ahold of a couple of mine
My reapers look very similar. In particularly the newest growth up top is curled up. I’m almost positive in my case it’s aphids. They suck the sap from the leafs which cause them to curl. After using pesticide this week the new growth is looking much better.
My ghost pepper just stopped growing idk what happened. All the bottom old growth leaves fell off without me touching them, then the plant somehow topped itself and is growing in a Y shape, then it just stopped growing.
Your entire plant looks fine, some leaves will grow weird sometimes as long as it looks healthy, I don’t see a issue
I have the same on all my super hotts. Between the cold nights and various temps in the day, with rain on and off my plants are just pissed off. Lol. I’m in Chicago and had my stuff in The garden mid April. Very early for me this year so I’m dealing with the leave issues as well. But as the days get warmer they’re looking much better. Good luck.
Calcium deficiency. I have this problem with a lot of my plants and tried all kinds of fixes but finally ended up buying a bag of calcium nitrate and this was the best option. I feed my plants a hydroponic fertilizer blend for peppers and alternate feedings with calcium nitrate when I notice the deficiency. I use it less frequently because it really adds a lot of nitrogen.
Aside from poor Ca availability in your growing medium inconsistency of irrigating practices or other disruption in flow can cause Ca deficiency symptoms because Ca is only mobile in the xylem so anything that inhibits the flow of water and nutrients will cause deficiency symptoms. When this happens while the plant is actively growing you will see these symptoms. Things that can disrupt the flow of water in the xylem can be anything inhibiting transpiration like high growing temperatures, high humidity, low light intensity, poor air flow in the canopy, high salinity, growing medium too dry or growing medium too wet (root damage). Additionally, Ca uptake in the rhizosphere can be inhibited by low soil pH or nutrient imbalances like excess magnesium.
Quick fixes can be made with foliar sprays of calcium chloride (pickle crisp) or calcium nitrate. But these don’t address any deficiencies in the growing medium. I eventually bought a bag of calcium nitrate to use in the growing medium. I alternate feedings with my main fertilizer because of incompatibility of mixing the two and applying at the same time. Mixing calcium nitrate with fertilizers containing either phosphates or sulphates can form precipitates making calcium phosphate or calcium sulphate which reduces availability of calcium.
For long term application you can incorporate into your growing medium calcitic limestone (small quantities of calcium carbonate) or dolomitic limestone (small quantities of calcium carbonate and magnesium carbonate) of which both will change soil pH or gypsum (calcium sulphate) which does not change soil pH.
It’s overwatering
That plant looks super healthy to me, but I’m not an expert.