r/HotPeppers • u/cinek5885 • Oct 27 '24
''carolina reaper's'' at my local farm shop 😂 Discussion
Isn't this false advertising?
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u/LeftArmPies Oct 27 '24
Now I understand why all these people claim to eat a raw Caroline reaper every morning.
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u/SnooOpinions8755 Oct 27 '24
I see one with a gnarly tail that could pass as one. As long as there is one they could probably claim it was a mistake and others got mixed in. Some bs though for sure.
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u/ashrocklynn Oct 27 '24
Absolutely false advertising, but anyone who doesn't know peppers is still probably going to find these hot as hell tbh.... They are at least beautiful looking Habs, id buy the heck out of these (units they are overpriced) the habs in the stores around me are always so sad...
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u/ScrimpyCat Oct 27 '24
They likely are reapers. Reapers have been known to be a pretty weak pheno, perhaps nowadays some growers may have done a better job stabilising them, but if you were growing them earlier they were pretty unstable. So there will be a lot of messy phenos out in the wild as they were released like that.
One year a grew out many reaper plants and ended up with lots of variety. The traits that were consistent were flavour, a tail (sometimes a little point like in your photo, while others had a more pronounced tail), and some ridges running from just under the calyx down (not necessarily as pronounced as in the picture but you could make them out). Whereas traits that were unstable were things like bumpiness (majority of the plants produced bumpy pods but you would get some that produced smooth ones like this), the bulby reaper shape (some would be long instead), distribution of placental tissue, and heat (smooth pods while still very hot were far less hot than other pods).
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u/timvelden93 Oct 27 '24
Even if all of this is true, they look like habanero's so that would be the more logical conclusion. Ockham's razor and such
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u/Friendly-Ad6808 Oct 27 '24
However, reapers were bred from la soufiere (savinas) some it could just be an unstable crop.
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u/ScrimpyCat Oct 27 '24
Here’s some examples of some off type reapers I ended up with out of a batch: https://imgur.com/a/7mpjZcm 2 of the plants you can see produced those smooth hab like pods. All plants grown from seeds I took from a reaper (that was a good pheno), and there was no chance of any mixups, the only possible explanation is a cross but you wouldn’t see this type of variation unless it was F2 (in which case it would be unlikely F1 would’ve looked exactly like a good pheno reaper).
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u/placebosun101 Oct 27 '24
Variety packs? Actually there is this pack of shishito peppers at a market near me where they say 1 in 10 are spicy and it's a game that you can play. They could do that with these 🤣🤣
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u/i_GoTtA_gOoD_bRaIn Oct 27 '24 edited Oct 27 '24
10 per 2.205 pounds? What denomination?
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u/Colonel_Collin_1990 Oct 27 '24
Love all the products that claim to be some super hot and then in the ingredients it's just cayenne or something far from what it claims to be. And 9 times outta 10 they aren't even remotely spicey.
This is another kind of stupidity. Look like red habaneros and a few ghosts to me. I'll bet alot of ppl fall for the gimmick too. Just for the novelty.
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u/Friendly-Ad6808 Oct 27 '24
Doesn’t matter. I’d still buy them out. Red savinas are some of the best.
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u/sickness1088 Oct 27 '24
They'll be hot enough your average Joe would give them a pass that's who they count on
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u/Kimmalah Oct 27 '24
I have grown reapers that look like this, they're kind of unstable and don't always look a certain expected way.
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u/poghosb Oct 27 '24
Nooo... Those are Ají Lemon Drop
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u/poghosb Oct 27 '24
Some people just don't understand what humor is. And they are downvoting me. Sad
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u/jlspartz Oct 27 '24
Looks like habs and a few unripe ghosts.