![]() ![]() We cannot ship live plants to Texas and New Jersey due to the Department of Agriculture forbidding invasive species to come into their state by mail. If you would like your plants to be shipped on a certain day, please indicate that in your order notes upon checkout. Shipping Note: Live plant orders will be shipped within 2 weeks after ordering, weather permitting. These Carolina Reaper Pepper Seedlings were carefully grown from seed in our greenhouse and are guaranteed to arrive alive and healthy. The best part about dehydrating peppers is the ability to enjoy them year-round! This pepper is a great value because a little goes a long way a quarter pod will heat a full pot of chili or spaghetti sauce. You will never be bored with the world's hottest pepper as you will notice that each Reaper pepper has a unique taste, nutritional profile, pod shape, and plant growth. For a few seconds, you'll taste tones of sweet fruitiness and undertones of chocolate and cherries…but then the blinding heat kicks in. ![]() Talk about some reputation! Our Carolina Reaper plants produce peppers with average heat levels of 1,641,000 SHUs, BUT individual peppers have been known to reach up to 2,200,000 SHUs - double ouch! The Carolina Reaper plant is relatively easy to grow that produces beautiful red peppers with rough bumpy skins and long stingers. So if you grow in short season regions, faster growing peppers may be best, read below.In 2013, The Guinness Book of World Records declared the Carolina Reaper as the World’s Hottest Pepper. Wait for growth: the germination process can take up to six weeks, and the growth process of the plant almost 100 days. Some of the super hots take a lot longer to flower and fruit, such as the Carolina Reaper which takes 90 days until the start of harvest, or the Trinidad Scorpion peppers take even longer at 120 days, the Ghost Pepper takes 110 days, and the Aji Pepper takes 100 days, and the Orange Habanero takes about 90 days of growing before the pods start coming. Sow the seeds: Place the seeds about an inch deep in the soil and water lightly. ![]() Remember, some peppers take a lot longer to mature than many other vegetables. His plant is currently barely 6 inches tall and will not produce fruit this season. Both have dozens of flowers in various stages. One of them has about six decently-sized peppers, the other has four. If the entire bloom doesn't drop off but starts to shrivel, look for a tiny pod developing inside the spent blossom – it may be that you have peppers but they're just not big enough to see yet! If the temperatures are not too hot (over 90˚F) and if you're growing outdoors that allow for wind and bee pollination, your peppers are probably coming soon! Currently, I have two VERY healthy Carolina Reaper plants which are both in the fruiting stage. Your pepper plants may be flowering but it takes time for peppers to arrive. These steps can be performed in the morning throughout the flowering cycle to ensure proper fertilization. Now, with the same swab, move on to all the flowers by getting more pollen on the swab and putting it on the stigmas. Moving the pollen from the anthers to stigma accomplishes fertilization. My best advice is to start your seeds now, they are the slowest growing plant Ive ever had and they just barely started producing before it got too cold to keep them outside. Im interested in what they will do this year when its warm enough to put them back outside. Touch the pollen on the anthers with a cotton swab or the tip of your finger and get it covered in pollen. Rub the swab onto the stigma that is sticking out above the anthers. Ive got 3 plants now and that was about the average for them. Water in well, and move the pot to a sunny, sheltered spot for up to a week. I like to use fresh, well-draining potting soil to fill around the root ball. Place in a clean pot that’s a bit larger than the size of the root ball. For best results and the fastest growth, use a grow light on seedlings indoors. Gently lift the plant out of the ground and shake it lightly to dislodge any loose soil. No, a sunny window is not ideal for young pepper plants. Young plants are the most susceptible to poor growth if given too little light. Bees are professional pollinators and so this second method is more reliable. Pruning out flowers at regular heights not only encourages controlled growth but helps keep your plant from putting all its energy into pepper production at. Peppers come from a warm climate with lots of sunshine.
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