Nice thing in FL, you can grow fresh veggies and fruit in the winter, summers a bit hot, plants struggle.

Carolina Reaper is really popping.



Tomato Plant has nice Fruit....

You're lucky; our tuxedo cat had a light salad consisting of jalafuego plant.

Red peppers are my fave. Lotsa vitamin C.

Are you sure that is a Carolina Reaper plant?

Any chance you can show a closer view of the fruit itself?

Its just that from the picture, from what details I can make out of the fruit, they look too smooth and meaty to be reapers (reapers are mean looking SOBs).

if you are far enough south in Florida you should be able to grow peppers as a bushy perennial

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Originally posted by cyanide357:
Are you sure that is a Carolina Reaper plant?

Any chance you can show a closer view of the fruit itself?

Its just that from the picture, from what details I can make out of the fruit, they look too smooth and meaty to be reapers (reapers are mean looking SOBs).

Yep. It’s year 2 for the plant. Last year they were half the size, cut it back fertilized it and it came right back. They are a bit larger this crop

Ok.

Is the fruit actually smooth like they appear in the picture?

I'm just expecting the fruit to look like these:

Nice!

I'm hoping my tomatoes survived 2 nights in a row of freezing (26.9 and 27.9). Anything after Dec 8th is borrowed time in N. Houston.

In November, we had a freeze too (high 20s) which was a month earlier and my tomatoes all survived. All of the fruit ripened and I only had to trim off a couple leaves that died and turned black.

I'm jealous, the only thing that is growing in my garden at the moment is Garlic. Next year I'll put a greenhouse in and maybe winter will be an option.

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It's a healthy looking plant, but that fruit looks like a normal red habanero / scotch bonnet type chili (or some other Caribbean / 'ghost' type hybrid).

At best I'd say it is a reaper hybrid and not a pure strain Carolina Reaper.

I grew reapers this past season - grew them from seeds from the original grower who created the strain.