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chinense Can anyone hook me up with some carolina reapers?

Last year, I bought a plant from a nursery that was legit. The plant produced some gut busting chillies and I really need to get my hands on some seeds.
 
At the end of the harvest, my parents pulled all the pods and stuck them in the freezer. I've been trying to resurrect them, but no luck.
 
Can someone please help me out?
 
The seeds from the freezer should be viable if they come from a mature pod. Pepper seeds survive colder temps outside than in the freezer and still come up the next year.
 
Seeds that "dry" first and then are frozen have a much better chance of surviving than seeds that are placed in freezer in a fresh chili with moisture in it.  The moisture and the sudden freeze can cause cracking, once the shell of the seed cracks its no longer viable.  At least this is the explanation I read in an article about storing seeds, sorry dont remember link, just quoting what I read from memory.
 
Now this doesnt mean that every single seed in a frozen pod will crack, some will survive and be perfectly viable for growing.  You will have a much lower germination rate with seeds you collect from frozen chili's this way.  But it can be done! 
 
Even in nature a chili will dry on the bush, and then fall to ground the dried chili acts as kind of a buffer protecting the dried seed, etc. 
 
P.S. 
Sorry I dont have any Reaper seeds to share, planted the ones I did have.  Cheers
 
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