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chinense Yellow Carolina Reaper

Nigel

Nigel

Ok, I cannot vouch for what these are, but I enjoyed growing them and they look great.
I got the seeds labelled as Yellow Reaper from someone in Italy last Christmas. Plants were very robust, but not very productive, which is what I see with Reapers whenever I grow them. Chris Phillips grew out plants from the same seed stock and we got similar pods and plants. He also grew Yellow Primos to compare. When Chris gave me a photo of 12 pods with no labels, 6 of these and 6 Yellow Primos, I picked them 100% in under a minute, so I clearly can tell them apart.
 
They look orange in the photo, but the bottom left small pods are true orange, so you can see the difference.
 

 
 
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I'm always amazed at your ability to stay calm and collected while getting your shit rocked. To be able to articulate what your experiencing while going through such pain is a true gift. Doesn't sound like the yellow is near as tasty as the red unfortunately. 
 
Probably one the few peppers you have reviewed that didn't make me immediately want to find the seeds. Which is probably a good thing with my ever expanding grow lists.
 
appearance wise it's an attractive pepper though. 
 
D3monic said:
I'm always amazed at your ability to stay calm and collected while getting your shit rocked. To be able to articulate what your experiencing while going through such pain is a true gift. Doesn't sound like the yellow is near as tasty as the red unfortunately. 
 
Probably one the few peppers you have reviewed that didn't make me immediately want to find the seeds. Which is probably a good thing with my ever expanding grow lists.
 
appearance wise it's an attractive pepper though. 
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Thanks, very good of you to say! 
 
Although these look great, I`d prefer to eat Yellow 7-pots and I doubt I`ll grow these again. As you allude to, there are so many great varieties to grow it`s tough to grow many more than once and I grow 175-200 varieties every year.
 
One yellow I highly recommend trying is the Yellow Bubblegum 7-pot. 
 
I got some seeds in route as we speak, i'm growing the red, choc and yellow bg7 this year. Probably leaving the rest the 7pots off the list for this grow. Other than the cross I'm playing with.

Edit: oh yea I got 7pot peach germinating as well.
 
Idiot Piquant said:
So good to have you back, Nigel. 
Thank you for your contributions 
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So good of you to say, thanks!
mpicante said:
Great job Nigel.Happy New Year to You! Quick question ,how is your biclah coming along? Havent heard anything at all as of late on this creation.Hope i didnt butcher the name
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Great memory, Hahahahahahah. Chris Phillips renamed it the Bicouglah and it made me laugh, so kept it, LOL. For everyone, it`s Bhut Indian Carbon x Douglah.
 
I grew out F2 this year and couldn`t really tell it from the F1. Flavours and heat seemed very similar. I`m not sure I took photos, but I`ll have a look. I do have seeds for next year, so maybe I`ll grow out more than 5 plants, which is what I grew this year.
 
D3monic said:
I got some seeds in route as we speak, i'm growing the red, choc and yellow bg7 this year. Probably leaving the rest the 7pots off the list for this grow. Other than the cross I'm playing with.

Edit: oh yea I got 7pot peach germinating as well.
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I expect 2016 to be the year of the Bubblegum hybrid. There are literally dozens and dozens out there. I`ve seen White, Peach, Yellow, Orange, Red, Caramel and Chocolate, plus the Neyde hybrid I posted, which gives purple spots on red. All we need now is a blue one with pink spots and we`ll have the full set, LOL.
 
Idiot Piquant said:
So good to have you back, Nigel. 
Thank you for your contributions
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what he said... your reviews have been one of my most important databases when choosing what to grow. Thank you.
 
mikeg said:
what he said... your reviews have been one of my most important databases when choosing what to grow. Thank you.
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That`s awesome, thanks so much for the very kind words!
 
Nigel said:
I expect 2016 to be the year of the Bubblegum hybrid. There are literally dozens and dozens out there. I`ve seen White, Peach, Yellow, Orange, Red, Caramel and Chocolate, plus the Neyde hybrid I posted, which gives purple spots on red. All we need now is a blue one with pink spots and we`ll have the full set, LOL.
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I tried a few that didn't take, There's one possibility with 7pot Burgundy. It's either BG7 or CGN-21500 I crossed it with. I did the cross, tagged it and forgot to write down what pollen I hit it with, by the time I realized 30 mins later I couldn't remember who the father was. 
 
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lol I'm always amazed too.  I don't know how he does it.  I would be jumping around making noise at the very least.  Grabbing my ice cream lol.  Well done Nigel.
 
D3monic said:
I'm always amazed at your ability to stay calm and collected while getting your shit rocked. To be able to articulate what your experiencing while going through such pain is a true gift. Doesn't sound like the yellow is near as tasty as the red unfortunately. 
 
Probably one the few peppers you have reviewed that didn't make me immediately want to find the seeds. Which is probably a good thing with my ever expanding grow lists.
 
appearance wise it's an attractive pepper though. 
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Great review mate, good to have you back at THP. Your reviews are the best out there, and your wealth of knowledge and input here is invaluable. 
 
I'm looking forward to more of your posts in 2016, all the best for the new year. 
 
 
SR.
 
Amazing review as always. Your statement "It's a very painful pod" pretty much says it all. I'm still getting spanked by chocolate habs and ghost peppers so I don't think growing this strain is on my near horizon.
 
Way to ring in the New Year but I'll stick with the kinda fireworks that burn up in the sky this year :flamethrower: :fire:
 
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