Very hot peppers

sniken · Oct 15, 2016

Anyone know what this is? I got these from a friend who thought she was growing paprika. I just bit into the tip on one so I can't say for sure how hot it is, but I'd say it's comparable to the tip of a reaper. I made a kick-ass hot sauce from 8 of these, 4 Carolina reapers and half a sweet pepper.

austin87 · Oct 15, 2016

I'd say they look like morugas. And yes those are hot!

Grass Snake · Oct 15, 2016

SavinaRed · Oct 15, 2016

Yes the cut open one looks like a moruga.

CAPCOM · Oct 15, 2016

Welcome. And yes to morugas.

moruga welder · Oct 15, 2016

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sniken · Oct 16, 2016

Thanks, now I can label my hot sauce properly.

I have a moruga growing myself, and the pods are bigger and less wrinkly than these. Different phenotypes I guess.

CAPCOM · Oct 16, 2016

sniken said:
Thanks, now I can label my hot sauce properly.

I have a moruga growing myself, and the pods are bigger and less wrinkly than these. Different phenotypes I guess.

The one you have sectioned is a typical moruga shape. I would call into question anything else.

sniken · Oct 17, 2016

CAPCOM said:
The one you have sectioned is a typical moruga shape. I would call into question anything else.

I got the seeds from Jim Duffy so my source should be good. The plant has some disease symptom, I'll make a separate post on that, but here are some pod pics:

willard3 · Oct 17, 2016

Growth habit looks like an annuum.

sniken · Oct 18, 2016

willard3 said:
Growth habit looks like an annuum.

You know, I might have mixed up the seeds or labels, I wasn't very organized when I started out with this. I thought annuums had smaller leaves though. You can see the leaves here: http://thehotpepper.com/index.php?/topic/62595-Yellowing-leaves-and-brown-spots