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heat Ed Currie's newest hottest pepper

Mystere said:
Do the hotter Moruga peppers have an interesting story too?
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Not as interesting as partying with ButchT, his wife Miss Shirley and other long time chileheads! Of course I'm biased because we all met at Open Fields in IN, hosted by Jim Campbell in 2004.


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That's ButchT kneeling 2nd from right, I'm next  to him and Aji Queen (Beth Boyd/PepperMania) is last in the line
Standing 2nd from right is Love2Troll (JohnT), next to him is Fataliman then ScotchBonnetSteve
 
Any others here at THP in the pic that I've forgotten?
 
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Bicycle808 said:
 
I´m thinking it might be scenario #3: Smokin' Ed is blowing smoke. They don´t have hotter varieties on deck... It seems that the Reaper isn´t even really stable yet; if their current champ isn´t truly ready yet, then why would we believe they´ve got heavier pods in the stable?
 
 
I don´t think it would.  It seems obvious that there is more than a small amount of 7Pot in the Reaper´s DNA.  I suspect the biggest difference between the Reaper and the Primo is that the Primo is stable, and Troy doesn´t sue hobbyist growers for sharing plants on Facebook.
 
 
 
Look, i get the impression that, a few years back, it was fashionable to dump all over Ed Currie.... so, the pendulum has swung and not it is en vogue to preface any criticism of Ed with a ¨..i don´t know Ed Currie..." or ¨I have no problem with Ed Currie....¨  I get it, and to be honest, I´ve never met the man and I don´t have any personal beef with him, but let´s face it: he sucks.  Sure, few of us really know him, but what we do know about him is that he seems to be lying about the origins of his pepper, he produces douche-carnival videos where he continues to lie about his pepper and gloat about a secret stash of bigger/hotter peppers & he illustrates the SHU scale by going Bell>Jalapeño>Serrano>Red Hab>Ghost>Carolina Reaper, but conveniently keeps any of the close contenders (Moruga Scorp, Douglahs, ANY 7Pots, etc) out of the discussion entirely.  Plus, he speaks like Jack Barker from Silicon Valley and he clearly isn´t interested in hobby growers, as he threatens litigation on them as he struggles to trademark some questionable and unstable genetics.  So yeah, we don´t know him but, at this point, do we really want to get to know him?
 
There´s better superhot chiles out there.  And, better pepper personalities behind them.  This guy reads more as a fictional character than he does as a real person, which i´m basically fine with, but if i´m being honest, he´s like some kind of chile pepper version of a cliché supervillain.  I´m looking for more interesting stories than this one.
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Well said
 
Who cares if he's meaner than Hitler or nicer than Mother Teresa? So long as the peppers are good, what's the difference?
 
Then it's impressive that he can still be a quality grower in spite of mass murder taking up so much of his time.

Art can be appreciated separately from the artist. I didn't stop listening to Michael Jackson songs. Even if the allegations were true, the songs didn't do it. In this hypothetical, the peppers would be innocent and so would the buyers.
 
Mystere said:
Then it's impressive that he can still be a quality grower in spite of mass murder taking up so much of his time.
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Damn, the secret is out.  Yes, decaying human flesh grows the best plants.  I think that is a movie.

On the dozen or so versions of the reaper's lineage and all the quotes reportedly from Mr. Curry himself, for all I know each and every report could have been a misquote.  So now we have it in a video produced by Mr. Curry himself, in his own voice:

The Carolina Reaper was first achieved by crossing a Habanero with a Ghost Pepper.  A cross which happens to look, taste and rank right about the same as a cross between the Naga Morich and a Trinidad 7 Pot.
 
 
AJ Drew said:
On the dozen or so versions of the reaper's lineage and all the quotes reportedly from Mr. Curry himself, for all I know each and every report could have been a misquote.  So now we have it in a video produced by Mr. Curry himself, in his own voice:
The Carolina Reaper was first achieved by crossing a Habanero with a Ghost Pepper.  A cross which happens to look, taste and rank right about the same as a cross between the Naga Morich and a Trinidad 7 Pot.
 
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I think you mean "Habañero", good sir.
 
It's weird that such a mispronunciation would come from the mouth of such a seasoned grower so perhaps there's something to it that we're missing. Like how the Cayenne and Cheyenne are two different pronunciations of the same place name but totally different peppers.
 
Or maybe I'm just going all conspiracy theorist over nothing here.
 
DontPanic said:
 
I was gonna get cremated when I die, but now you're giving me another idea. :drooling:
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When the time comes, I may legitimately write this into my will.
 
 
spicefreak said:
 
I think you mean "Habañero", good sir.
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I think I am loosing my mind.  Didn't I spell it that way?  Or do you mean the squiggle thing over the n.  If so, ye my wife is all the time sending me those little hearts on facebook.  Damned if I know how to make them happen either.  But you did answer a question I have had for some time.  Why doesnt my spell checker know how to spell it.  
 
This is from September 2015. Is it safe to assume this is "pepper X" from the newest Ed video I posted at the beginning of this topic?

https://youtu.be/bJCtsmpSrWc
 
spicefreak said:
 
I think you mean "Habañero", good sir.
 
It's weird that such a mispronunciation would come from the mouth of such a seasoned grower 
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Nope. "Habanero" is correct. The name is derived from the city of Havana (Habana in Spanish). "Habañero" is an example of a hyperforeignism, and is not the correct spelling of the word in Spanish. AJ had it right.
 
Boris said:
This is from September 2015. Is it safe to assume this is "pepper X" from the newest Ed video I posted at the beginning of this topic?
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Back then wasn't it the "Death Strain"? 

 
 
BlackFatalii said:
Nope. "Habanero" is correct. The name is derived from the city of Havana (Habana in Spanish). "Habañero" is an example of a hyperforeignism, and is not the correct spelling of the word in Spanish. AJ had it right.
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I know the tilde isn't an accurate spelling. My point was that Ed pronounces the name of the pepper as though it were and that seems strange.
 
spicefreak said:
 
I know the tilde isn't an accurate spelling. My point was that Ed pronounces the name of the pepper as though it were and that seems strange.
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Ah, I misunderstood your post then. I thought your comment was directed at AJ's previous post. Sorry, my mistake.
 
Attention whores are always utterly miserable people.  Feeding his enormous ego is probably the one thing that keeps him from taking out his self-hate on his wife or just ending it all.
 
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