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chinense Congratulations Caroline Reaper: You are Main Stream

Seed catalogs starting to come in.  Baker Creek seeds is in that new class of catalogs.  Very professional catalog. Even if you do not think they are main stream, they are mighty close.  Might have happened earlier and I missed it, but this year they feature the Carolina Reaper and a few others on two pages dedicated to super hots and so called rare peppers.  They also had things like the original Trinidad Scorpion and if I remember right a yellow scorpion.  I figured it was coming with all the media around the hottest pepper in the world thing, but didnt expect it this soon.
 
On those two pages, probably under the Carolina Reaper is this little note.  Its the type of thing that most folk would overlook.  It warns that soil temperature needs to be 85 degrees or better for many of the rare peppers to germinate properly. Great place to put an advertisement for those heating pads that go under trays.
 
I remember my first time growing ghost peppers as very disappointing.  Back then, heating mats were very expensive.  The next year, I used a 100 watt bulb under the tray and thought I had become an expert.
 
So I am wondering.  Obviously the big boys think there is expanded interest in super hots and rare peppers, but will their inclusion in main stream catalogs expand or retard interest? 
 
 
 
Voodoo 6 said:
If you like chainsaws, you talk to a lumberjack... if you want to talk peppers you are in the right spot.
 
Baker Creek??? isn't that the one guy...
 

Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds - https://www.rareseeds.com/
 
But ye, somewhere in the back of my mind I seem to remember a Bakers Creek that specialized in peppers.  This is going to bug me until I figure it out or someone tells me.
 
Voodoo 6 said:
If you like chainsaws, you talk to a lumberjack... if you want to talk peppers you are in the right spot.
 
Baker Creek??? isn't that the one guy...
 
 
AJ Drew said:
 
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds - https://www.rareseeds.com/
 
But ye, somewhere in the back of my mind I seem to remember a Bakers Creek that specialized in peppers.  This is going to bug me until I figure it out or someone tells me.
Baker Creek (Rareseeds.com) is not the same as Bakerspeppers
 
 
 
Baker Creek (rareseeds.com) :  https://www.bbb.org/southwestern-missouri/business-reviews/lawn-and-garden-equipment-and-supplies/baker-creek-heirloom-seed-co-in-mansfield-mo-19833
  5 out of 5 stars 
 
 
BakersPeppers :  https://www.bbb.org/west-florida/business-reviews/condiments-and-sauces/bakers-peppers-in-land-o-lakes-fl-90215775
1.25 out of 5 stars 
 
I have personally ordered from rareseeds.com and i can only say that they shipped quickly and accurately and included some bonus tomato seeds (black Vernissage)
this will be my first year growing out seeds from them. 
 
I have not, and will not, order from BakersPeppers.
 
Guatemalan Insanity Pepper said:
 
 
I have personally ordered from rareseeds.com and i can only say that they shipped quickly and accurately and included some bonus tomato seeds (black Vernissage)
this will be my first year growing out seeds from them. 
 
I have not, and will not, order from BakersPeppers.
 
The Black Vernissage were a decent tomato for me last year.  Gotta love free.  Not an essential, but you get nice black tomato taste early in the season, so it's okay.
 
Yes, Baker Creek is somewhat mainstream, at least as far as the homesteading, organic seed-thing goes (like Johnny's or Fedco up here in Maine), but they are a quality company.  
 
Yeah, they didn't carry the Reaper last year, so this is a first in the catalog, but they had mustard scorpions, chocolate ghost peppers, and red 7-Pots last year, so I wouldn't say that being in the catalog means "main stream."  Baker's Creek likes to throw in a few oddball or eccentric varieties of everything they carry.  They dropped the 7 Pot and replaced it with the Reaper, it would seem.  Could be any number of reasons for the switch.  
 
I grew the 7 Pot Barrackpore they carried, and I had no complaints.   :fireball:
 
Jase4224 said:
Reapers can be found in Coles supermarkets in Oz during the later months of summer.. thats pretty mainstream
 
I think I red that they were in that main stream UK super market for a bit too: Telsco?
 
 
imo been mainstream awhile. I know "people on the street" that know what reapers are because of the viral content of a lot of challenges etc. Like a mainstream song, the "test" is not if in big box stores, but, but if the general public and your mom knows it. :)
 
The Hot Pepper said:
imo been mainstream awhile. I know "people on the street" that know what reapers are because of the viral content of a lot of challenges etc. Like a mainstream song, the "test" is not if in big box stores, but, but if the general public and your mom knows it. :)
I agree and can say that in south west Oz it seems that most people that I have spoken to about hot food have heard of it, I work in a pub and Im always talking to the general public/people I dont know.
 
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