You know how it was with those "as seen on TV" stuff people were crazy to get their hands on?
Nowadays it is "As seen on YouTube"
That company basically got famous on youtube and that's it. Now there are thousands of hotsauceheads that have no clue on hot peppers
I'm guessing off-pheno pods of habaneros, many of my habs get short like the first picture.
It has the shape of a variety people call pumpkin habanero, but I know it as Pitanga pepper (not even near as hot as a habanero, though):
(picture from google)
I once thought so as well.
a real reaper seed (or super hot in general) should be as hot as the pepper itself. so putting them on top of your tongue is a way to check
Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who know absolutelly nothing about plants and they will buy it.
y'know, I've got a lot of great stuff from aliexpress, even some cherry tomato seeds that produced really great fruits. and also things that has nothing to do with plants or gardening
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I got the same "reaper" as you Hahahah. It is indeed an annuum
got my seeds from aliexpress (I knew it wasn't reapers even before planting)
The pepper has a good flavor though
mine has almost no heat at all. have you tasted yours?
when the pepper is ripe, there are more mature seeds. It will have mature seeds in green pods but only a fraction of the amount in a ripen pod
btw all my jalapeños were germinated from green pods
It's warming up here in the south, but it is still winter for us (LOL) and my pods are starting to set on some of my last year's plants I "overwintered" (aka left outside and didn't care at all)
BTW, temperature is in celsius degrees
I think most of us believe that the seed will or most likely will originate the pheno of the pod you collected it. I like to save seeds from the best looking pods