chinense Bakers Peppers Chocolate Carolina reaper

[Aaron Sm]

Bakers Peppers is selling seeds for a chocolate Carolina reaper. They look awesome. Has anyone heard of this variety yet?

 

[compmodder26]

Bakers Peppers is selling seeds for a chocolate Carolina reaper. They look awesome. Has anyone heard of this variety yet?

 
There's a whole big discussion going on right here: http://thehotpepper.com/topic/47248-the-chocolate-reaper/
 
You can consider the seeds as an F1 generation, meaning that you aren't very likely to get the same pod shape/color/etc. as the mother plant.  And at $12 for 10 seeds, I would not be willing to take those chances.

 

[Hybrid Mode 01]

     At the risk of sounding like an idiot (territory that is all to familiar for me  ), isn't it possible for a pepper variety, via mutation, to occasionally throw out some seeds that will grow into plants that produce differently colored pods? And since the variation in pod color arose via mutation, and not because of cross pollination, wouldn't the new phenotype be conserved in subsequent inbred generations?
     I wouldn't go as far as to say that's what happened in this case. The shape of Dale's chocolate reapers sure doesn't resemble the reapers I grew last year - and would be extremely surprised if simultaneous mutations occurred that changed both pod color and shape. (The chances for that have got to be astronomical…) I'm just questioning the need to grow out eight generations of a plant to stabilize it in the case of mutation.

 

[millworkman]

Locking this.  There is already a thread talking about it.