Want documentation? Guinness gives it to you, no? I have fresh Moruga and Butch Ts(my own) ATM, soon I will be a walking talking document. Since only 3 Reaper seeds popped and they are many months away that comparison will have to wait....
-
If you need help identifying a pepper, disease, or plant issue, please post in Identification.
chinense carolina reaper almost 2 months later
- Thread starter biscgolf
- Start date
Sometimes the only solution is to find a new problem.
Ed Currie
Which could, in essence, leave you with two problems.
The best solution to any problem, be it complex or simple, is a competent, complete, and correct answer.
People who complain about the way the ball bounces usually dropped it.
You ever try to run down one of those bouncy balls out of those quarter machines, PITA
Well, if I wanted some lip from you I'd rattle my zipper.
........ 
Beat that dead horse brother. There is a thread that has 25 pages that you can cry about papers and stuff on.
well someone's been to Staples.
I guess I don't quite get the vitriol that some have for this particular topic. Haven't there been several other allegedly "hottest pepper in the world" recently? I seem to recall 2 this year.
Hell, that dude Jamie in Wiamea Bay who cries like a little girl in the video owns the domain "thehottestpepper.com" - the Bhut Jolokia isn't the hottest in the world still right? I just googled it & see that the Huffington Post says it's the Moruga Scorpion. Why aren't the folks here who seem so outraged about the Reaper starting topics outraged about Jamie's website / domain name being false advertizing? That seems like an even more blatant ethical violation since his entire company is set up on a domain that's apparently a blatant falsehood. (personally it doesn't bother me - I'm sure he grows very hot peppers, despite the exaggerated reaction in the video)
Which brings up another point - once you get to a certain X-million scovies does it even matter, other than marketing purposes anyway? Demanding documentation for a claim like that seems like a waste of time and energy. I get that a hobbiest wants to grow "the hottest pepper" as part of the epic pissing contest that all hobbiests of all hobbies have (model plane folks want the fastest/biggest/best plane, pumpkin growers want the biggest pumpkins, shrunken head collectors the shrunkenest head, etc) - but if a grower ends up growing the 2nd hottest pepper by (gasp!) 2%, is that really worth getting up in arms about?
I don't get it. Life's way too short. Once you get to a certain number of scoville units it's not like you can taste the difference.
My $.02
well someone's been to Staples.
I guess I don't quite get the vitriol that some have for this particular topic. Haven't there been several other allegedly "hottest pepper in the world" recently? I seem to recall 2 this year.
Hell, that dude Jamie in Wiamea Bay who cries like a little girl in the video owns the domain "thehottestpepper.com" - the Bhut Jolokia isn't the hottest in the world still right? I just googled it & see that the Huffington Post says it's the Moruga Scorpion. Why aren't the folks here who seem so outraged about the Reaper starting topics outraged about Jamie's website / domain name being false advertizing? That seems like an even more blatant ethical violation since his entire company is set up on a domain that's apparently a blatant falsehood. (personally it doesn't bother me - I'm sure he grows very hot peppers, despite the exaggerated reaction in the video)
Which brings up another point - once you get to a certain X-million scovies does it even matter, other than marketing purposes anyway? Demanding documentation for a claim like that seems like a waste of time and energy. I get that a hobbiest wants to grow "the hottest pepper" as part of the epic pissing contest that all hobbiests of all hobbies have (model plane folks want the fastest/biggest/best plane, pumpkin growers want the biggest pumpkins, shrunken head collectors the shrunkenest head, etc) - but if a grower ends up growing the 2nd hottest pepper by (gasp!) 2%, is that really worth getting up in arms about?
I don't get it. Life's way too short. Once you get to a certain number of scoville units it's not like you can taste the difference.
My $.02
I've seen this a couple of times here related to this particular topic. I chalk it up to a backlash related to the heavy duty marketing campaign rather than anything to do with the pepper itself. In the end I don't particularly care because I agree that once you get to a million on the scoville scale you are in the freaking hot range regardless, and some people may want to grow one type over another or prefer the taste of one over the other.
The irony is that starting topics like this will feed the Google machine, elevating the Carolina Reaper / hottest pepper in search results, and likely driving additional views to the main source or sources of this pepper, likely increasing sales.
Uh, oops?
Uh, oops?