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Carolina Reaper (HP22B) Community Grow

A few members including myself are growing seeds for this variety ASAP. I and a few others here on THP thought it would be fun to have a "community glog" strictly for this variety, a fun thread about the HP22B and growing this pepper for the first time.

I think we should start a community glog like this anytime there is a new pepper with alot of attention and alot of people growing it, possible world record holder or not. It would be fun, and this should be fun! That's why we all love this hobby is it not?

Therefore, this will be a drama-free, controversy-free, fun glog for all of us growers and others to enjoy. If you grow, please chime in. If you're growing this variety, please post pictures and chime in about your observations.

Again.. This thread is ment to be fun and informative, but mostly fun :)
Please. Pretty please with sugar on top.. lol. Keep it drama-free.
I, and many others would really appreciate this thread to stay that way.

Now lets get to growing!

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I went with the paper towel method for this guy just like I have with all my mid-season starts. It is far from my favorite way to germinate seeds but I'm in no hurry this time of year which is why I went this route. I've had the seeds in the paper towel for about a week now on top of my HOT5 lighting closet. The seeds should be showing root tips soon, then they will be visiting some real soil :D

How's it going for everyone else?

Brandon
 
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Germination rates are all over the place. I've had 7-9 days on all of mine but some people have had a month or more with nothing. I must have gotten one of the lucky packets.
 
I had one that germinated in 15 days and another in 20, but they got baked in the greenhouse due to a thermostat error, in that process another one popped up. I've only had 3 of the 5 I planted sprout.
 
Little bored at work today and started noticing a lot more buds and a few more flowers on my bigger plant, must be over 70 buds already.

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The rest of the plant is forming buds like this.

More flowers, I used a electronic toothbrush to pollinate which worked this time.
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Plants turned 2 months old this week. Still no pods, but a lot of new flowers and buds.

Here is the one in dwc.
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This one just split and started to bud.
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Here is the smaller of the 2 in coco just over 20"
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First flower on this plant.
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Here is the larger of the 2 in coco, over 2'.
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Couple top down shots of the bigger plant with lots of new flowers.
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armac said:
You are going to be the first pod producer besides the originator. Your plants are beautiful, having the facility of a hydro shop really helps out.
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Thanks! The shop helps out a lot, but honestly all my super hots have been really easy to grow they seem to love just the base nutrients. I only saw a little cal mag deficiency early on when I wasn't feeding full strength.

StupidJerk said:
Amazing. Have they produced pollen yet? I'm very interested in seeing these pods.
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Thanks! A few have released pollen and I had a couple flowers that have dropped and not made pods yet. I'm gonna try to reduce the light down to 16hrs from 18hrs to see if the plants like the couple extra hrs of darkness.
 
OK, here is a picture update from me on my first batch of seeds. Out of 20 seeds I had about 10-12 germinate (plus/minus), but most of the seeds caps never fell off. I tried to help them along, but i did more harm than good. I started germinating the seeds on August 30 and they took about 15-20 days to germinated. I had use the jiffy pots (What I had laying around at the time), and started off growing slow. Once they had germinated I put them in there Air-Pots, using recycled soil. Was tight on cash at the time when I started.

Here they are on Sept 24, 2012

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Here they are on Oct 19, 2012. They are the 3 in the front, and the 2 in the back right hand side. THe other 3 are from the 2nd batch, will update in a different thread in the next day or two.

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At this point in time, realzing they seems to be growing very slowly, and seem to be struggling in the recycled soil I headed to my local hydro store and put me a 1 cu bag of promix for 10 bucks to transplant them in and see if they will help better. I also started adding a 1/4 teaspoon each of the Roots Organics Uprising Foundation and the Roots Organics Uprising Grow. Both of these are a slow release organic fertlizer. I also have been feeding them with every watering 2/ml of Liquid Humus per gallon of water.

So that brings us to the pictures taken today, 11/11/2012.

Top View

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Side View

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Ask and you shall receive lol. Just took the pics a few minutes ago.

Here is the dwc, it's starting to produce buds and should have flowers soon.
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My butch t caught some type of black spot fungus, it spread to the smaller reaper plant. Those were the only 2 plants that got infected. I trimmed off all the infected leaves and have been treating them with safer fungicide spray, hopefully it will go away.

Here are pics of the trimmed plant.
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Still has new flowers starting.
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Saved the best for last. This guy still hasn't been able to produce a pod yet, but has too many flowers to count and I would say has a few hundred buds forming.
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Flowers which just want to fall off and not produce :(
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Couple of shots of new buds growing, the whole plant is full of new growth like this.
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15 plus buds in this cluster.
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One of the members here, that lives in the Rio grande Valley has a pod or two on his reaper, he says they look nothing like the ones you see on the internet. We should have expected that......

Been trying to get him to post his pictures.
 
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