Greetings! I just found the forum. Very nice.
I've grown some Habañero beginning in 1993 and have run them as perennials. I had one large pot that made it 4 years until I forgot to turn on the heat lamp on the wrong night.
Last year I found me some tiny Carolina Reaper babies and some kind of Scorpion that was a little larger. The reapers did nothing last year but grow to 5" tall. I kept them inside for the winter and now they're doing very well. I have two plants bearing pods.
I also got the Scorpion through the winter. It has been growing like the weeds. Now it's a monster plant over 6' tall in a large tree pot (15 gallon ?). I got a few Scorpion pods last year so I started three more babies for this year from seeds. They're flowering and making a few tiny peppers already.
My big mama Scorpion and one of the two Reapers have nice red peppers ready to pick but I'm leaving the first ones on the plants until they're falling off mature so I can get good seeds. The Scorpion seeds I got last year didn't do too well. I germinated 3 out of 52. Not an impressive success rate, I think.
My initial experience with these super hot peppers is they are ridiculously cantankerous but I look forward to the challenge.
I'll post some pictures in the ID forum. I'm rather certain about the ID of the HP22B Carolina Reaper but I'd like to dial in a little closer on the exact ID of the Scorpion.
I've grown some Habañero beginning in 1993 and have run them as perennials. I had one large pot that made it 4 years until I forgot to turn on the heat lamp on the wrong night.
Last year I found me some tiny Carolina Reaper babies and some kind of Scorpion that was a little larger. The reapers did nothing last year but grow to 5" tall. I kept them inside for the winter and now they're doing very well. I have two plants bearing pods.
I also got the Scorpion through the winter. It has been growing like the weeds. Now it's a monster plant over 6' tall in a large tree pot (15 gallon ?). I got a few Scorpion pods last year so I started three more babies for this year from seeds. They're flowering and making a few tiny peppers already.
My big mama Scorpion and one of the two Reapers have nice red peppers ready to pick but I'm leaving the first ones on the plants until they're falling off mature so I can get good seeds. The Scorpion seeds I got last year didn't do too well. I germinated 3 out of 52. Not an impressive success rate, I think.
My initial experience with these super hot peppers is they are ridiculously cantankerous but I look forward to the challenge.
I'll post some pictures in the ID forum. I'm rather certain about the ID of the HP22B Carolina Reaper but I'd like to dial in a little closer on the exact ID of the Scorpion.
to the THP forums from South Carolina! Nice to have you aboard! Sounds like things are going better this season for you; hope everything keeps growing well and gives your some nice harvests! Try and stay cool down in Alabama! 
