Ya I am interested to know if this is the hottest one (Carolina reaper) or if there are hotter because taking so long on this one to then reaease hotter seems odd
Ya I am interested to know if this is the hottest one (Carolina reaper) or if there are hotter because taking so long on this one to then reaease hotter seems odd
Seems to me that you are dodging the questions until the pepper has been released and sold. Your giving us none of the information asked above so why are we to believe you? It just seems fishy to me and a marketing ploy.
More money in releasing a new hottest pepper after you are sold out of Cal. Reaper.
Also, he said that he didn't wanna release the parents out of fear of copycats...really, c'mon Ed, it would take almost 10 generations to copy and at that point it will likely come out different and there will be a slew of new "hottest peppers" crowned. He claimed that the parents were Asian or sub Asian....I am not buying that. If there are two peppers that have been available for the past handful of years, that came out of Asia, that can produce a pod that looks identical to a 7 pot, I would love to see it.
Are you sure that Trinidad peppers are not Asian decent ? Has anyone beside me put out the money to find out. I have and continue to do genetics as well, many will be surprised when that data is released. I am trying to get a reliable source on a true primo to compare with our genetics, I should be able to have that in the pipeline this fall.
I saw a comment about testing from greenhouses. All of or statistical test are from field grown peppers in north and south carolina. We've aslo mimiced the soils everywhere but the southwest and northwest, growers came on board this year for testing in those soils. We have tested one offs from the green house, they are only to test progress and not included in testing data. I did not grow any of these originally to do anything like this, and I'm doing research with the others, when the data and stuff is done, they'll be released. Ted is my friend and I let hem taste those and other pods of mine because of his HONEST FEEDBACK, he is a man of integrity, a crazy on too. The evidence of our claim was released and published in May of 2011. We submitted to guiness, they wanted back up data, so we've decided to include the whole study on this pepper, down to the part numbers and calibration records on the HPLC we use. Dr Calloway and I are both confident everything will stand up to peer review and will suffice for Guinness. I am not putting down anyone else's claim, I know how hard it is and what it takes to get a field pepper over 2000000, it's quite a feat, but years of data and averages seem like better science to me. I hate to say it y'all, but I think this community wants one off wars for the drama.
Floridian here, one day I'll be back, until then the guy in the big white house chooses my home...
But thanks for the reply. I have no money invested into tracing the roots of chilis back to the old world. But all the research I have read has shown that peppers came from central/south America and the outlying islands, spread around the continent from birds, and cultivated and sold to merchant ships from Asia/Europe. Since then they spread throughout that portion of the world. I could be completely wrong, but a large body of research seems to support the claim.
My understanding is that chilies began in the new world and then spread to the rest of the world through sea trade then silk road type trade networks with Asiatic peoples. Then after generations reverse diasporasis began.