Pepper ID Help - (2)

armandwb · Jul 25, 2017

Hello,

I purchased (I thought) a Ghost pepper and a Carolina Reaper plant.

Both are producing - the Ghost pepper pods are yellow and not red like I am used to? Is this Ghost pepper?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bec97wi2xh9e7r2/GP.PNG?dl=0

Also, the other pod is yellow as well - is this a Carolina Reaper?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/89zdi10mu6wby27/CR.PNG?dl=0

Thank!

Gorizza · Jul 25, 2017

Those don't really look like ghosts, should be much longer

Reapers should ripen to red. There are yellow reaper varieties, but odd that they wouldn't be labelled as such.

Where did you buy these?

armandwb · Jul 25, 2017

Well the look like the red ghost I have grown the last few seasons (but died in a freeze. Same length and shape. The other on looks sorta like a reaper - not sure. Ebay plants.

armandwb · Jul 25, 2017

I looked up yellow ghost on Google and some look like it? ....Not sure

spicefreak · Jul 25, 2017

Ebay is a terrible place to buy seeds because you won't see pods before their feedback window is up.
Nearly all peppers look the same until their second pair of leaves, by which point you'll already be nearing the end of the allotted time and so there is next to no chance of punishment for mislabeling seeds, as a seller. Pepper fraud runs rampant there and on amazon.
In future, I would advise buying from more reputable sources.

What you have, however, are not the common Cayenne or Thai type. You've definitely got supers and are lucky to have done so but I'm not sure if that's a yellow Reaper or a yellow non-Moruga Scorpion.
The ones that're meant to be Ghosts look a little off, too, but the leftmost one certainly could be a Yellow Bhut. They're all super bumpy, though.

armandwb · Jul 25, 2017

Great, thanks!

beerbreath81 · Jul 25, 2017

Yellow Brain Strain?

TakashiLM · Jul 25, 2017

both pictures seems to be the same pepper variety but just a little different phenotype. My guess is yellow brain strain, just as said by beerbreath81

Hawaiianero · Jul 25, 2017

I'm agreeing with both BB81 and TakashiLM. Both pics look like yellow brainstrain. Whether or not the original plant got crossed with the brain is kinda moot because whatever they are you got beautiful pods.