I agree with the theory that any given pepper can be hotter than any other at any given time.
It depends on growing conditions etc.
Also most if not all the super hot strains or varieties these days haven't been grown out in isolation long enough to even been declared a new strain or variety.
These days anything that rates high in heat gets tested and declared a new worlds hottest even if it is unstable and it's seeds do not grow the same plant.
A lot of seed vendors want their seed variety to sell for high prices and most could care less if the plant is 1 of a kind or if the seeds grow true.
Pod.Sauce and seed sales are what matters to too many people these days.
If their seeds , pods or sauce sales rake in the bucks that's all that matters.
Check out the auctions on this site alone,lots of $ for a few seeds or pods is being spent by bidders.
$120 in a failed raffle for maybe a pound or so max. of pods...
A fool and their $ will soon be parted...
$.50 a seed + isn't uncommon plus high shipping rates added on...
A lot of stuff isn't stable,Isolating a hybrid means nothing.
Pods from the parent plant might look cool but if the original seed stock was a hybrid it might not grow true for better or worse.
It's a crap shoot.
Most of the supposed isolated seeds I grew last season didn't grow true from trades or vendors.
Yellow 7 pots and scorpions that start out yellow but turn red,Yellow and chocolate bhuts turned red,douglah etc all turned red after they were the desired color,Big Bang Naga seeds are growing scorpion looking pods right now.
Heat is the same in general for most of the stuff above.
Out of several plants from the same seed stock only 1 might be as hot as expected/advertised.
So far the hottest pod I've had was from a naga,Darlow Chileman strain and an unknown strain of Douglah.
Haven't grown seeds out from either to see what I get.Next season I might grow them to see.
The nagas were pretty hot...Don't know if the seeds will grow true.They were from dry pods,I gotta grow them out.
It depends on growing conditions etc.
Also most if not all the super hot strains or varieties these days haven't been grown out in isolation long enough to even been declared a new strain or variety.
These days anything that rates high in heat gets tested and declared a new worlds hottest even if it is unstable and it's seeds do not grow the same plant.
A lot of seed vendors want their seed variety to sell for high prices and most could care less if the plant is 1 of a kind or if the seeds grow true.
Pod.Sauce and seed sales are what matters to too many people these days.
If their seeds , pods or sauce sales rake in the bucks that's all that matters.
Check out the auctions on this site alone,lots of $ for a few seeds or pods is being spent by bidders.
$120 in a failed raffle for maybe a pound or so max. of pods...
A fool and their $ will soon be parted...
$.50 a seed + isn't uncommon plus high shipping rates added on...
A lot of stuff isn't stable,Isolating a hybrid means nothing.
Pods from the parent plant might look cool but if the original seed stock was a hybrid it might not grow true for better or worse.
It's a crap shoot.
Most of the supposed isolated seeds I grew last season didn't grow true from trades or vendors.
Yellow 7 pots and scorpions that start out yellow but turn red,Yellow and chocolate bhuts turned red,douglah etc all turned red after they were the desired color,Big Bang Naga seeds are growing scorpion looking pods right now.
Heat is the same in general for most of the stuff above.
Out of several plants from the same seed stock only 1 might be as hot as expected/advertised.
So far the hottest pod I've had was from a naga,Darlow Chileman strain and an unknown strain of Douglah.
Haven't grown seeds out from either to see what I get.Next season I might grow them to see.
The nagas were pretty hot...Don't know if the seeds will grow true.They were from dry pods,I gotta grow them out.
