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Originally Posted by pontiacpetey
I have about 50 butch t Trinidad scorpion crossed with the moruga scorpion pepper plants about 4 inches tall, I started the seeds from ones I saved from last year.
Also i just planted 50 of the Carolina reaper seeds. The “Butch T” measures a whopping 1,463,700 Scoville heat units. Now that's HOT!!@!%!
The reaper are supposed to average a 1,569,300 on the Scoville scale with peak levels of over 2,200,000 Scoville Heat Units (SHU). Mostly I gave a lot of the peppers away to people who like to eat them and saved a few for myself to make pepper flakes.
I ate a quarter of a butch t and thought I would die lol. I did enjoy the burn after the initial heat.
Any other pepper heads out there?? Anyone local who would like a few plants let me know.
Any growing tips to increase the heat??
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To increase the heat of the chiles, you need to stress the plants. Once the peppers are ripening, let the plants dry out until they are drooping a bit, then water the hell out of them. Repeated cycles of this stress the plant and make the peppers hotter. That's why peppers grown in the southwest are the hottest.
not jumping, that's fire shooting outta my arse.....