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This is the lone reaper my plant gave me, can't just post the wins, right?... the plant is flowering again, so fingers crossed. Aside from being small, it was packed with intense heat.

This is the lone reaper my plant gave me, can't just post the wins, right?... the plant is flowering again, so fingers crossed. Aside from being small, it was packed with intense heat.

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[–] • 3 pts

Every time anyone posts a pic in this sub that I see, my mouth starts watering. That looks delicious! Let us know what you do with the little baby.

[–] • 1 pt

This was the first reaper, I ate it to get a flavor and heat profile, that'll help me decide what to do with the others.

[–] • 2 pts

Do they actually HAVE a flavor? Every time I've tried something with it included in the dish, the heat overpowers any flavor that might be discernible

[–] • 3 pts

The reds I grow are always very fruity and sweet. That said, I grow three types of reaper - reds, yellows, and chocolates. The yellows are a bit citrusy with floral notes. Chocolates are earthy - sometimes floral and bitter, other times smoky and sweet.

If I get my peppers from anywhere else, they're usually very floral, or bitter, both, or no flavor.

[–] • 2 pts

I envy yall. I can never get any notes over the heat.

[–] • 3 pts (edited )

Interestingly, the particular smell and taste of a superhot comes form the oil - capsicum chinense.. I'm not a huge fan of it which is why I toast, roast, smoke, pickle, and ferment my superhots, so I can enjoy the heat without that weird flavor (it overpowers everything). If we could take the heat from a reaper and put it in a lemon drop pepper (yellow jalepeno) that would be tits

Correction: I was reminded shortly after this comment of a pepper I grew a couple years ago - Biquinho. A very fruity pepper with little heat, but it came with that floral chinense 'flavor'. So, not just superhots have it.

[–] • 2 pts

That's exactly why I don't eat any of those super-hot peppers. There's no flavor. The "hottest" that I use in my chili is habanero. I grow them myself and freeze them for use in my winter chili. Good flavor and excellent heat.

[–] • 1 pt

Same, that's about as hot as I will typically go. GREAT flavor for salsa, especially when fire roasted. Kudos my man

[–] • 1 pt

You get the flavor initially, then the heat takes over. This one had a floral profile, then a good punch with pain.

[–] • 1 pt

It's a viable fruit.. that's a win!

My reapers are flowering like mad, but that's normal for me. Seems like reapers are the only pepper I can grow well and in abundance anymore, hahaha

[–] • 1 pt

A small win, yes. It did not disappoint with the punch either.

I have a lot of flowers on my other plants but they keep falling off, I can't quite put my finger on the why...I water every other day unless it's a hot day and they're drooping. I might have to buy some from you if this keeps going.

[–] • 1 pt

Not sure where you're at, but dropping flowers could be from being too hot. That's said, leaf droop could be caused from overwatering. Do you check your soil before watering?

[–] • 1 pt

I'm in Texas, it's been hot, not so much the last couple of days we've had rain. I check 2-3 inches below the surface before I water.