Question Okay...Have I been duped on Pepper Seeds here?

[HeyThere]

Alright folks, I am back in need of some help here. I feel I have been duped lol.

I purchased some seeds on Amazon that claim to be Carolina Reaper Pepper seeds but....they don't seem to be Carolina Reaper peppers? They look more like Ceyenne peppers that have not turned colors yet.

Anyone have any experience with these? Check the photos out, I am dying to find out if I purchased seeds and got something else. It's the first seed out of the pack!

See attached. Thank you!

 

[Berkeloid]

They're definitely not Carolina Reapers, I've grown those before from supermarket seeds and they are much shorter and rounder/odd shaped like the full-size ones even when they are small.

I'm no expert but yours look a bit thin to be Cayenne, and a bit long to be Bird's Eye. So not entirely sure what variety you have. You'll probably have to wait until you get some ripe ones to be sure.

However if you want to go back to the seller to see if you can get a refund or replacement seeds (maybe they sent the wrong type by mistake) the photos you have are evidence enough that it's not a Reaper.

 

[Mandy Onderwater]

They do not like carolina reapers to me

Do you have other plants nearby that could cross-pollinate? Though I do wonder if the seeds were true to type to begin with...

 

[daveb]

They look more like the ornamental peppers they grow upright long slender and turn vivid yellows or reds as they ripen , they are part of a chili family so no those are not carolina reapers. also be warned the carolina reapers a suggestion dont handle the bare handed for extensive amount of time and wear rubber disposable gloves when cutting or chopping for use in cooking i would even suggest it when picking them had a friend hand a couple of mine one time their hand was raw feeling and swollen hours later they were that sensitive to the Capsaicin level
the reaper

 

[Bushboy]

I had a friend who grew a single chili plant from chilli seeds he got from chillies be bought at Woolworths. We called it the magic chilli plant because it just grew for years and constantly flowered and produced huge yields. He gave me some seeds from those exact same chillis and they ended up growing 3 different distinctive types of chillies.

 

[daveb]

I had a friend who grew a single chili plant from chilli seeds he got from chillies be bought at Woolworths. We called it the magic chilli plant because it just grew for years and constantly flowered and produced huge yields. He gave me some seeds from those exact same chillis and they ended up growing 3 different distinctive types of chillies.

it can happen a plant falls back to a parent plant specially store bought vegetables because many vegetables sold are a one time cross breed hybrid that the seeds and seeds from the cross are not stable.
I highly doubt this with the carolina reaper because the types it originated from although the reaper does grow in some case of eary stage upright like the ornimental it is a fatter larger pepper plus the reaper falls back to two very old pepper strains Pakistani Naga Viper pepper and the La Soufriere peppe (a rare habanero) it is doubtful this slender skinnny type pepper was part of the parentage of those and the reaper was hybrid and stabilized over 7 generation before the final pepper as we know it now. 4 other species were also used in the original hybrization process as he developed the reaper until he settled on the finale stable crosses -Habanero (Caribbean, Mexico, Central America) -Bhut Jolokia/Naga Chili (North-east India) - Scotch Bonnet (Jamaica) - Fatalii (South Africa)
so still duped in the source the seller used for seeds they repacked or offered for sale or knowingly dumping seeds with know issue. so who knows

 

[Bushboy]

it can happen a plant falls back to a parent plant specially store bought vegetables because many vegetables sold are a one time cross breed hybrid that the seeds and seeds from the cross are not stable.
I highly doubt this with the carolina reaper because the types it originated from although the reaper does grow in some case of eary stage upright like the ornimental it is a fatter larger pepper plus the reaper falls back to two very old pepper strains Pakistani Naga Viper pepper and the La Soufriere peppe (a rare habanero) it is doubtful this slender skinnny type pepper was part of the parentage of those and the reaper was hybrid and stabilized over 7 generation before the final pepper as we know it now. 4 other species were also used in the original hybrization process as he developed the reaper until he settled on the finale stable crosses -Habanero (Caribbean, Mexico, Central America) -Bhut Jolokia/Naga Chili (North-east India) - Scotch Bonnet (Jamaica) - Fatalii (South Africa)
so still duped in the source the seller used for seeds they repacked or offered for sale or knowingly dumping seeds with know issue. so who knows

Wow, you know a lot about peppers.

 

[daveb]

Wow, you know a lot about peppers.

i love my hot peppers and ive been a test grower for a few seed companies in the past for various tomatoes and pepper crosses to test seeds and viability, biggest key to remember most of the vegetables you see on store shelfs are a one shot cross and even they can vary but they know is they take plant A us its pollen to polinate Plant B they will get C that carries a certain trait that could be faster growing or larger fruit or both or a resistace to certain fungi or desease but the plant wont reproduce that seed as a viable seed consistently and in some cases they may not even produce a seed that will grow so each year the stamen of plant A and and polinate B to get next years seeds so some seeds farners use are a one shot use they are a little more costly but the yield to end results offset the cost thats why regrowning frm stores is basically a crap shoot of the dice

 

[Mandy Onderwater]

@Bushboy daveb knows a lot on just about anything! You need anything, this madman (or genius ) knows everything. I often look to him for knowledge too. It's amazing what he knows!