Ingestion of a Pepper X chili causes intense abdominal cramps. The extensive curves and ridges of a Pepper X chili create more surface area for the plant placenta and locules to grow and retain capsaicin, adding to the intensity of heat experienced when a Pepper X is eaten. Pepper X resulted from several cross breedings that produced an exceptionally high content of capsaicin in the locules – the plant tissue holding the seeds. The Pepper X breeder, Ed Currie, produced 100 hybrid crosses per year with the intent that one or two would succeed for the 10-year development cycle. The exceptional pungency of the chili was developed over 10 years of cultivation for desired traits to emerge through selective plant breeding, and 10 or more generations for the hybrid chilis to stabilize with the desired intense pungency. In 2023, Guinness World Records recognized it as The World's Hottest Pepper. Pepper X is a cultivar of Capsicum chili pepper bred by Ed Currie, creator of the Carolina Reaper. Coir might be a different story, I will find out this year.Cultivar of Capsicum chili pepper Pepper X Try growing these in a 3 gallon pot with normal soil and I doubt you'd get more than a handful of pods. I'm sure I would have had a lot more fruit. That 20 gallon tub would have been better suited to one of those plants instead of two. My experiences were also very similar when growing habaneros about 10-12 years back - they are slow and they really take their time getting ready. It's not a crapshoot, imo, it's a patience game. It was about middle of October when I finally pulled all the pods and even then set them to ripen for a week or so in a basket near the window. Wasn't until the tub had been in the house without water and only indirect light for a month before they finally flipped to orange and then red. It didn't actually start fruiting real heavy until late August and then pods grew to full size but just stayed green forever. The reaper was funny because it grew a few early pods and then no activity for a solid month. I didn't count but I do pretty much remember that we pulled about 50 ripe pods off the reaper and about 80 or so off the scotch bonnet. I bet by the 29th of May, they will be pretty near to the size of those I bought last year. I started my seeds on 27th of March and they are under lights now. I am growing seeds produced by both of those now, so it will definitely be a cross since they are both chinense and grew right next to each other with the bees pollinating them. The reaper is certainly way hotter than anything I've tried before, definitely need to use it in moderation. I had to withhold water for over a month to get them to actually ripen. It and the bonnet produced tons of pods and I had to bring the tub inside during mid-September to finish ripening. 66 days later on August 4th, I pulled 5 ripe pods off the reaper. These plants grew to a massive size real fast, I was constantly trimming them so that air could circulate. The bigger one is a reaper and the smaller one a chocolate scotch bonnet - growing inside a 20 gallon tub with regular bagged garden soil amended with chickenshit and blood meal. I took this photo on 29th of May last year when I had just bought these from a garden store.
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