This years Habanero Plants

[mike s]

Well here it is in all it's glory.  The Carolina Reaper!  Newest hottest pepper in the world.  I'm a little disappointed as the plant looks healthy but so far has only produced two peppers.  I guess my stomach is thanking the plant lol!  I chopped a corner off of this one and divided it into pieces the size or a little bit bigger than a toothpick head.  As I was making the initial cut the whole kitchen smelled like pepper spray.  Tons of flavor packed into these 1 or 2 mm pieces.  Heat hits a bit later and in the back of your mouth...and you can feel them going down inside of you.  I cannot imagine eating bigger pieces than I cut ;). And would think if you were going to heat these up you better have a gas mask on.

Hope to get some more growing to send out to unsuspecting victims!

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[WadeFillingame]

I became personally intimate with the habañero one afternoon about 15 yrs ago.  I'd chopped them and eaten them diced with rice and beans, or with a little added here or there to foods and was pretty familiar with the heat. 

One afternoon I was roasting Anaheims.  Pull them off the grill, peal, stuff them with cheese pop in a tortilla and eat.  Decided to add fire roasted habeñeros to mine.  Did it with two.  Roasting the unleashes them, the heat was intense, and it felt like I had swallowed a hot coal. 

[Cohim]

If you chomped down on that pepper above, that is what your rosebud will look like.  :smiley-cool:

[mike s]

Well, been eating small pieces of the Reaper all weekend.  Threw some in breakfast tacos, sausage and tortillas, sautéed onions and peppers....hot hot and hotter.  I can eat 1 or 2 regular habaneros ( the other varieties I am growing) all day long.  This is a whole nother level.

Lol

[Cohim]

I bet it is. Hot and spicy things like these speed up your metabolism and burn fat. I should eat mor of them peppers. I must say that chocolate one looks beautiful
:bigup:

[tksamtec]

I watched a guy eat 13 of those on youtube, and I think his head almost exploded off.  I heard that these have tons of flavor, kind of like the Bhut Jolokia, but with all the heat they have, its not practical to use them in anything.  I grew about 5 varieties of peppers this season, and now with the cool northeastern nights, my pepper plants are about done.  It wasn't a great growing season for me... when we were in a drought, I couldn't keep them watered enough, then it got cool and they didn't need any water at all.  I felt my yield was fairly low this season.  My habanero plant had about 20 nice peppers over the season, but they weren't as hot as I expected them to be...I might try a hotter variety next year, but just to dry out and use as crushed pepper flakes, using them fresh with all of those garden fresh oils is not very friendly when its time for them to come back out.