Carolina Reaper chilli.

lived666 said:
Do you need some reapers?

I had a fair amount of Chilis grow this year, a mixture of reapers, habeneros, 7-pot etc as per the pic below:

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So i made another sauce, just mixing them all together. In hindsight I should have made 2 sauces, one without the reapers so as to have a general hot sauce and not another I can't ****en breath sauce, but alas, that ship has sailed.

My sauce in the pot,. I need to move it to bottles but 5 days after making it I still can't get the oils off my fingers, so I'm dreading handling it again:whistling:


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buy a box of latex medical gloves - best for handling chillies
 
Somebody gave somebody that I know a couple of reapers and I ended up with one. Shelled out a few seeds and planted them in a pot about two weeks ago and have about 5x 2cm plants already. Was amazed at how quick they germinated.
 
TheFriendlyGhost said:
Somebody gave somebody that I know a couple of reapers and I ended up with one. Shelled out a few seeds and planted them in a pot about two weeks ago and have about 5x 2cm plants already. Was amazed at how quick they germinated.
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Ya, I also find they quite easy to germinate. My issue has to get them to grow from replanting the seedlings into monster plants - I had around 30 this year that just didn't make from seedling to adult plant - not sure why, then again I don't really have a green thumb or look after them that well, they plants, they should just grow, and some have.

When I do look after them I give them egg shells and plant food and in a few days I will trim my big plants a tad and cover them for winter, some are too big so they wasting energy on growing when they should be chillaxing for the winter.
 
Venomous said:
The facing heaven chillies(have 2) only really sprouted earlier this year, so they are still tiny. Think tbey came out late feb if I remember correctly. I am tempted to move them to pots and put them inside for the winter. Not sure how well they will out live a joburg winter.. .View attachment 643162
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Where did you get your seeds from? I've been battling for a long time.

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I'm aiming at making this:
 
If anyone sees Encona reaper chilli sauce, don't bother buying it. It's only 4% reaper and not hot.
 
can we get an update on who has some reapers or 7 pots, fresh or dried, its going to be used in a sauce.
 
I have a couple of 7 Pot Douglah, but it's too early for them to be fruiting. They were very productive last summer.
 
Planted a few Ghost Chilli seeds. Coming Sunday it would be 14 days since I planted. No sprouts yet. Starting to think they are duds...
 
jadiwolv said:
Planted a few Ghost Chilli seeds. Coming Sunday it would be 14 days since I planted. No sprouts yet. Starting to think they are duds...
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Our Fatalis took more than 14 days to sprout, after planting seeds at the end of Sept. So perhaps give them a few more days?
 
flarkit said:
Our Fatalis took more than 14 days to sprout, after planting seeds at the end of Sept. So perhaps give them a few more days?
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Yeah will do. I plated a few in small containers, one in a big pot and some in the ground. So i have different environments to see which they like more.
 
lived666 said:
So just about to make a batch of reaper sauce. I have learned the very hard way (when you touch your no-no :eek:) to wear gloves:

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I made that mistake last week. Picked habaneros and ghost chillies to ferment in jars for a sause later the year.
Took out my contacts the evening .... Fuuuuuuuuck. And the next morning putting my contacts back - fuuuuuuuuuck. Thought i'm going to miss work.
Anycase, what's your recipe ?
 
HunterNW said:
I made that mistake last week. Picked habaneros and ghost chillies to ferment in jars for a sause later the year.
Took out my contacts the evening .... Fuuuuuuuuck. And the next morning putting my contacts back - fuuuuuuuuuck. Thought i'm going to miss work.
Anycase, what's your recipe ?
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A standard basic recipe - onions, garlic, tomato, the reaper chilis and some others, cider vinegar, honey, pepper & salt, a dash of cinnamon, some ginger - nothing spectacular, sometimes leave out the tomato depending on the flavor I feel like. If I want to make a sweeter version I throw in some mango. Cook for about half an hour in olive oil low/medium heat and then blitz into a sauce.

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I'm in the process of building a greenhouse (early stages), will put up some dutch buckets and do some hydro growing... already got a few Maruga Scorpion seeds, and couple of Space Queen seeds too ;). If anyone wants to part with 10 or so Carolina seeds ...hit a bud up :sneaky:
 
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