In 2017 on its release, Ed Currie noted that they had sent Pepper X away to the Guinness Book of World Records for testing to surpass the Carolina Reaper and that by November of 2017 it would be confirmed, but this did not pan out. Pepper X has a Scoville Heat Rating of 3.18 million SHUs: the public has not seen the evidence to substantiate this claim.That’s as far as we can get on facts alone. Someone stole peppers from Ed Currie’s farm in 2017 after the announcement around Pepper X (unconfirmed which peppers were stolen).Gator Sauce by Puckerbutt also has Pepper X listed as its top ingredient.Currently, no legitimate Pepper X seeds are available for sale.The Last Dab XXX contains multiple variations of Pepper X including Peach Pepper X and Chocolate Pepper X.Pepper X is currently included as the primary pepper in The Last Dab and first appeared in the original Last Dab sauce in 2017. ![]() These are statements of fact, as we understand them to be, feel free to let us know if there is any skepticism around the validity of these claims. Pepper X is still a bit of a mystery overall, so we thought we’d dive further into some of the facts and mythos of Pepper X. The thread became flooded with all sorts of chaos around Pepper X not being real, to the tired “Ed Curry is a thief” comments, to folks saying they were already growing them in their backyard. The post itself was innocent enough with one gentleman asking if anyone was growing it yet and where he could get some seeds. There was a bit of a dust-up this week in the Fermented Hot Sauce Society Facebook group that got so intense the admins turned commenting off. I had mentioned to him my poor germination and that was why I had to buy more seeds, but all I got were just what I paid for when the second batch of seeds came in.īottom line is, you DO need to buy from a trusted source, whoever that might be, but I'm sure there are some very good sources of reaper seeds out there, no matter what someone wants to call them.The short answer is, no one knows for sure. I know I will buy more materials from Jim, I will never buy anything else from Joe. The results I have had from his material has been WAY better than the Carolina Reaper seeds I got from Joe originally. ![]() I have bought quite a few starter plants from him and only a small fraction came up not true to form. To know for sure, you would have to ask Jim if his plants were isolated enough to make pure seeds. On the other hand, I'm sure there are quite a few people like me that have taken the precautions to make sure that their seed producing plants were kept pure. Their website is slightly correct just because you don't know if someone's seeds came from stock that was being grown close to other peppers and any source might not be pure. ![]() I think all in all, it is a good pepper, but still needed work from the genetics that we were handed. Even though they are still from reaper genetics, I will continue to improve each generation by only using the best plants for the next generation, so I will at some time have IR3, IR4, etc. For myself, I am calling these improved plants IR2. What I did was separate these 4 plants from all the other pepper plants way back to the back part of the nursery and produced seeds, and then plants, that were more consistant than the seed batch that came from the source. Soon after people were producing pods, the sellers changed the description of their product saying the pods would be variable. For me, I got about 60 seeds and got less plants than I would have hoped for and when these plants produced pods, maybe 4 plants out of the bunch produced pods that looked like we were originally promised they would look like. Many of us got the original, or certified seeds from the source, at least as far as we know. There shouldn't be any difference in the two, but everything depends on the quality of the seeds that a person produces.
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