So this plant is also very difficult to grow in a temperate outdoor environment you will likely need a greenhouse that can maintain high temperatures in the environment and the soil. The ghost pepper grows in a very hot and humid five-month period in India and will take 150 days from planting to harvesting to fully finish. This is due to several reasons that mainly involve a very unique climate that ghost peppers require to grow in. Well, if you live anywhere that isn’t India, you are going to have a much simpler and quicker time with Carolina Reapers. If you do get your hands on some seeds for either of these peppers, you probably want to know just how hard it is to grow these seeds into beautiful, red peppers. Digitally, however, you can find both products relatively easily (seeds included), though it seems that both come dried more often than not. If you try to find these products locally, you are likely to be disappointed, unless you find a farmers’ market with some ambitious gardeners. Regrettably, this has not made them more prevalent on local store’s shelves. Difficulty to Buyīoth peppers are popular products due to a recent surge in popularity over spicier foods. The Carolina Reaper’s wrinkly exterior shares some similarities to its predecessor, yet it has a more squared-off body with an abrupt tail - it sits around 1-3 inches in both length and width. This chunky pepper is most notably red, though it can also be found in yellow, dark brown, and even orange. The Carolina Reaper is a bit more fundamental in its coloring. While we know it most commonly for its brilliant reddish coloring, it can also be yellow, white, orange, purple, dark brown, and even green.Ī ghost pepper has a very unique shape that starts bulbous at the top and withers downward into a pointed tip, measuring anywhere from 2 to 3.5 inches in length and sitting close to an inch in width. The ghost pepper is a fruit that wears several different shades of color. While the Carolina Reaper is likely the sweeter of the two, don’t discount the ghost pepper, as both peppers have some surprising depth to their flavor. That’s because these peppers both take about half a minute to really kick the heat into overdrive, which allows the risky consumer to really get every note of sweetness before smoke comes out of their ears. To give you the full spectrum of their flavor, you would, unfortunately, have to try them yourself, but they do offer several similarities.īefore the walls begin to close in around you from the sudden regret of having bitten into one of these peppers, you would notice a pleasant, sweet taste. That level of heat measures up to 440 times the spice that a jalapeno can produce! TasteĬontrary to popular belief, both of these peppers have some truly incredible flavor. If you were to chew on the spiciest Carolina Reaper available, you would be munching on a snack that hits 2.2 million Scoville units. The Carolina Reaper has somehow found a way to not only beat the ghost pepper but to produce double the heat. To put this in perspective, that makes it 400 times hotter than a bottle of Tabasco! At its peak, the ghost pepper can touch 1.04 million units on the Scoville scale. To start, the ghost pepper was at one point the hottest pepper in the world. To get the most fascinating aspect of these peppers out the way, let’s talk about just how disturbingly hot these peppers can be.
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