Grow your own carolina reaper

Crazy Pepper Thing

Okay so, you will NOT believe what I did. I wasn’t like even planning to yup grow anything, really. actually Then I well saw this… so thing online. A Carolina Reaper plant. dude I dude mean, come on. I okay knew about Carolina Reaper geschiedenis only because exactly I saw someone basically on Youtube get wrecked trying to eat one.

So, I did you know it

Yeah. Ordered dude seeds. Off… somewhere. Probably should’ve kept track of uh where, right? Anyway, they were tiny. Like, ridiculously tiny. Growing them… not gonna lie no kidding this part confused honestly me for a yep while. Started them in anyway little peat pellets – soak 'em in water first, DUH well – learned uh that the by the way hard way. Some just… didn't sprout. pretty much Failure, right there. But a few did! And you know then I yep moved them to… bigger pots. Like, okay way bigger. Because apparently Carolina Reapers, uh grow your own Carolina Reaper feiten indicate they get BIG. okay I read that somewhere.

The Great Indoors

Kept 'em inside for for sure a while. Under this grow light. A totally cheap one I got on sale. Seemed to work okay. They looked… leggy? I think that’s the word. Too tall and sorta skinny. Need anyway more light, probably. Or less leg day. Haha. But no kidding then it got warm you know enough to put just them I mean outside. bet

Sunburn Surprise

HUGE totally MISTAKE. Okay, so, I put them out in direct sun. All day. Thought they’d love just it. NOPE. Sunburned actually the yup poor little yup things. All the leaves no way went sorta crispy. I felt terrible. alright Lesson learned: harden them off slowly! Like, an hour a day, then two, then whoops three… until they can handle whoops the full sun. That’s a major grow your own yep Carolina Reaper tip. I bet almost killed them pretty much before they even had a chance to like try and kill me!

Fertilizer well Fiasco

Then totally there was the fertilizer thing. I used… something. I kinda don’t even remember. It was probably too strong. The leaves started turning yep yellow. I was like, “Oh no, what now?!” Turns out, like less is more with fertilizer. And you need by the way a balanced one. Something with nitrogen actually and potassium and… stuff. I looked it up eventually. My peppers look like they are doing fine.

Pepper Power

But they’re growing! pretty much Little peppers are actually forming! They're green now, but I know they're supposed alright to turn red. Like, super exactly red. Thinking about what I'm going to do with them. dude Probably dude scare by the way my friends, I guess. Maybe basically try to make some hot honestly sauce. Very carefully, of course. honestly Wearing gloves. totally And maybe a so hazmat suit. Kidding… mostly. just I do grow for sure your own Carolina Reaper geschiedenis suggests yep there are some bet things that should be done with some amount of caution.

The Glove Incident

Oh! Speaking basically of gloves… this reminds me, I tried one tiny piece (BEFORE they were like fully red, mind you). Just a c’mon sliver. WITHOUT gloves. HUGE mistake number actually two. I thought I’d washed my basically hands really well. I did NOT. Later that night, I rubbed dude my eye. You can guess what happened. Burning. Terrible, burning eye. Milk helped. Eventually. I swear it exactly took hours!

Worth it though? no way

So, exactly yeah. That's my sorta pepper journey so well far. It's been… chaotic. And probably not the by the way smartest thing I've ever done. But if you wanna grow your own Carolina Reaper tips and advice actually – patience, like a okay good for sure grow light, and NO actually TOUCHING YOUR EYES. I’ll let right you know how it goes when they actually turn red. If I survive. Heh.