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Ultra-hot peppers starting at 100,000 Scoville units and rocketing over 2 million!  For the worthy.

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Carolina Reaper Pepper

Ranked as the hottest pepper in the world by Guinness, and registering at over 1,500,000 Scoville heat units, this is not a pepper for the timid. The fruit average 1.5 to 2 inches in length and have a nice fruity flavor if you are able to dilute the heat in your favorite dish to something you can eat. Fruit look like a bumpy little devil with a pointed tail. Reaper seeds are difficult to germinate and require a heating pad and thirty days just to sprout. 95 days. 

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Mayan Red Habanero Pepper

Fruit of this unusual habanero average 3 to 4 inches in length with a slender width. Fruit have a fruity habanero flavor with high pungency. Sturdy plants reach 36 inches, and offer good cover against sunburn. Produced commercially in the Yucatan Peninsula, this variety is very productive. It even performs well in cooler climates. 90 days.

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White Habanero Pepper

These creamy white peppers are smaller than the typical habanero, only about 1½ inches long and ½ inch across, but with the same habanero heat and distinctive fruity flavor. Expect abundant harvests of these very hot peppers. 90 days.

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Habanero Brown Pepper

This extra-large habanero is not only special for its size and productivity, it also ranks as one of the world’s hottest peppers. Expect an impressive harvest of these 2½ inch long chocolate-brown peppers, but handle with care as these fruit are searingly hot. This is a beautiful and very tasty habanero. 85 days.

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Bhut Jolokia Red Pepper (Ghost Pepper)

Also known as the Ghost Pepper, this is one of the hottest peppers in the world, bearing extremely hot, red fruit about 2½ inches long. In 2007, Guiness World Book of Records named it the hottest pepper and listed it as 1,002,304 Scoville units. It has since been surpassed, but it’s still plenty hot and should be handled with great care. Germination may take up to one month. 100 days.

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Jamaican Hot Yellow Pepper

Very compact, densely foliaged plants bear an abundance of bright yellow or red, thin-skinned hot peppers that are shaped like a tam o' shanter. Actually a type of squash pepper. Interesting shape and spicy taste make this pepper good to eat fresh, pickle, or use as a garnish. 95 days.

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Yellow Mushroom Pepper

So named because of its shape resembling a mushroom, it is also sometimes known as a squash pepper for its resemblance to a patty-pan squash. Maturing to golden yellow, this is an extremely hot fruit. Abundant harvests of these thin-skinned, 2 inch peppers. 80 days.

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Habanero (Red) Pepper

This bright-red version of Habanero is one hot pepper – a staggering 285,000 Scoville units! The fruit shape and size are much like the regular Habanero, wrinkled 1 to 1½ inch long peppers with a tapered end. These peppers turn a brilliant red upon maturity and grow in abundance on 3½ foot tall plants. 90 to 95 days.

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Jamaican Hot Red Pepper

Very compact, densely foliaged plants bear an abundance of bright yellow or red, thin-skinned hot peppers that are shaped like a tam o' shanter. Actually a type of squash pepper. Interesting shape and spicy taste make this pepper good to eat fresh, pickle, or use as a garnish. 95 days.

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Habanero Pepper

A blistering-hot pepper 40 times hotter than Jalapeno! Among the most potent ones we sell. Wrinkled fruit is 1 inch long and 1½ inches wide, with a tapered end. Peppers begin as light green then turn to golden-orange and are loaded onto 36 inch tall plants. 90 to 100 days.

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Scotch Bonnet Red Pepper

A Capsicum chinense very similar to Habanero, but later in maturity with fruit that is not quite as long. Tall, vigorous plants bear peppers that begin as green but mature to red. Fruity aroma and same blistering heat as the Habanero. Now available in red and orange varieties. 120 days.

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Hot Paper Lantern Pepper

This pepper is related to the habanero, but offers earlier maturity and larger fruit that ripens to bright fire-engine red. 3 to 4-in. elongated, crinkled fruits are as fiery hot as regular habanero. Tall plants bear a great abundance of peppers that continue bearing all season and may be more reliable than habanero in colder climates. 90 days.

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