seysonn, AFAIK this pepper is not a "U.S. protected variety" under the Plant Variety Protection Act (one of the requirements of which is that the variety be genetically stable through successive generations, LOL!), nor AFAIK has it been issued a corresponding PVP Certificate of Protection or PVP #, see - USDA Plant Variety Protection Office This is how the Guinness World Records holder for many years, the Red Savina was properly protected, see - http://apps.ams.usda.gov/CMS//AdobeImages/009200255.pdf A Trademark, on the other hand, does NOT grant you exclusive rights to a plant variety, but instead protects things like trade names! From what I have read you're not even ALLOWED to trademark a variety name, because that is considered the "generic" name for all plants of that variety. Indeed, I seem to recall seeing a post somewhere here which said they actually had to disclaim the variety name in order to get their trademark, ah, here it is, in that infamous thread - Pepper joe Legit? (See post by Orekoc, on Fri, Jul 18, 14 at 1:20) They also linked to the trademark, but the link says their search session had expired! But if you go here - http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/index.jsp Click "Trademark Search" on the blue nav links on the left, then click "Basic Word Mark Search (New User)" option, then enter Carolina Reaper for the Search Term and click Submit Query, you should get 2 records found. Click the first one (85930781), and scroll down to "Disclaimer", and read what is says! The blue TSDR button will also retrieve the status and documents associated with this trademark, I believe the following link should take you right to a letter from the Patent and Trademark Office, informing them they had to disclaim the generic varietal name "CAROLINA REAPER" - http://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn85930781&docId=OOA20130525063421#docIndex=9&page=1 A Trademark does NOT provide PVP-style "protected variety" rights for a cultivar, and this trademark does not even protect the generic name for this variety of pepper! Here is a link that might be useful: US Patent and Trademark Office, Trademarks Home

Just happened to come across this post. I'd say 95% of my peppers were grown from store bought fruits. They have been productive and haven't given me much problems except for when I brought them outside from indoor growing. One of my sweet bell peppers is fully loaded, it has 6 or 7 giant fruit on it and 1 of them is starting to turn colour now. Here is a picture of my scotch bonnet also grown from store bought fruit.... Unfortunately I didn't put it in a good location because it's surrounded by green beans and a couple corn plants and fava beans.... The good news is the fava beans are almost ready so they'll be gone within a week, two max.

Hi Vera, PepperJoe is notorious for re-naming his peppers and selling them for a higher price. I wasn't that happy with a few that I grew from him, but I will say this about his Golden Habanero: he's not kidding when he says that the sucker is HOT! I mean it's brutally hot, nuclear hot, much hotter than a Chocolate Habanero. Shockingly hot. The thing nearly chased my Trinidad Scorpion out of the garden. You get the picture. It is also a very large, prolific and beautiful plant/pod. Easy to become a favorite if you love pain or don't like your neighbors, etc. Enjoy the growing season, and next year try a few of these suppliers if you haven't already, they are also very good with great prices/service. www.peppermania.com www.tomatogrowers.com www.tough-love.com www.pepperhot.com E-mail me at njchilehead@aol.com if you want recommendations for good peppers (especially C. Chinense, which I have sort of an affinity for). Mark in NJ

Anyone else have any guesses? Pepper Puzzle Anyone Recognize This Guy? Long Red Pepper ID Help I did U-Pick again yesterday. However, as with last week, the people who work the registers have no idea what's in the fields. My guess is you shouldn't shop at that U-Pick again! This post was edited by northeast_chileman on Tue, Oct 7, 14 at 19:59