TNKS - "Looks like the store bought scotch,nothing close to a scorpion strain IMO". Unless I am completely missing the boat on a variation, Scotch Bonnets are like HABs and should not look like Scorpion Peppers. They will have smooth skin as opposed to the more wrinkled skin of a Scorpion pepper.

three of them made a mess in one room. It was all sticky, and bugy so i washed them in bathroom and took it outside. It was hell to do. They grew along the windows without real support so when i took them down....with all those bugs...hell. Now they are outside on 5th floor. Wasps come by, have some lunch, some lady bugs as well. The nums od aphids is droping, but plants are loosing leaves rapidly. Htere were some cattepilars as well, but i guess that they didn't like neem oil, and me taking them down so there are no caterpillars. It is interesting that lemon chilly pepper doesn't have many of aphids, even when the leaves of infested neighbor habaneros are touching. There is some chemistry that someone should investigate. Three other plants were without aphids until recently, and numbers are growing incredible. I sprayed them on window sills with neem oil stronger than 2%, and i can see effects pretty quick...but i put also more organic dish soap. They are not pretty anymore, loosing leaves, sticky. pods are sticky, some are soft to touch...not the plants "that i used to know ". Talking about bad luck, i have some requests to sell them. By now I had more than 600 pods, approximately one kilo of dried ones. I had some experiment with those few pods that grew mold on stings when drying. I washed them all in diluted peroxide 3%, than in vinegar, water and dried them allover. No mold now, and aflatoxin i guess. I learned that that repeated drying process can give an extra flavour, like Urfa pepper ( Turkish/Syrian stuff )

Haha. Yeah they are super hot. Love spice (have a bunch of datils and scotch bonnets) but eating peppers off this bush has been the only time I've experienced pain as the pepper traveled down my stomach!

I haven't grown reapers, but plenty of other hots (and sweets) habanero, jalapeno, cayenne, thai, scotch bonnet. I don't start peppers this early. I start two sets - one four weeks before the expected last frost, the other two weeks. Seeds soaked overnight then put in potting soil in trays (or starter cups). The four week is really for the option of an early spring to put them out early. The two weeks, I keep inside until I'm sure that a late freeze comes through. If you start them now for the spring, you will need a real grow light setup, because they will be full grown bushes by spring.