Ah darn! No, this was a learning exercise. I'm in Scotland so the plant was growing in doors and I never even thought to pollinate the flowers until the lady minute so this is the only fruit I managed to get! Now it's stuck half green half orange! Pretty disappointed that it's an unrecognisable pepper!! Oh well thanks for the help though.

:-) I soaked the seeds in camelia tea before I sowed. The seedling soil is coco coir and the pots are egg shell size, I covered the seedling soil with a thin layer of cat litter. I do not use heating propagator but I put on the windowsill, it is a bit warm because the room heater is under the windowsill. On the same day I sowed Bulgarian Carrot too but there is no sign of germination yet, these seeds have very think skin. Keep waiting they could be germinated soon. Good luck :-) Caelian

Yeah, the problem with Pepper Joe/Penny's Tomatoes isn't the customers he's delivered to... ...it's the people he's threatened ...it's the seed he's renamed in order to create false exclusivity ...it's the photos/text he's stolen from others to fill his websites ...it's the excuses he makes and blame he re-directs rather than accepting responsibility ...it's his treatment of critics, from threats of lawsuits to all out attacks on other businesses and works (such as the attack on fellow GardenWeb tomato expert Carolyn Male (amongst others) or websites that are critical of his businesses) This guy is working hard to put his name/face/business out there as the defacto face of the pepper industry. He not only doesn't deserve it...he doesn't have the credibility to make a claim to it.

You have to find sellers that have been selling seeds for several years. Otherwise, they just open an Ebay account late in the fall when everyone is thinking about starting plants. Then over the next 5 or 6 months they sell maybe 500 packs of Carolina Reaper seeds at $5.00 per pack. That amounts to $2,500 dollars. The buyers all plant their seeds in January or February and don't ever get a pepper pod until about May and find out they really have Orange Habaneros or Jalapenos or whatever. By the time the negative feedbacks start racking up and Ebay shuts them down, they have pocketed $2,500 bucks and dissapear. They may have 5 or 6 Ebay accounts all at once selling all the Hot new designer peppers of the year. It is a common scam that happens over and over. And then we sit on this list telling person after person they got screwed when they post a picture of a habanero and ask it it looks like a Reaper. If you find a seller that has a bunch of positive and little negative feed back that has been selling seed for more than a year, then they should be one of the very few reputable seed suppliers on ebay. But you better do your homework if you want to go the ebay or amazon route. It is so much easier and safer and less expensive to simply do a swap with someone on this forum of just ask. I have sent at least 100 people seeds for free. Some require a self address stamped envelope but most of the time, I will just send them the seeds as it is less complicated.