About this variety
Sold in Britain as a cross between the Carolina Reaper and Pink Tiger, and grown for the colour above all. The pods are gnarled and textured, ripening to a soft peach-pink, with the small tail-like points the Reaper side contributes. The foliage is dark, which comes from the Pink Tiger parent and sets the pods off well.
Some plain speaking about this one. The name Pink Reaper is attached to at least three different plants by different sellers, so what arrives in a packet is not consistent across the trade. Pink Tiger is itself an unstable variety, which means this cross segregates: pod colour and shape vary from plant to plant, and some seedlings will look nothing like the photograph. Sellers quote around a million Scoville units. Nothing has been tested, and the Pink Tiger parent is not a superhot, so the real figure may be a good deal lower.
Grow it as a greenhouse superhot. January sowing, heated propagator, ripe pods from September onwards. The plants run tall on thin stems and need staking once the fruit sets.