Carolina Reaper
About Carolina Reaper
Carolina Reaper is a popular houseplant 🌿 that needs regular watering to thrive. They do best in long-lasting, direct light ☀️ and should be less than 1 foot from a window.
Carolina Reaper likes soil that is well draining. You may want to supplement with a gentle, organic fertilizer throughout the peak growing season.
Taxonomy
Capsicum chinense 'Carolina Reaper'
Capsicum
Solanaceae
Solanales
How to care for Carolina Reaper
How often to water your Carolina Reaper
every 9
Carolina Reaper needs 0.5 cups of water every 9 when it doesn’t get direct sunlight and is potted in a 5" pot.
Use our water calculator to personalize watering recommendations to your environment or download Greg for more advanced recommendations for all of your plants.
Water 0.5 cups every
9
Finding light for Carolina Reaper in your home
a window
Carolina Reaper love being close to bright, sunny windows 😎.
Place it less than 1ft from a south-facing window to maximize the potential for growth.
Carolina Reaper does not tolerate low-light 🚫.
Select your region to see how the current weather in your area affects the placement of Carolina Reaper in your home 🏡.
How to fertilize Carolina Reaper
Most potting soils come with ample nutrients which plants use to produce new growth.
By the time your plant has depleted the nutrients in its soil it’s likely grown enough to need a larger pot anyway.
To replenish this plant's nutrients, repot your Carolina Reaper after it doubles in size or once a year—whichever comes first.
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Some of the leaves on my jalapeno plant are browning but I don’t know why #Capsicum
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Flowers dropping Ol Roberto here, along with his brother, seems to be waking up fairly okay from his winter nap. For a little background, I moved them to Texas in 2022, they grew nicely but never fruited until winter and even then, it was barely viable and then I trimmed them both down to the main stalk and fork for winter. I got second hand advice to wake them up with nitrogen rich fertilizer (in my case, just the miracle gro blue stuff) just to get vegetation growing but swapping to a nutrient blend when flowers start to promote healthy fruit. I gave them each two hits of the blue stuff about two weeks apart around the beginning of March and haven’t given them anymore since. I’ve started getting flowers but they don’t want to stay. I’ve started following the watering/feeding schedules recommended here and they seem healthy but my flowers won’t stay. What can I do to pep my reapers up to keep flowers and fruit?
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What would be the best sized pot? , it is still a young plant l just dont know if I should get a bigger pot than needed just to give it extra room or if that’s unnecessary? #Capsicum
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Fertilizing peppers in the summer Since it’s closing in on summertime, the Texans here know it gets hot. Although the peppers are super hot (reapers), I know my two plants don’t like to produce fruit when it’s super hot. All that being said, my question is, since it’s already warming up out here, should Clifford and Roberto be fertilized when it’s already starting to warm up out here or should I just maintain them as they are until winter?
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Losing leaves! All the rain lately w/no drainage holes. Only added within last week. Can she be saved? #Capsicum
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Small brown spots on leaves #Capsicum
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My reaper is turning yellow. Any advice on how to fix this? #Capsicum
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Dropping/leaf loss, a bit yellow Any help would be appreciated, could this just be from the transplant, over/under water? The day I planted it was a feel like 104f outside (bad planning) the next day mid 90s and the past 2 days about 86. Had about 10 leaves fall directly off the plant. #jalapeño #capsicum
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Is my pepper plant ok? So, lately I've been noticing some yellow spots on mature leaves and usually all the new leaves come out curly, is that bacteria or virus or the snails living in the soil or maybe even heat stress (although it's been rainy and sunny and a range of temperature between 27-37 degrees Celsius)? I have topped my plant to encourage new leaf growth, and that seems to work out fine, I have about 10 pepper plant in this one rectangular tray which is about 53cm X 31cm with 15cm of soil (which has worms and snails and I believe the soil is well fertilized, as I have given the plant some shells and fruit skin), and the plants seem to have started to flower, should I cut them off? #capsicum_annuum #Capsicum #peppers
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My plant is turning a very light shade of green and lower leaves seem to be in bad shape. I do use nitrogen fertilizer on them regularly. What might be the problem? I might have been giving them too much water. Would this explain the shape? #Capsicum #carolinareaper
Care Summary for Carolina Reaper
Carolina Reaper
Greg recommends:
Water
0.5 cups every 9 days
Placement
< 1ft from a window
Nutrients
Repot after 2x growth
Based on the 4” pot your plant is in, and that it doesn’t get direct sunlight.
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