If i'm wrong im sure someone will correct me, but the ghost pepper is not a hybrid. the Carolina Reaper in my understanding is a named variety but it has been known to throw out random peppers due to not being breed true for enough generations. the scorpion is breed true so should reliably turn out scorpion peppers

Sorry double post

This post was edited by lundaesundae on Wed, Feb 26, 14 at 17:56

I think lundaesundea is pretty much right on the money.

As long as you have known pure seed from the Ghost and Moruga, you should be able to expect true growing fruit. The Reaper seems to be mostly pure but there are a lot of reports of plants not growing true. It is a relatively new variety that may have been rushed to the commercial market before it was grown out enough generations to make it statistically pure. Part of the reports of non-true growing plants can also be attributed to seed sources that are selling seed from non-isolated plants and even sources that knowingly are selling non-Reaper seeds in order to make a fast buck.
Bruce

> "Are these OP or Hybrid?"

OP (open pollinated) and hybrid are two different things.

Open-pollinated means that the plant was not isolated from other types of peppers and *may* have been pollinated by something else, producing hybrid seeds. Even in close proximity to other peppers, a pepper is about 90% self-pollinating so the odds of a hybrid seed existing at all are 1 in 10. Then you have to consider the odds that the resulting seed is viable. Many crosses aren't. Non-commercial pepper growers don't worry about low odds like that.

A hybrid is the result of cross-pollination (either open or intentional), and as per above may or may not be viable. Many viable hybrids are unstable with the resulting characteristics varying from seed to seed.

To answer the question directly, Reaper is a hybrid, the others are not. Seeds from them may or may not have been open pollinated.

Dennis