Howell grower disputes Pepper X’s record for world’s hottest pepper

PEPPER WARS

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Guinness World Records recently announced that the world’s new hottest pepper is a veggie known as Pepper X, grown in South Carolina.

But Ryan Karcher, a veteran pepper grower from Howell, questions Pepper X’s reported heat measurement. And he says he has developed a pepper that’s tastier and more representative of the pepper community.

It will be featured in a Jan. 22 television show called …