Repo Mang
Also known as BOC X Reaper OG3 · BOC x Reaper Orange
Repo Mang is Towns-End Chili & Spice's orange OG3 selection of Paul Willet's Bhut Orange Copenhagen × Carolina Reaper cross — a wrinkled, stinger-tailed Capsicum chinense superhot with sweet citrus fruit and Reaper-level heat.
About 48 times a Capsi Jalapeño (25,086 SHU typical).
Growing
~90 days to maturity
Fruit size
4–6 cm
Flavor & Use
Sweet citrus-orange fruit from Bhut Orange Copenhagen, then a delayed Reaper-level throat burn.
Culinary
About
Repo Mang is a wrinkled, stinger-tailed Capsicum chinense superhot. Pods ripen from green to bright orange and look like a compact Carolina Reaper: bumpy, thin-walled fruit with a pronounced tail. Seed-catalog listings of this BOC × Reaper cross put heat around 1.2 million SHU. Flavor follows the Danish BOC parent — sweet, fruity, and citrusy — before a hard Reaper-style burn settles in the throat. Use a sliver, not a pod, in hot sauce, powder, or salsa, and handle with gloves.
Backstory
Paul Willet made the Bhut Orange Copenhagen × Carolina Reaper cross just before retiring from pepper growing. Bryan Townshend of Towns-End Chili & Spice in South Florida received the original red seed in 2015. Orange phenotypes first appeared in 2016; the G3/OG3 selection named Repo Mang showed up in 2019 and closely matches Willet's original red F1 shape. T-E released the orange line after other vendors relabeled it — the name is a repossession joke. Bhut Orange Copenhagen itself was isolated in 2009 by Søren Friis Larsen in Hørsholm, Denmark. Repo Mang later became a parent of T-E's Orange Sharknado (Red Shark × Repo Mang).
Appearance
Growing
Heritage
ExploreRepo Mang is an F2+ of Bhut Orange Copenhagen and Carolina Reaper, still splitting and not yet a finished line.
Paul Willet; Bryan Townshend (Towns-End Chili & Spice) · 2019
Sources
FAQ
- How hot is Repo Mang?
- Capsi’s sourced range is 1,200,000 SHU (Vendor Claim). Capsi uses a sourced range and a trust tier, not a single marketing number. How we verify heat: https://web.thecapsi.app/learn/heat-and-capsaicin/how-we-measure-heat
- What does Repo Mang taste like?
- Sweet citrus-orange fruit from Bhut Orange Copenhagen, then a delayed Reaper-level throat burn.
- How do I grow Repo Mang?
- Repo Mang: about 90 days to maturity, subtropical climate, full sun, hardiness zones 9-11.
- What can I substitute for Repo Mang?
- Capsi does not have that recorded yet.