We all have a tough time in keeping from going overboard. I have tempered my enthusiam each year since I started growing peppers for a hobby 5 or 6 years ago. I still wind up growing more than I can use.....my friends tend to reap the rewards however.

Yep, you got the pepper fever with the super hots. Just one of those plants would produce more heat than a single person could possibly use in a year.

The first and biggest mistake pepper growers make is too much love and watering. It seems you have learned that lesson already.

Good luck and don't make the second biggest mistake of pepper hobbyists: Wear latex gloves when handling and processing those super hots. I still break that rule every year and pay for it every time...I will probably never learn that lesson.

This is my untopped CR which I have pinched the very tops off 2 or so weeks ago to encourage better canopy. It has all its original leaves and has 3 pods

The pods...

Biggest pod...

That's a healthy looking plant and the pods seem true to phenotype, always encouraging!

This is the other CR which I topped as an experiment and the new growth was stunted and wrinkly. I suspected a pest but there were none. We've had citrus curler go through and I think it may have succumbed to that as the leaves became affected very similarly. I took off the affected growth and the original leaves except one pictured and it has been very slow to recover. It aborted all flowers and zoom in might even reveal the aborted black stumps of recent flowers. Since cutting back on watering and no ferts for a month it has made a slow recovery.

Finally of the main 3 original seed starter plants is the Moruga Trinidad Scorpion which was my tallest healthiest plant but I topped hastily and it had a similar course to the CR that had been topped. Has shown overfertilising and over watering signa too and has similarly recovered slowly over the past month.

Those pods look great. Mine has yet to set fruit ☹️