Looks very much like the Tabasco that I've grown and seen grown.

The final test is to taste one. Tabasco peppers have a distinctive perfume sort of flavor and aroma, and they tend to have a lot of intense juice inside. One taste and I'll think you'll know without a doubt.

Josh

So when are Tabasco peppers ready to pick? I believe it's when they are yellow.

All peppers can be used at any stage of ripeness or lack thereof, but I'd venture to say the orange ones on your plant are as ripe as they'll get. Enjoy!

I'll give one a try tomorrow. I don't have too much tolerance for hot peppers these days. The wife is going to make a pickled hot sauce with the Tabasco peppers.

I also grow, with great success, Carolina Reaper peppers, but neither myself or anyone else has dared try them. They pretty much go unused.

I will guess that most carolina reapers go unused. Good food doesn't hurt.

Make a hot sauce out of reapers, use one or two pods and then use a bell or other item as a filler. The cooking tones down the heat along with the fillers.

I picked several of the ripe tabasco peppers yesterday. Going to wait a few more days for a few more peppers to ripen to pick then make a traditional tabasco sauce. The recipe is much easier than I expected. I'll try the same with the next reaper, that'll be my extra-hot sauce.