Naga Black Chilli – four dark chocolate-brown wrinkled pods on a white surface

Naga Black Chilli

£3.49
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Naga Black Chilli – four dark chocolate-brown wrinkled pods on a white surface

Naga Black Chilli

Capsicum chinense 'Naga Black'

A large-podded Naga ripening to deep chocolate brown, claimed at 700,000 to 800,000 SHU. Origins undocumented and the line is not fully stable, so expect the occasional red pod.

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How hot is it?

Superhot

Scoville 700,000-800,000 SHU (claimed, untested)

Your growing year

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At a glance

Height

80-120cm

Spread

50-70cm

Spacing

60cm

Position

Full sun. Greenhouse or polytunnel essential in the UK. Frost-tender.

Soil

Rich, fertile, well-drained.

Seeds per packet

10

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About this variety

A dark-podded Naga that ripens to deep chocolate brown instead of the usual red. The pods are large, reportedly bigger than a Chocolate Bhut Jolokia, and they hang on a bushy plant of 80cm to 1.2m that crops well.

We will be honest about what is not known here. Nobody has published a breeder, a date or a parentage for this variety. Sellers put it at 700,000 to 800,000 Scoville units, which is entirely plausible for a Naga, though no laboratory has ever tested it. And the line is not stable. Some plants will throw red pods instead of brown ones. If the colour is the reason you are buying, grow more than one and accept that not all of them will oblige.

Otherwise treat it as a standard superhot. Sow in January or February at around 25C in a heated propagator, grow it on under glass, and expect ripe pods from September. It will not ripen outdoors in a British summer. Wear gloves.