About this variety
A cross between the 7 Pot Brain Strain and the Dorset Naga, which tells you most of what you need to know. The deeply folded, convoluted pod surface comes from the Brain Strain side and the heat and aromatic quality from the Naga. Pods ripen green to red, roughly 4cm long and nearly as wide, on a heavy-cropping plant of 70cm to a metre.
The flavour is fruity and faintly floral, with a moment of sweetness before the heat arrives. That heat is usually quoted at around a million Scoville units. It has never been lab-tested, and the figure is inherited from its parents rather than measured.
The line sits at about the sixth generation and is not fully fixed. Growers report pods varying on a single plant, some long like the Dorset Naga, some squat and round like a 7 Pot. If you want uniform pods for photographs, this is the wrong chilli. If you want a good superhot with an interesting face, it is a fine one. Greenhouse only in Britain, sown in January. Gloves.