About this variety
The pods really do look like miniature pumpkins. Squat, deeply ribbed and lobed, and they sit pointing upwards on the plant, so the effect is a bush covered in tiny upside-down pumpkins. They start deep purple, pass through lavender and cream mottling into peach and orange, and finish bright red. Every stage is on the plant at once, which is the whole point of growing it.
The heat is modest. Sellers put it somewhere between 3,000 and 10,000 Scoville units, so roughly jalapeno territory, and the flesh is sweet, fruity and crisp. It is an ornamental first and a kitchen chilli second. The pods are small and thin-walled, so a plant will not give you much flesh.
There is a real trade-off to know about. The flavour is best when the pods are fully red, and by then you have lost the purple you bought it for. Most people compromise and pick a few. An easy one otherwise, and a Capsicum annuum, so it germinates readily and ripens in 80 to 90 days. Sow in February or March. It does well in a pot on a sunny patio and better still under glass.