🌶️ 7 Pot Brain Strain Red – A fiery super-hot with an impressive appearance!

The 7 Pot Brain Strain Red is a particularly powerful chili pepper from the Capsicum chinense-family. This superhot belongs to the well-known 7 Pot group, originating from Trinidad, and is known for its extreme spiciness and distinctive, whimsical appearance.

The Brain Strain was further selected by the American pepper enthusiast David Capiello from a 7-pot line, where the particularly wrinkled fruits with their characteristic, brain-like structure stood out especially.

The fruits have a compact, wide and irregular shape, With a strongly wrinkled, bumpy shell. Some specimens develop a distinctive tip at the base. During ripening, they change from green to a beautiful, shiny purple color.

Despite its extreme spiciness, this pepper has a fruity, slightly sweet aroma, followed by a particularly intense and long-lasting heat. An excellent choice for experienced super-hot lovers who like to make their own hot sauces, chili powders, or spice blends.

🌶️ Characteristics

• Type: Capsicum chinense
• Provenance: 7 Pot-line from Trinidad, further selected in the United States
• Pithiness: about 800,000–1,200,000 SHU (extremely hot)
• Fruit size: approx. 4–6 cm
• Color: green → deep red
• Shape: compact, wide and irregular, with a strongly wrinkled, brain-like structure and sometimes a point
• Flavor: fruity, slightly sweet and particularly intense
• Plant size: approx. 90–120 cm, depending on the growing conditions
• Usage: hot sauces, chili powder and other very spicy preparations

🌱 Cultivation information

• Seeding: preferably January–March indoors
• Root temperature: 25–28 °C
• Expensive: usually 10–30 days, sometimes longer
• Planting out: after the ice saints, when there is no longer any chance of frost at night
• Pitch: warm, sunny and sheltered
• Harvest: usually August–October, depending on the weather and the growing conditions
• Cultivation: Suitable for a greenhouse, greenhouse or a large pot in a warm, sunny location
• Seeds: Open Pollinated

As with most Capsicum chinense-varieties like the 7 Pot Brain Strain Red require a long growing season. Therefore, it is recommended to sow early.

⚠️ Attention: Extremely hot!

The 7 Pot Brain Strain Red It is only suitable for lovers of very hot peppers. Wear gloves when handling and avoid contact with eyes and sensitive skin.

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