The heat keeps creeping up on you until shivers go down your spine and your face goes numb. Pods are 3” long and 1” wide with red dented skin. The 30” tall plants will produce fruit all season. The flavor is fruity up front then spooky hot. This is not for scaredy cats! Capsicum chinense/C.frutescens (100 days)

Warning: Handling this pepper requires extreme caution. Wear hand, eye and breathing protection.

Heat Level: Extreme, Severe and Intense. Scoville Heat Units 1,000,000

Packet contains 10 seeds.

In early spring, start seeds indoors 8 weeks prior to warm nightly temperatures. Place the seeds in sterile media and cover 1/4” deep. Provide 85°F bottom heat, bright light and keep moist at all times. Seeds will germinate in 7 – 21 days. Transplant seedlings into pots and grow until there are 6 true leaves on the plant. Plant them directly into rich soil, 30” apart or into large 5 gallon containers. Harvest chiles when they are red and glowing.