A cross between the Naga Morich and Trinidad 7 Pot, The 7 Pot Primo has a fruity/floral flavor. It was named by Neil Smith from The Hippy Seed Company, after he got the seeds originally from Taylor who was responsible for propagating the pepper’s seeds. It is indigenous to Trinidad and Tobago but was cultivated in Butch Taylor in Crosby, Mississippi. The Trinidad scorpion pepper is a Capsicum chinense cultivar that is among the most piquant peppers in the world.

Trinidad Scorpion “Butch T” ~ 1,463,700 SHU It is claimed to be an unstable three-way hybrid produced from the Naga Morich, the Bhut jolokia and the Trinidad scorpion, some of the world’s hottest peppers. The Naga Viper was created in England by chili farmer Gerald Fowler of The Chili Pepper Company. Think you can handle it? Try our very own Small Axe’s Ghost Peppers sauce for yourself. Some of the world’s spiciest peppers, in fact. With over a million SHU, these peppers are hot. The Bhut jolokia, also known as ghost pepper, ghost chili and ghost jolokia, is an interspecific hybrid chili pepper cultivated in the Northeast Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland and Manipur. Ghost Pepper (Bhut Jolokia) ~ 1,041,427 SHU It has a nice fruity flavor along with considerable heat. In Trinidad, they are used in military grade tear gas and marine paint, which prevents barnacles.Ĭoming in at number on this list is this 7 Pot variety, which comes from the region of Barrackpore on the Caribbean Island of Trinidad.

The name refers to the saying that it is hot enough to spice 7 pots of stew. There are a few different versions, including the Yellow 7-Pot, the 7-Pot Jonah, and the Chocolate, or 7-Pot Douglah.

Well, as the only internationally recognized unit of measure, SHU has become the standard and according to its formula, here are the 8 spiciest peppers in the world. Google even commemorated Scoville on his 151st birthday with this homepage in 2016.

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