Gardeners World Hot Stuff Chilli Seeds

Naga Morich

This is the parent seed of the Dorset Naga

The Naga Morich 'snake or serpent chilli' is one of the world's most respected chillies. A recent sample of fresh fruit of the rare Bangladeshi Naga Morich chilli was tested by Warwick University using HPLC and registered a tongue numbing 1,598,227 Scoville Heat Units (SHU).

To compare the Naga with the Bhut a HPLC test would need to be carried out on a dry sample as for the Worldwide Standard Sampling Techniques as was used to test the Bhut Jolokia. The figures for a test carried out under the standard test situations are showing that the comparable heat is around the 800,000 to 900,000 SHU. These original Naga Morich seeds have not been grown by gardeners at home, these are the genuine Naga Morich. Naga Morich is the closest relative to the Dorset Naga.

Currently Naga Morich seeds are scarce, and Naga seeds with proven provenance are even scarcer still. Our Naga Morich seeds come from certificated germination and heat tested stock. (Capsicum Chinense)
£4 for 10 seeds

10 seeds £4.00

5 seeds £2.50

Super Chilli

Chilli Heat level 8
It is easy to grow: it germinates quickly and yields exceptionally well. As it matures, its colour changes from green to red. It's very hot to the taste when ripe. Use it as an ornamental plant, a hybrid plant or a compact plant. The pod size is 1 inch by 1/2 inch.

Aji Yellow : Aji Amarillo

Chilli Heat 5
This chilli is very productive and has very aromatic fruits (Capsicum baccatum)

 

Piri Piri

Chilli Heat 7
Piri Piri meaning pepper pepper in Swahili

 

 

 

Orange Habanero

Chilli Heat Level 8
Our orange habanero seeds tested by Gardeners' World Trial at 487,672 Scoville Heat Units, Heat Level 10+++ This seed is Certified Organic. The Habanero is one of the world's hottest and most renowned chillies. For the uninitiated even a tiny piece of Habanero would cause intense and very prolonged oral suffering. Underneath the heat is a delicate plum-tomato apple-like flavour. Grown in Mexico and the Caribbean. It has an irregular spheroid shape, with a small point, and is around 1 inch to 1-1/2 inch long. It is available in orange, green, yellow, scarlet, brown and deep red. It has a number of close relatives such as Scotch Bonnet and Rocoto. It is used mainly raw because it loses subtlety, but not heat, when cooked. The Habanero when ripe or dried and powdered has a unique apricot scent. (Capsicum Chinense)

Naga Jolokia

Chilli Heat Level ???
This striking and very useful chilli from Assam an area in India close to the famous city of Tezpur, renowned for bringing us some of the hottest varieties around. 21/2" chillies, The chilli has a cited heat level of 855,000 SHU but it is very doubtful it holds this much heat!!!!  Probably it would be closer to 100,000 SHU if, that. Lots of seed suppliers call it Naga Jolokia by mistake.  According to our informed local experts, the chilli tested with a heat level of 855,000 SHU was actually the Bhut Jolokia which in some parts of India is called Naga Jolokia, Naga being an area and Jolokia meaning Pepper or chilli.  This was the chilli tested with a recorded heat level of 855,000 SHU.  Indian PC-1 is a Capsicum annuum. As you can see from the photographs, the Indian PC-1 chilli (AMKA also mistakenly known as the Naga Jolokia) actually bears no resemblance to the Capsicum Chinense family to which all the hottest varieties belong. This is no reason not to grow it but please do not mistake it for the similarly named but much hotter Bhut/Bih Jolokia.
You could always grow it and prove us wrong J
£3 for 10 seeds

Chocolate Habanero

450,000 ++++ Scoville Heat Units (SHU)
Heat Level 10++++
Studies by New Mexico State University says this chilli is one of the hottest chillies in the world. It derives its name from its brownish colour. 1.5 to 2.5 inches long by 1.5 to 2 inches wide. Matures from green to chocolate brown. (Capsicum Chinense)

Serrano

Larger and longer than other Serrano and with a unique spicy flavour. Capsicum annuum
Heat Level 5

 

Birdseye Chilli

Birds Eye, 150,000-200,000 SHU, Heat Level 8+
This Chilli is a Birds Eye (Capsicum frutescens) and is a very hot pepper. These are found all over Africa, where they are also called, Congo, Mombassa, Pequin, Uganda and Zanzibar chillies. They are very small conical chillies' ranging from has small, slightly tapered fruit with a length of 1 to 2 cm and a diameter of 0.50 cm. They grow wild or semi-wild and are bright scarlet red. Used a lot in Asian and Thai cooking. Ideal chilli for drying and using as chilli powder. Also ideal for drying and infusing with olive oil for a salad dressing with some kick. Easy to grow and very nice shape. The fruit, when threaded into Ristras, dries well and makes a beautiful decoration around the kitchen. A must have chilli, can be trimmed to suit growing conditions.

Pimiento Padron

Chilli Heat 4 but every 1 in 10 pods are hotter
One of the best all rounders on the market.
This is a great all round chilli to have in the kitchen, it is a medium-sized, bushy plant. Medium to long flat, conical light green fruits, turning red when ripe. Meaty and very tasty. Classic Tapas variety from Galicia in Spain, pan fried in olive oil, sea salt and served with beer, what could be better!

Gardeners World Hot Stuff Aji Lemon Drop

Heat Level 8++
Lovely crisp yellow chilli, perfect to add heat and taste to any dish. These 1-1/2 to 2" long by 1/2 to 3/4" wide wrinkled fruits mature to a bright yellow. Ideal to freeze for use all year. They have a nice lemon flavour. This chilli is very prolific and is ideal for over wintering and growing successfully the following year with a very good harvest. (C.baccatum)

 

Red Scotch Bonnet Caribbean Antillais

Heat Level is 9-10
The Scotch Bonnet is not the same chilli as the Habanero they are of the same species but the Scotch Bonnet is not a Cultivar. The Scotch Bonnet has a different shape - one which closely resembles a Scot's bonnet - so it is very easy to differentiate the two. It grows mainly in the Caribbean islands while the Habanero grows mainly in Latin and North American. The flavour of the two, however, is very similar as is their heat Level. The Scotch Bonnet Red is 1 to 1-1/2 inches in diameter, is irregularly shaped. Some say the flavour is even more tropical and fruity than the Habanero. It is great for salsas and sauces. (Capsicum Chinense).

Joe E Parker

For authentic Santa Fe green or red chilli sauces, use this improved, premium NuMex 6-4 version with higher yields. Peppers are tapering, 6-7 inch long, thick fleshed pods that mature from bright green to red. Used at either stage, they have thick crispy flesh and their lively flavour is mild. The 2-2 1/2 foot plants are early and extraordinarily fruitful, producing twice the yield of any other NuMex variety.

 

 

 

 

 

Hungarian Hot

Heat Level 7
This is a fantastic looking and tasting chilli, I have it growing on my desk! Plant grows about 2 to 3 ft with an upright habit it is from Europe. Matures from green to yellowish green to bright red. The chilli grows up to 6" in length and 2" in diameter. Eaten in its red state, it is a 7 on the heat scale, but in its yellow form it is hottish with a sweet and succulent taste and is ideal for stuffing. This is an ideal chilli to add to a dish mixed with a hot chilli so you have the heat and lots of chilli flavour. (Capsicum annuum)

Tabasco

Heat Level 7
The principal ingredient in the most famous hot sauce in the world, and central to Creole cooking. Tabasco chillies have a unique, dry/hot smoky taste combined with fiery pungency for unbeatable flavour. These small, pointed chillies grow on branching plants. Each plant can bear 100 erect little chilli pods that colour up from yellow to orange to red. Rightfully famous, Tabasco’s smoky hot flavour is fantastic and not to be missed. (Capsicum frutescens)

10 Seeds Only

Jalapeno

Heat Level of 6
This chilli is well adapted for the UK short-season growing, Jalapeno chilli pepper seeds
Peppers are among the most popular and commonly available hot chilli pepper seeds
s in the world. Smooth, dark green chilli peppers the ripe form of the green Jalapeno is red. Jalapenos are about 2 inches long and approximately 3/4 to 1 inch thick with a rounded tip. Jalapenos are found in a broad range of Latin dishes. Ranging from hot to very hot with a green vegetable flavour, Jalapenos can be easily seeded and added to soups, stews and dips or enjoyed whole when roasted with meats or stuffed with cheese. Red Jalapenos have a sweeter flavour and are often pickled or smoked. (Capsicum annuum)

Ring of Fire

Heat Level is 6
Ring of Fire, Cayenne type chilli this is ideal for drying and grinding into powder. 4 inch long thin chillies, red when ripe after 80 days. Very abundant 2 foot plants form a perfect shape. (Capsicum annuum)

 

 

 

Cherry Bomb

Chilli Heat Level 7+++
A great tasting chilli and perfect for barbeques and parties. 1.5 to 2" wide mature to bright red.

 

NuMex Twilight

Heat Level 8
RHS Plant of the month
These striking plants with their brilliant coloured hot spicy fruits. Plants are soon covered with vivid purple blossoms followed by big bursts of pointed, one inch long, glossy little purple chillies that slowly mature to orange then brilliant red. These plants are ideal in pots and to give as presents to friends, family or loved ones. (Capsicum annuum)

Helping you get the best from your seeds.
We have recently completed trials germinating a selection of our very hot chilli seeds. We grew a tray with seeds soaked in our germination solution and a tray without and found a 50% increase in germination success rate.

Chilli seeds can be hard to germinate at the best of times, our germination solution is available to help you get the best from germinating your seeds.
Germination Powder £1.20