Kirchhoffs Pepper Trinidad Scorpion

KIRCHHOFFS PEPPER TRINIDAD SCORPION

The Trinidad Scorpion is an extremely hot chilli variety. Trinidad Scorpions ripen from green to yellow and then red. The heat levels increase as the fruit matures. Peppers are between 4 and 7cm long, and 3cm wide. They have a distinctive plumpy shape with a tail resembling that of a scorpion.

The Scoville rating for Trinidad Scorpion peppers is between 1,200 000 and just over 2 000 000 Scoville units. They are extremely hot peppers and can be more than 30 times hotter than a Cayenne Pepper. The Trinidad Scorpion Pepper was listed by the Guinness World Records as the hottest pepper in the world between 2011 and 2013. Since then the Scorpion was dethroned by peppers like the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion and the Carolina Reaper and Pepper X.

The plants prefer warmer conditions where temperatures reach between 20 and 35 °C. They don’t tolerate frost very well.