The Armageddon chili pepper is a chili pepper variety, it is the world's first superhot
F1 hybrid
F1 hybrid (also known as filial 1 hybrid) is the first filial generation of offspring of distinctly different parental types. F1 hybrids are used in genetics, and in selective breeding, where the term F1 crossbreed may be used. The term is somet ...
of ''
C. chinense''. The variety was created by Tozer Seeds and first grown by Salvatore Genovese.
The Armageddon pepper was introduced to the UK market in 2019. The pepper holds a rating of 1.3 million
SHU (Scoville Heating Units).
Development and distribution
Armageddon is the world's first F1 hybrid of ''C. Chinense'', one of the ‘Super Hot’ chilies,
the fruity-flavored pepper was cultivated to be a quick growing, high yielding and easily harvested pepper, making it a leading candidate for the growing of 'Super Hots' at
scale. In 2019, the first commercial grower of the Armageddon promoted it as "...the hottest commercially grown chili in the UK..." although the heat level was well below the then
Guinness World Records
''Guinness World Records'', known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as ''The Guinness Book of Records'' and in previous United States editions as ''The Guinness Book of World Records'', is a British reference book published annually, list ...
individual pepper heat leaders, the
Naga Viper
The Naga Viper pepper is a hot chili pepper developed in England. In 2011, it was recorded as the "World's Hottest Chili" by the ''Guinness World Records'' with a rating of 1,382,118 Scoville heat units (SHU), but was surpassed in SHU by the ...
,
Trinidad Scorpion Butch T pepper
The Trinidad Scorpion Butch T is a ''Capsicum chinense'' cultivar that is among the hottest peppers in the world. It is a hybrid pepper and thus not indigenous to anywhere; however, its hybrid parentage is derived from the Trinidad Moruga ...
, and the
Carolina Reaper
The Carolina Reaper chili pepper is a cultivar of the ''Capsicum chinense'' plant. Developed by American breeder Ed Currie, the pepper is red and gnarled, with a bumpy texture and small pointed tail. It was the hottest chili pepper in the worl ...
.
Appearance and pungency
The Armageddon plant spreads to an average width of 1.5 feet, and grows to an average height of 2.5 feet. One plant will produce fruits up to 2" long, that require up to 75 days to reach maturity, much quicker than that of the Carolina Reaper. The Armageddon pepper has been classified as 'Exceptionally Hot', and is rated on the Scoville heat scale at 1.3 million units, which is about 400 times hotter than the typical
jalapeño pepper rating.
[; article; The Chili Expert online; thechilliexpert.com; accessed December 2023][''Burpee's New ‘Armageddon’ Pepper is Only for the Bravest of Vegetable Gardeners''](_blank)
Stallsmith, Audrey; Updated Mar 11, 2021; online article; Bob Vila Home Advice Website; retrieved December 2023
See also
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Hottest chili pepper
Notes
References
External links
''GMB Crew Try the Armageddon'' Good Morning Britain segment on the Armageddon pepper
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Chili peppers
Capsicum cultivars