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heat TOP 10 HOTTEST PEPPERS

Hey everybody starting to plan or begin grow list for next season.Just want to get opinions on what you all believe are the top ten hottest peppers in the world.Thankyou.
 
carolina reaper
moruga scorp
butch t scorp
brainstrain
douglah
 
tons of hybrids
butchlah
bhutlah
choc brainstrain
brazil ghost brainstrain
 
 
etc
 
juanitos said:
carolina reaper
moruga scorp
butch t scorp
brainstrain
douglah
 
then tons of hybrids
butchlah
bhutlah
choc brainstrain
brazil ghost brainstrain
 
 
etc
probably splitting hairs, but every one of them is a hybrid/cross
 
fire in the hole
had a ghost and that is as hot as I have tried I cant think of trying a flame thrower
Best wishes Tazz Tx
 
Aleppo
Bishop's Crown
Aji Pineapple
Fatalii or Devils Tongue
Jamaican Hot Chocolate
Biker Billy Jalapeño 
Paper Lantern
Carolina Reaper
Bahamian Goat
de Arbol
Tabasco
 
Eeeeeeee! said:
Aleppo
Bishop's Crown
Aji Pineapple
Fatalii or Devils Tongue
Jamaican Hot Chocolate
Biker Billy Jalapeño 
Paper Lantern
Carolina Reaper
Bahamian Goat
de Arbol
Tabasco
I realize superlatives like "hottest" are somewhat subjective, but objectively speaking, some of these don't belong in the "hottest" category (though they make for a more diverse garden).
 
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UrbanNoir75 said:
I realize superlatives like "hottest" are somewhat subjective, but objectively speaking, some of these don't belong in the "hottest" category (though they make for a more diverse garden).
Very well put, my response would have been "Yeah, nah"..
 
Juanitos nailed a lot of them, and as I mentioned before, superlative lists can be confounded by subjectivity arguments (e.g. what one guy thinks is the hottest, someone else thinks is child's play, and everything in between). This is further complicated by untested cultivars, and variations in cultivation techniques. Two growers could use the same seeds, and get different heat from their end product thanks to variables like soil, watering, oxygen, humidity, harvest timing, etc. Worse still, you have varying qualities of seeds among the same strains. One person could have a Bhut Jolokia pod that feels like a Red Savina Habanero heat-wise, and another could have one from high quality stock and the heat feels record breaking. The inability to account for these variables can be confounding, so it's best to get your seeds from well established top sources.

Some will probably quibble over the ordering of these, or want to knock a few off the list, and it is inexact, but it's close in my mind due to limited first hand experience, and/or consensus from the scene. That all said, objectively speaking, asuming all requisite conditionsand variables are accounted for, I think it's probably something like this:
 
  1. Chocolate Bhutlah/ or Bhutlah (these are unstable but worth a nod at this point)
  2. Chocolate Brain Strain (Also unstable but has been consistently hot)
  3. Trinidad Moruga Scorpion
  4. Carolina Reaper (I put this lower because there's a lower chance of you getting your hands on Ed Currie's testing grade seed stock)
  5. Trinidad Scorpion Butch T
  6. 7 Pot Douglah
  7. 7 Pot Brain Strain
  8. 7 Pot Bubblegum and 7 Pot Primo
  9. 7 Pot Jonah
  10. 7 Pot Barrackpore and Naga Viper
Unstable and theoreticals (these may wind up on this list eventually):
  • Black Lava 7 Pot
  • Defcon 7
  • Borg 9
Grow most of these things in your garden if you want to open an organic driveway cleaning business, or you're a slightly unstable chilehead like the rest of us. Just don't have a fire start in your backyard. You might kill your neighbors and their pets.

 
 
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That is very insightful thanks for the input ive been checking out the forum a little bit.Theres so much info. I had no idea.What is the borg9?
 
mpicante said:
Hey everybody starting to plan or begin grow list for next season.Just want to get opinions on what you all believe are the top ten hottest peppers in the world.Thankyou.
Judy's brown moruga should be there in the top 10!!
 
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