This chilli is nice and early with loads of heat. We bred this hot cherry pepper ourselves, from an early fruiting variety collected in Iran in 1944.
The tall plants soon set lots of spherical bright red fruit about an inch across - just the size of a cherry tomato - but much, much spicier. Ideal for using fresh or drying.
The original seed collected in 1944 was supposedly sweet - but when we grew it out, we had a real shock when we munched the first one as they were ALL ferociously hot. It was a very good chilli pepper, just mis-labelled on the original collecting expedition.
We liked the round ones best, so selected for that shape, carried on breeding, and ended up with this variety. (We have also learnt to nibble cautiously on any new, so-called 'sweet' pepper we try out!)
Very prolific - bushy 2' tall plants soon set lots and lots of 1" diameter chillies
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