Aji Charapita

Ají Charapita is a hot wild Capsicum chinense variety from Peru. Their plants grow in bushes and produce very high yields of pea-sized, dark yellow pods with an excellent flavor. In Austria, the dried version is traded as “the most expensive chili in the world”. However, if you grow this variety yourself and dry the pods, the cost per dried pod will be far below those record-breaking prices. Since this is a wild variety, germination may take a little longer. Make sure that your substrate never dries out during the long germination period and that the ambient temperature is constantly at around 83°F.