I Review The Trinidad 7 Pot Yellow - What An Insane, Beautiful and Aromatic Beast!

georgej

georgej

First super hot review this year - what a way to start!
one of the craziest and most flavourful chillies i have ever tried! to the point that the aroma is so intense it made me gag.
Ripping heat. But that aroma is something out of this world.

Thanks Nagachomper for the seeds - this is from a plant i over wintered, you weren' joking that these yellow 7s are intense!  

Hope you enjoy!
Feedback always appreciated, i always try to improve.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKzKQVoGw0E[/youtube]
 
Great review. That's my favorite pepper by far.
 
Actually, I paused the vid after a couple minutes, ran out and grabbed a Y7 pod from the garden, and ate it while I watched the rest of the review. Good stuff!
 
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i love this chilli. will never swallow one whole again. the flavour is overwhelming.

aftertaste was with me for an hour roughly. beautiful flavour!
 
Nice job! One of my favorites this year as well, although I must say yours look way cooler (or should I say hotter), real nice yellow color to them. Mine look very similar to my Yellow Brain Strains, almost can't tell them apart. Makes me wonder if I have the true TS Yellow now.
 
A "Yellow Brainstrain" is not something new and/or different than what has been known as a 7 Pot Yellow for years. Of course there is pod variation on each plant, but there has always been a "bumpy" version (which I consider true), and a smoother version of Yellow 7's. "Yellow Brainstrain" is simply a new name given to the "bumpy" version.
 
muskymojo said:
A "Yellow Brainstrain" is not something new and/or different than what has been known as a 7 Pot Yellow for years. Of course there is pod variation on each plant, but there has always been a "bumpy" version (which I consider true), and a smoother version of Yellow 7's. "Yellow Brainstrain" is simply a new name given to the "bumpy" version.
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Wow, thanks for the info I had no idea. So I have a bumpy version of Yellow Brainstrain and bumpy version of 7 pot Yellow (mine where marked 7 pot Brainstrain and TS Yellow Moruga - both seed packets from Semillas) and from what you say they are the same pepper. That would answer a lot. I do seem to get the occasional tail from the ones marked TS Yellow Moruga, but for the most part these two peppers look identical. I really like the looks of Georges smoother version. I wonder where I can get seeds for those. Would the vendors distinguish them as the smooth type, or is it more luck of the draw?
 
SL3 said:
Wow, thanks for the info I had no idea. So I have a bumpy version of Yellow Brainstrain and bumpy version of 7 pot Yellow (mine where marked 7 pot Brainstrain and TS Yellow Moruga - both seed packets from Semillas) and from what you say they are the same pepper. That would answer a lot. I do seem to get the occasional tail from the ones marked TS Yellow Moruga, but for the most part these two peppers look identical. I really like the looks of Georges smoother version. I wonder where I can get seeds for those. Would the vendors distinguish them as the smooth type, or is it more luck of the draw?
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I don't really know anything about the yellow moruga or it's orgin, and never said it was the same as yellow 7's.
 
I'm just saying there was a very bumpy 7 pot yellow around before anyone heard of a yellow brainstrain. I grow the very bumpy yellow 7's every year (my favorite pepper), and when I originally got the seed it was simply called 7 pot yellow.
 
This is an old pic from before there was such a thing as a yellow brainstrain:
 

 
All of my plants looked like this, and they still do. It wasn't just one plant that looked like this.
 
This is the description of brainstrain yellow from Pepperlover.com:
"This is a Yellow version of the red brain Strain we have been developing this Strain for over 3 years of selecting and reselecting. The mother plant was sent to us by our Trinidadian friend Sara Ragonanan she marked the seeds as Trinidad 7 pod SR Yellow. Among all the plants, we have noticed that this particular plant produces what looked like the Red Brian Strain discovered by David Cappiello from NC. Pod size, shape, even heat seems to be very similar except the yellow one smells and tastes like a mixture of pineapple and 7pod together which will make great yellow homemade hot sauce . When u cut the pod u can actually see the placenta full of capsicum oil. One of the hottest if not the hottest yellow variety there is it defiantly worth trying if you like to have extremely hot 7pod taste, with topical fruity  taste"
 
You can see from the description that it's not a crazy new cross or anything. A 7 pot yellow plant had bumpy pods that resembled a red brainstrain, so it was simply renamed as a yellow brainstrain (with Cappy's permission). I'm not saying it's right or wrong, or ripping on Judy in any way (she's great). I'm just telling you what I know about the pepper.
 
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muskymojo said:
 
I don't really know anything about the yellow moruga or it's orgin, and never said it was the same as yellow 7's.
 
I'm just saying there was a very bumpy 7 pot yellow around before anyone heard of a yellow brainstrain. I grow the very bumpy yellow 7's every year (my favorite pepper), and when I originally got the seed it was simply called 7 pot yellow.
 
This is an old pic from before there was such a thing as a yellow brainstrain:
 

 
All of my plants looked like this, and they still do. It wasn't just one plant that looked like this.
 
This is the description of brainstrain yellow from Pepperlover.com:
"This is a Yellow version of the red brain Strain we have been developing this Strain for over 3 years of selecting and reselecting. The mother plant was sent to us by our Trinidadian friend Sara Ragonanan she marked the seeds as Trinidad 7 pod SR Yellow. Among all the plants, we have noticed that this particular plant produces what looked like the Red Brian Strain discovered by David Cappiello from NC. Pod size, shape, even heat seems to be very similar except the yellow one smells and tastes like a mixture of pineapple and 7pod together which will make great yellow homemade hot sauce . When u cut the pod u can actually see the placenta full of capsicum oil. One of the hottest if not the hottest yellow variety there is it defiantly worth trying if you like to have extremely hot 7pod taste, with topical fruity  taste"
 
You can see from the description that it's not a crazy new cross or anything. A 7 pot yellow plant had bumpy pods that resembled a red brainstrain, so it was simply renamed as a yellow brainstrain (with Cappy's permission). I'm not saying it's right or wrong, or ripping on Judy in any way (she's great). I'm just telling you what I know about the pepper.
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Nice looking pod. Much more textured than mine. Here is a comparison of the two varieties I have growing. As you can see not much difference between the two. Pods are getting more orange in color due to the heat we're experiencing right now, otherwise they stay mostly yellow. 
 


 
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