BOC x 7 Pot Brain Strain

BOC x 7 Pot Brain Strain, also seen as BOC Brain and later listed by one seed seller as BOC x Brian Strain, is a superhot Capsicum chinense hybrid made from Bhut Orange Copenhagen and 7 Pot Brainstrain. Public grower records show it in circulation by September 2016, when it was reviewed on The Hot Pepper as BOC Brain and described as a Bhut Orange Copenhagen crossed with 7-Pot Brainstrain. The same line was also being sold in pod boxes that month and again in October 2016 by grower 96strat, and it appeared in his 2017 grow list as BOC Brain, showing that it had already become part of specialist grower circulation by that period.

The variety is defined by the combination of its two parents. Bhut Orange Copenhagen contributes the shorter, broader orange Bhut type with strong fruity character and the standard green-to-orange ripening pattern, while 7 Pot Brain Strain contributes the heavily wrinkled, brain-like surface, dense placental tissue, and extreme superhot heat profile. A public pod review described BOC Brain as having good flavour and heat, but leaning more toward the BOC side than the Brain Strain side, which fits the way the line is named and circulated.

The pods are presented as very hot, large, and strongly textured. In the 2016 review, the tested pod was described as huge and weighed 14 grams, and later seed-listing text described the line as an excellent cross with very hot pods and very good flavour, with plants that grow very fast. Taken together, the public record presents BOC x 7 Pot Brain Strain as a grower-circulated orange superhot hybrid with green foliage, large heavily wrinkled brainy pods, strong Bhut Orange Copenhagen influence in flavour and overall character, and a heat level that sits solidly in the upper superhot range.