I'm growing both outdoors and in an unheated high tunnel on an island in the PNW, and looking for some suggestions on Chinenses that have strong flavor and relatively short time to maturity or at least do well in our cool weather.
I really want to find both a seasoning pepper variety or two and a scotch bonnet variety (or equivalent heat and flavor) that will do well.
On the Chinense front, this year I grew Trinidad Perfume and was really impressed with the flavor, but the plants were small and fairly low yielding, and also pretty slow.
I also grew Red Mushroom from Territorial Seed, which grew really well, produced early and heavily, but wasn't particularly flavorful and also was a bit on the low side for heat.
I didn't even try to do scotch bonnets because I had a friend who grew some in her tunnel a few years ago and only had 1 pod mature before the end of the season, but may also have been that she didn't get them started early enough as she mostly grows faster annuums for market.
Anyway, wondering if anyone has any recommendations of specific varieties of either seasoning type peppers or hot peppers that seem to be better suited to this climate.
I really want to find both a seasoning pepper variety or two and a scotch bonnet variety (or equivalent heat and flavor) that will do well.
On the Chinense front, this year I grew Trinidad Perfume and was really impressed with the flavor, but the plants were small and fairly low yielding, and also pretty slow.
I also grew Red Mushroom from Territorial Seed, which grew really well, produced early and heavily, but wasn't particularly flavorful and also was a bit on the low side for heat.
I didn't even try to do scotch bonnets because I had a friend who grew some in her tunnel a few years ago and only had 1 pod mature before the end of the season, but may also have been that she didn't get them started early enough as she mostly grows faster annuums for market.
Anyway, wondering if anyone has any recommendations of specific varieties of either seasoning type peppers or hot peppers that seem to be better suited to this climate.