wanted LOOKING FOR "SAFI" RED scotch bonnet

ajijoe

ajijoe

HELLO ALL

im looking for African "SAFI" RED scotch bonnet seeds (BOTH SPECIES)

i have a friend who is looking to appeal to his African customers this coming season and i suggested Safi S.B.

i anyone willing to trade? :whistle: as most of you know i have an extensive list i can send, i am willing to match you seed for seed
:whistle: i need anywhere between 50 to 100 of each, however if anyone has just a few i still would be willing to trade

if you have these species in the quantity i need please contact me and i will send my list

thanks so much your friend Joe
 
Hey Aji forward me a few details about these and i`ll see what I can do.Have a friend in,Kenya ,zambia and nigeria .Let me know if I can Help. Rich
 
hixs said:
Hey Aji forward me a few details about these and i`ll see what I can do.Have a friend in,Kenya ,zambia and nigeria .Let me know if I can Help. Rich
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i beleve they are from west africa they look much like a regular hab except a little larger and very scalloped

that what i know about it

thank you friend joe
 
From what I've read its a Scotch Bonnet variety, I only heard about a red Safi. It's orginally coming from Marocco. I have it but not in that quantity, I asked my source but they ran out, sorry.
 
I don't think I have many of these seed left but I'll check
I don't believe they are habs or bonnets, especially since they originated in Africa and have their own unique flavor
 
meatfreak said:
From what I've read its a Scotch Bonnet variety, I only heard about a red Safi. It's orginally coming from Marocco. I have it but not in that quantity, I asked my source but they ran out, sorry.
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thanks
i do appreciate any you have if you wanna trade for as many as you have let me know

thanks your friend Joe
 
hello i realized i made 2 mistakes when i posted this thread

#1> it is a Scotch Bonnet species and not a Habanero

#2> there is no "safi yellow", i really dont know where i went wrong here except i thought i saw it and wanted to throw it in as a surprise for my friend

thanks to all
if anyone has just a few i SAFI RED I STILL WOULD BE WILLING TO TRADE

thanks your friend Joe
 
Sorry, no extra seeds :(
People like to label these as either bonnets or habaneros but IMO they were likely just one of several Caribbean C. chinenses brought back to africa by slaves, where they eventually evolved into the Safi we know today. Sort of like the fatalii but fortunately not many people call them fatalii habs or fatalii Scotch bonnets
 
There is guy that lives near me, last year he was growing a red scotch bonnet type pepper from Angola, Africa. He was calling the pepper by the native name of cahombo. This guy was born and raised in S. Africa.

Anybody familiar with the name cahombo?
 
After some searching I found the following:

Variety resident of the provinces of Luanda and Benguela, Cávado Valley neighborhood, located northwest and west of Angola.
Very strong and productive, grows 90 inches tall by 60 inches wide.
Prefers hot and humid climates, typical of tropical forests, with deep soil, loose and well drained and rich in organic matter with pH between 6.6 and 7.6, although easier to live with less favored since the temperatures remain high. The flowers, pedicel inclined at anthesis, arise in number from 1 to 3 per node, with greenish-yellow corolla! Without spots at the base of the lobes of the petals, and anthers of blue!.
Fruits, pendants, shaped round or slightly oblong, but always irregular, with dimensions of 2.5 x 2.3 cm. Appear in appreciable amounts, leaving the plant is beautiful.
With the surface somewhat irregular-shaped leaves have dark green (immature), which is gradually bright orange and deep red (ripe). They are very aromatic, the flavor of the Habaneros typically mixed with a touch wild, identified as smelling of goat, hence the name ("kahombo" = goat). Given its characteristic smell, the hot pepper cahombo reluctant-to-many.
However, it is very tasty and the food reflects his deep, exotic aroma, flavor with such wild delights of his admirers and simultaneously so deeply rejected by his detractors. Each fruit contains an average of 30
cream-colored seeds, which germinate in a period of 10 to 18 days. The harvest is abundant, begins 160 days after sowing to ripe fruit.
In your area, is used in the preparation of fresh sauces used to flavor various dishes, such as the characteristic "crow's stash" the Angolan.​

It's translated from Portugese so could have some mistakes in it.

Sorry, Joe I got only 8 seeds left. I can grow it this season but that means you have to wait till the end of this season :banghead: I do know where you can order them...
 
armac said:
There is guy that lives near me, last year he was growing a red scotch bonnet type pepper from Angola, Africa. He was calling the pepper by the native name of cahombo. This guy was born and raised in S. Africa.
meatfreak said:
After some searching I found the following:

Variety resident of the provinces of Luanda and Benguela, Cávado Valley neighborhood, located northwest and west of Angola.
Very strong and productive, grows 90 inches tall by 60 inches wide.
Prefers hot and humid climates, typical of tropical forests, with deep soil, loose and well drained and rich in organic matter with pH between 6.6 and 7.6, although easier to live with less favored since the temperatures remain high. The flowers, pedicel inclined at anthesis, arise in number from 1 to 3 per node, with greenish-yellow corolla! Without spots at the base of the lobes of the petals, and anthers of blue!.
Fruits, pendants, shaped round or slightly oblong, but always irregular, with dimensions of 2.5 x 2.3 cm. Appear in appreciable amounts, leaving the plant is beautiful.
With the surface somewhat irregular-shaped leaves have dark green (immature), which is gradually bright orange and deep red (ripe). They are very aromatic, the flavor of the Habaneros typically mixed with a touch wild, identified as smelling of goat, hence the name ("kahombo" = goat). Given its characteristic smell, the hot pepper cahombo reluctant-to-many.
However, it is very tasty and the food reflects his deep, exotic aroma, flavor with such wild delights of his admirers and simultaneously so deeply rejected by his detractors. Each fruit contains an average of 30
cream-colored seeds, which germinate in a period of 10 to 18 days. The harvest is abundant, begins 160 days after sowing to ripe fruit.
In your area, is used in the preparation of fresh sauces used to flavor various dishes, such as the characteristic "crow's stash" the Angolan.​

It's translated from Portugese so could have some mistakes in it.

Sorry, Joe I got only 8 seeds left. I can grow it this season but that means you have to wait till the end of this season :banghead: I do know where you can order them...
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thanks for the reminder the people requesting them where from Angola, if you can get some before early march that would be great

thanks your friend Joe

Anybody familiar with the name cahombo?
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that name may have came up in my original conversaion with the african people, cant remember anymore
they where in fact from Angola, thanks Stefan i appreciate the shout out it reminded me where they where from

POTAWIE said:
Sorry, no extra seeds :(
People like to label these as either bonnets or habaneros but IMO they were likely just one of several Caribbean C. chinenses brought back to africa by slaves, where they eventually evolved into the Safi we know today. Sort of like the fatalii but fortunately not many people call them fatalii habs or fatalii Scotch bonnets
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thanks for the shout out just the same check the below replys to armac and meatfreak they will answer the question, they are apparently a scotch bonnet

thanks your friend Joe
 
I still don't think it can be a scotch bonnet, which is a specific Caribbean pepper with a specific shape and flavor. There are lots of hab-nots and bon-nots out there, its just easier to say and understand then to explain all about C. chinenses
I've got 5 seeds left and no room to grow them this year so they're yours if you want them Joe, I just may not be able to mail them for a week or so
 
POTAWIE said:
I still don't think it can be a scotch bonnet, which is a specific Caribbean pepper with a specific shape and flavor. There are lots of hab-nots and bon-nots out there, its just easier to say and understand then to explain all about C. chinenses
I've got 5 seeds left and no room to grow them this year so they're yours if you want them Joe, I just may not be able to mail them for a week or so
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yes i will take them what do you wanna do trade-wise let me know
they sure could be Scotch Bonnets considering they where REPUTED to have been brought to the carribean by slavers and slaves from west africa all over africa by others
( SUCH AS THE DUTCH,PORTUGESE AND ENGLISH) the old saying holds true "that there is some truth to myth"

OR THE SAFI COULD VERY WELL HAVE BEEN BROUGHT TO AFRICA FIRST FROM S. AMERICA (BOLIVIA PERHAPS?) AND THEN BROUGHT TO THE CARRIBEAN odd but could be true? bottom line its hard to say for sure, but 2 things are for sure they are CHINENCE and they bere a striking resemblence to scotch bonnets, im not sure what else they could be other than an S.B. or a Hab??

thanks your friend Joe
 
It could be any of hundreds of different C. chinenses. I personally don't see the resemlance to Bonnets at all.
"A Grade A Scotch bonnet is expected to:have a cup and saucer shape or look like a Scottish man's bonnet (tam)
  • have four or five lobes
  • be 1.5 inches wide
  • have a stalk no longer than 1 1/4 inches long"
http://www.fiery-foods.com/chiles-around-the-world/76-caribbean/88-the-scotch-bonnet-peppers-of-jamaica


Even if it was a true bonnet when it first come from the Caribbean, it is after being grown in Africa for many many years that it became the unique Safi we know.

I'm not worried about trade just PM me your address.
 
Well this topic got me very curious about this variety, I think I'm gonna add it too my growlist since a couple of other varieties didnt germinate at all. When I traded it was named only Safi.
 
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