I picked up a random pod from a basket full of all sorts of C.Chinense peppers at this Caribbean grocery store downtown. Looked like a red Scotch Bonnet with a curved scorpion tail, very strange looking indeed. Well, I broke the pepper open and planted 2 seeds in beer cups. This was back in fall of 2010. A year later and my plants are big and beautiful, and here I have pics from summer of 2011!
To this date, I still do not know what exact variety I have there. All I know is that they're hotter than normal Habaneros, have a very Scotch Bonnet -like taste, and 9/10 times have fetuses inside which makes them twice as hot, as it's often like eating two peppers in a bite. Cool, huh?
I should also mention that these sister plants are survivors of a weak, possibly EF-0 tornado that hit my neighborhood and tore off HUGE branches from trees everywhere and made a mess of everyone's backyard and driveway. They survived by being nearby the wall where the wind had very little access to the plants, all the while my house shaking accompanied by a sound akin to a blender plus vacuum cleaner. I bred soldiers!
To this date, I still do not know what exact variety I have there. All I know is that they're hotter than normal Habaneros, have a very Scotch Bonnet -like taste, and 9/10 times have fetuses inside which makes them twice as hot, as it's often like eating two peppers in a bite. Cool, huh?
I should also mention that these sister plants are survivors of a weak, possibly EF-0 tornado that hit my neighborhood and tore off HUGE branches from trees everywhere and made a mess of everyone's backyard and driveway. They survived by being nearby the wall where the wind had very little access to the plants, all the while my house shaking accompanied by a sound akin to a blender plus vacuum cleaner. I bred soldiers!
