• Do you need help identifying a 🌶?
    Is your plant suffering from an unknown issue? 🤧
    Then ask in Identification and Diagnosis.

Name this pepper

So apparently they're not super hot, I read online that "The scotch bonnet pepper typically has a scoville heat unit of between 363,000 to 456,000, while the West Indian red pepper has between 200,000 to 250,000." But supposedly, the yields are significantly higher and the plant as superior disease resistance. Maybe my motley crew assortment is a result of cross pollination and perhaps a crop grown with saved seeds instead of "certified" seeds.

Those SHU figures look very high for Scotch bonnets which I would say are usually under 250000SHU
 
Those SHU figures look very high for Scotch bonnets which I would say are usually under 250000SHU

That's why I put it in quotes... that text is from a Jamaican gov't document and they do not provide any references or citations on where those SHUs come from:
http://www.moa.gov.jm/news/RADA%20Newsletter/marketwise_hotpepper.pdf
 
Back
Top