Scotch Bonnet

[scotchnaga85]

Lately one of my locals has had some lovely bonnets in so i decided i would buy one. I picked the best looking one so that i can take the seeds and hopefully have a healthy plant or two.

What do you think of my pick?

Its quite large but i think it has a near perfect shape too

 

[Prehensile]

Nice, but I don't see a bonnet.?

 

[masschilehead]

Lately one of my locals has had some lovely bonnets in so i decided i would buy one. I picked the best looking one so that i can take the seeds and hopefully have a healthy plant or two.

What do you think of my pick?

Its quite large but i think it has a near perfect shape too

I'd like to throw my 2 pence in.... Beautiful pod, nice choice!

 

[patrick]

That is one huge Scotch Bonnet, best of luck growing plants from the seeds.

 

[scotchnaga85]

Nice, but I don't see a bonnet.?

That is a scotch bonnet in the picture.

 

[scotchnaga85]

I'd like to throw my 2 pence in.... Beautiful pod, nice choice!

They taste great too

My own bonnets this year have much much smaller and more pants in the looks department.

 

[scotchnaga85]

That is one huge Scotch Bonnet, best of luck growing plants from the seeds.

It was one of the larger pods but there where others that where even bigger, this however had the best shape.

 

[ajijoe]

i looks more like a WEST INDIAN RED the size and shape sort of dictates that

how ever im not saying its not a Bonnet

nice pepper just the same thanks your friend Joe

 

[scotchnaga85]

i looks more like a WEST INDIAN RED the size and shape sort of dictates that

how ever im not saying its not a Bonnet

nice pepper just the same thanks your friend Joe

Possibly yes, but what i find on google seems to indicate that the "west indian red" is a Jamaican pepper. The peppers available over here are African. For some reason i used to think they where of Kenyan origin, i think i might have been told this once by a market seller. I now however think otherwise, i recently did some research and come to the conclusion that they come from Uganda.

Mainly because i found a website that delt with wholesale traders, and lot of the scotch bonnets either came from the carribean or africa... Jamaica & Uganda being common sources. I also found this intersting article.

http://www.foodnet.cgiar.org/market/Uganda/reports/Pepper.PDF

It was from 2001 so quite old but none the less relivant.

My own pepper in this photo is 2inch in both length & hight at its longest points.

 

[ajijoe]

Possibly yes, but what i find on google seems to indicate that the "west indian red" is a Jamaican pepper. The peppers available over here are African. For some reason i used to think they where of Kenyan origin, i think i might have been told this once by a market seller. I now however think otherwise, i recently did some research and come to the conclusion that they come from Uganda.

Mainly because i found a website that delt with wholesale traders, and lot of the scotch bonnets either came from the carribean or africa... Jamaica & Uganda being common sources. I also found this intersting article.

http://www.foodnet.cgiar.org/market/Uganda/reports/Pepper.PDF

It was from 2001 so quite old but none the less relivant.

My own pepper in this photo is 2inch in both length & hight at its longest points.

oh OK
its actually more similar to Senegal red Habanero

thanks your friend Joe

 

[PIC 1]

That "Bonnet" can easily weigh a "Stone"...aye......chap

 

[scotchnaga85]

That "Bonnet" can easily weigh a "Stone"...aye......chap

easy 20g id guess

 

[scotchnaga85]

oh OK
its actually more similar to Senegal red Habanero

thanks your friend Joe

They come in all kinds of shapes and sizes and of different stages of ripeness. The smallest in the box yesterday was wallnut sized.

THe falvour is deffo a scotch bonnet... and also a very strong flavour, unlike my home growns

 

[Omri]

an african scotch bonnet that doesn't look like a bonnet? enjoy growing it.

 

[scotchnaga85]

an african scotch bonnet that doesn't look like a bonnet? enjoy growing it.

 

[harry]

Omri's point is that the variety you grew is not a Scotch Bonnet. I agree given what I've learned from others by in the forums. There's an extensive discussion in the Scotch Bonnet Varieties topic.

 

[Prehensile]

That is a scotch bonnet in the picture.

Was just sayin I've seen labels in the market, they say scotch bonnet but they are clearly habs, yours could be a bonnet that grew up without the bonnet?

 

[markt_10350]

I bought some seeds that was labeled as Yellow Scotch Bonnet. But upon further research it turns out that what I have is an annum variety and not a true scotch bonnet. It is known as Jamaican Yellow Mushroom.
What a bummer..

Mark T

 

[POTAWIE]

Was just sayin I've seen labels in the market, they say scotch bonnet but they are clearly habs, yours could be a bonnet that grew up without the bonnet?

Most are not habs either. They are C. chinenses but hab-nots and bon-nots

 

[scotchnaga85]

Omri's point is that the variety you grew is not a Scotch Bonnet. I agree given what I've learned from others by in the forums. There's an extensive discussion in the Scotch Bonnet Varieties topic.

When this thread is only a page long there really is no excuse for people to be posting on the subject matter, without reading what has been said.