Vegetables
Heredity: Open Pollinated
Country of Origin: Yucatan peninsula, Mexico

Data specific to Peppers (Edit)
General Type: Habanero
Other: Sinense
Pepper Shape: Tapered
Wrinkled
Other: Lantern-like shape
Fruit Length: 1.5 - 1.75 inches
Fruit Width at Shoulders: 1 - 1.5 inch
Fruit Ripening Color Sequence: Green to Orange to Red
Days to First Harvest and Maturity: 80 green, 110 red.
Scoville Heat Units (approximate SHU): 350,000 - 445,000
Heat: Ultra Hot >300K SHU

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Plant Height: 24 - 30 inches
Fruit: Showy
Uses: Vegetable
Suitable as Annual

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Common names
  • Habanero

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Location: Zone 5 Fort Wayne Indiana
Date: 2009-09-16
Habanero Caribbean Red

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Location: Zone 5 Fort Wayne Indiana
Date: 2009-08-07
Habanero Caribbean Red
Comments:
  • Posted by Trish (Grapevine, TX - Zone 8a) on May 2, 2022 1:26 PM concerning plant:
    110 days. One of the hottest habanero varieties. It grows like a traditional habanero but is more productive, has more uniform fruit size and shape, and is hotter. Not for the faint of heart.

  • Posted by DanCarmona (Fort Wayne, Indiana - Zone 5a) on Jan 21, 2012 8:38 AM concerning plant:
    Habanero Caribbean Red
    Capsicum: sinense
    Origin: Mexico
    PI:
    Flower: stellate, small, bell-shaped
    Petals: white
    Spots: No
    Calyx: Almost toothless
    Pods: 1 1/2" X 1" Light green/red
    Seed: yellow-brown
    Leaves: large, uneven
    Plant height: 24-36"
    Maturity: 100 day
    Habit: small, usually low tree
    Scoville units: 100,000-300,000
    Germ. Time: 3 wk. >.3 mo.

    Originating from the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Ripening to a rich, orangey red, this one-and-a-half-inch-long, scorchingly hot pepper (it's twice as hot as many of its notoriously pungent C. sinense cousins) can be identified by its distinctive, pointy tip

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