Packet Content (approx.): 10

Scotch bonnet is one of the most well known pungent extremely hot varieties  originating from Jamaica chilli peppers. This variety matures from green to red.  The plant grows bright red fruit and produces masses of fruit, 4-6cm long on  24-36in plants.

Long growing season, most suitable for greenhouse, polytunnel, conservatory  production.

Sow pepper seeds about 1 cm deep into a seed tray or in small pots or cells.  Cover lightly, water and place inside at between 20-25 ?C to aid germination,  place the tray in a plastic bag.
Sow January-March.
Germination can be slow with some hot peppers.

As soon as seedlings are large enough to handle, prick out.
Transplant the seedlings into small individual pots. Use rich compost and keep  the plants between 20-30 Celsius during the growing season.

For best production keep the plants in the Greenhouse, Polytunnel, Conservatory.
Regular feeding is recommended.

Be prepared to water well and supplement feed with high-potash feed during season.

Regular feeding is recommended.

Scotch bonnet is one of the most well known pungent extremely hot varieties originating from Jamaica chilli peppers. This variety matures from green, yellow to red. The plant grows yellow fruit and produces masses of fruit, 4-6cm long on 24-36in plants. 

Long growing season, most suitable for greenhouse, polytunnel, conservatory production. 

Sow pepper seeds about 1 cm deep into a seed tray or in small pots or cells. Cover lightly, water and place inside at between 20-25 ?C to aid germination, place the tray in a plastic bag. 
Sow January-March. 
Germination can be slow with some hot peppers. 

As soon as seedlings are large enough to handle, prick out.
Transplant the seedlings into small individual pots. Use rich compost and keep the plants between 20-30 Celsius during the growing season. 
 
For best production keep the plants in the Greenhouse, Polytunnel, Conservatory. Regular feeding is recommended.

4 Multi Variety Packets of Vegetable/Fruit Seeds

Viridis Hortus - CHILLI COLLECTION Contains 4 Varieties Chilli Seeds - Cayenne, Jalapeno, Habanero & Anaheim.

Grow a delicious vegetable/fruit crop this year with Viridis Hortus Chilli variety Collection seed pack.

Great deal 4 Variety Packs of Vegetable/Fruit Seeds

Packet Content: Anaheim Hot Chilli, Cayenne Long Slim Chilli Pepper, Jalapeno Hot Chilli Pepper & Habanero Orange Hot Chilli Pepper

Huge variety of different seeds Ideal selection to start off your own home vegetable plot.

Sowing Instruction’s enclosed with packs

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* Anaheim Hot Chilli - 6 Seeds - Anaheim chilli pepper is a long thin fruits, approx 15cm (6") in length. A meaty mild chili. 75-80 days to maturity. Changing from dark green to red.

* Cayenne Long Slim Chilli Pepper - 8 Seeds - The pointed, bright green pods, 4-5 ins. long and produced in profusion, turn fiery red as they mature. They are used fresh in hot sauces or dried and ground for cayenne pepper.

* Jalapeno Hot Chilli Pepper - 8 Seeds - A very hot pepper extremely pungent plants reach up to 1 meter under cover. High yielding. 

* Habanero Orange Hot Chilli Pepper - 6 Seeds - Habanero Orange Pepper is one of the hottest of the habanero's and one of the hottest peppers in the world with a SHU's rating of 100,000 to 350,000 units. This pepper is a very aromatic, flavourful, extremely pungent hot pepper.

Regular feeding is recommended.

Suitable for the vegetable garden, allotments and containers.

Be prepared to water well and supplement feed with high-potash feed during season. Regular feeding is recommended.

A wonderfully productive and decorative chilli pepper. The unique, bushy growing habit of Chilli Pepper 'Basket of Fire' makes it perfect for hanging baskets and containers. This colourful variety becomes smothered with small, hot chillies which mature from deep purple through yellow and orange to a bright shade of scarlet red, creating a fabulous display. Plants show good tolerance to cool weather and will continue to fruit outside well into the autumn, and even longer under glass. These powerful peppers have a Scoville heat rating of around 80000shu, and once harvested can be dried or used fresh from the plant. Height: 30cm (12”). Spread: 50cm (20”).

Sow pepper seeds about 1 cm deep into a seed tray or in small pots or cells.  Cover lightly, water and place inside at between 20-25°C to aid germination,  place the tray in a plastic bag.
Sow January-March.
Germination can be slow with some hot peppers.

As soon as seedlings are large enough to handle, prick out.
Transplant the seedlings into small individual pots. Use rich compost and keep  the plants between 20-30°C during the growing season.

For best production keep the plants in the Greenhouse, Polytunnel, Conservatory.

Transplant seedlings when large enough to handle into 7.5cm (3in) pots. Plant in the greenhouse in individual large pots, or 3 plants per growbag when 20cm (8in) high.

Can be planted outdoors, 45cm (18in) apart once all frost risk has passed.

Suitable for the vegetable garden, allotments and containers.
Be prepared to water well and supplement feed with high-potash feed during season. Regular feeding is recommended.

Perhaps the worlds hottest pepper: measured at over 1 million Scovilles. Originating in the Assam region of India it has lime green fruits which ripen to red. Best grown under warm conditions to maximise the heat.

Bhut Jolokia, the smallest amount of Bhut Jolokia can flavour a sauce so intensely it?s barely edible. Taking a small bite will cause watering eyes and a runny nose.

One of the world?s hottest chilli is the Bhut Jolokia also known as Bih Jolokia (ghost Chilli) originating in Assam in North East India. It is the one of the record holders with an official Scoville heat rating (SHU) of 1,001,304 SHU twice that of the previous record holder, the Red Savina.

Ripe peppers measure 60 to 85 mm (2.4 to 3.3 in) long and 25 to 30 mm (1.0 to 1.2 in) wide with a red, yellow, orange, or chocolate color. The unselected strain of bhut jolokia from India is an extremely variable plant, with a wide range in fruit sizes and fruit production per plant, and offers a huge potential for developing much better strains through selection in the future. Bhut jolokia pods are unique among peppers, with their characteristic shape, and very thin skin. However, the red fruit variety has two different fruit types, the rough, dented fruit and the smooth fruit. The images on this page show examples of both the rough and the smooth fruit forms. The rough fruit plants are taller, with more fragile branches, and the smooth fruit plants yields more fruit, and is a more compact plant with sturdier branches.

Long growing season, most suitable for greenhouse, polytunnel, conservatory  production.

Sow pepper seeds about 1 cm deep into a seed tray or in small pots or cells.  Cover lightly, water and place inside at between 20-25°C to aid germination,  place the tray in a plastic bag.
Sow January-March.
Germination can be slow with some hot peppers.

 

As soon as seedlings are large enough to handle, prick out.
Transplant the seedlings into small individual pots. Use rich compost and keep  the plants between 20-30°C during the growing season.

 

For best production keep the plants in the Greenhouse, Polytunnel, Conservatory.

 

Be prepared to water well and supplement feed with high-potash feed during season.

Regular feeding is recommended.

4 Multi Variety Packets of Vegetable/Fruit Seeds

Viridis Hortus - Hot Chilli Collection Contains 4 Varieties - Thai Hot Chilli, Bout Jolokia, Habanero Caribbean Red & Red Scotch Bonnet.

Ideal selection to start off your own home or allotment vegetable/Fruit plot. Sizzle in the kitchen with these fantastic varieties and create your own fiery dishes. These Chilli Peppers are not for the faint hearted, very hot.

Grow a delicious vegetable/fruit crop this year with Viridis Hortus Chilli variety Collection seed pack.

Great deal 4 Variety Packs of Vegetable/Fruit Seeds

Packet Content: Thai Hot Chilli, Bout Jolokia, Habanero Caribbean Red & Scotch Bonnet Red

Huge variety of different seeds Ideal selection to start off your own home vegetable plot.

Sowing Instruction’s enclosed with packs

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* Thai Hot Chilli Prpper - 6 Seeds - A wonderfully productive and decorative chilli pepper. The unique, bushy growing habit of Chilli Pepper 'Thai Hot Chilli Prpper' makes it perfect for hanging baskets and containers. These powerful peppers have a Scoville heat rating of around 80000-100000shu, and once harvested can be dried or used fresh from the plant.

* Bout Jolokia Hot Chilli - 6 Seeds - Perhaps One of the world?s hottest chilli is the Bhut Jolokia also known as Bih Jolokia (ghost Chilli) originating in Assam in North East India. It is the one of the record holders with an official Scoville heat rating (SHU) of 1,001,304 SHU twice that of the previous record holder, the Red Savina. Best grown under warm conditions to maximise the heat. Bhut Jolokia, the smallest amount of Bhut Jolokia can flavour a sauce so intensely it?s barely edible. Taking a small bite will cause watering eyes and a runny nose.

* Habanero Caribbean Red Hot Chilli - 8 Seeds - A very colourful strain of habanero, Caribbean Red has a very unique flavour, much more potent than a typical Orange Habanero with a very pungent fruity aroma. 1 ¾ inches long by 2 inches wide wrinkled hot peppers. Treat this fireball with respect as it up to 400,000 SHU's. The Caribbean red habanero is about twice as hot as a regular habanero. It matures in as little as 90 days 

* Scotch Bonnet Red Chilli Pepper - 8 Seeds - Scotch Bonnets, native to the Caribbean islands, is in the family of the habanero and resembles a habanero, except it is usually redder in color. The Scotch Bonnet is often used in Caribbean chili sauces and, similar to its cousin, the habanero, is ranked between 100,000 and 350,000 SHU.

Viridis Hortus - Hot Chilli Collection 4 Varieties Thai Hot / Bout Jolokia / Habanero Caribbean Red / Scotch Bonnet Red. Ideal selection to start off your own home or allotment vegetable/Fruit plot. Sizzle in the kitchen with these fantastic varieties and create your own fiery dishes. Habanero is not for the faint hearted, very hot.

Sow chilli pepper seeds about 1 cm deep into a seed tray or in small pots or cells. Cover lightly, water and place inside at between 20-25°C to aid germination, place the tray in a plastic bag.

Sow January-March. Germination can be slow with some hot peppers.

As soon as seedlings are large enough to handle, prick out. Transplant the seedlings into small individual pots. Use rich compost and keep the plants between 20-30°C during the growing season.

Sowing Instruction's enclosed with pack

Suitable for the vegetable garden, allotments and containers.

Be prepared to water well and supplement feed with high-potash feed during season. Regular feeding is recommended.

A compact and productive Capsicum annuum cultivar which is highly ornamental. The hot chillies are excellent for drying and for chilli powder. One of the best chillies for growing in pots as the plants branch very freely, and naturally develop an attractive shape which displays the ripe chillies to great advantage.

Awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit.

• Species : Capsicum annuum
• Type : ornamental/culinary
• Origin : Thailand
• Plant : dwarf
• Chillies : medium, erect
• Shape : short finger
• Flavour : good
• Pungency : very hot
• Unripe Chillies : green
• Ripe Chillies : red
• Flesh : thin
• Core : medium
• Seeds : numerous
• Season : quite early
• Yield : very good

Growing Peppers:

Peppers, like tomatoes, grow in well-drained fertile soil

Almost all peppers have the same requirements for successful growth.  Plant them in good, well-drained, fertile soil ? and make sure they get lots of sunlight and a good inch of water per week.  In many ways, they mimic the same requirements needed for growing great tomatoes.

At Planting Time:

We plant all of our peppers with a good shovel full of compost in the planting hole, and then give them a good dose of compost tea every few weeks for the first 6 weeks of growth.  We also mulch around each of our pepper plants with a good 1 to 2? thick layer of compost.

Peppers often like to take their sweet time germinating. They can be up in a week, and some will take almost a month. Even with paper towel germination testing, they can take long. I am not sure why, but it is a normal occurrence. So plan and make sure you start them early enough! Also, remember they like heat to germinate so make sure you have a heating mat or something to keep the soil warm. Placing them up on top of the fridge often works too since it is normally warmer up there.

Peppers do very well grown in pots.

Packet Content (approx.): 15

The tropical Cherry Bomb Hot Pepper is similar in hotness to our Rotabasco and Fiery Hot Peppers, and is hot enough to get one burning up; our hotness guesstimate for this variety is approximately 25,000 to 50,000 Scoville Units. Great to spice up any spicy foods or combine it with other hot pepper varieties to ground up and bottle up for later use.

Packet Content (approx.): 10

Pronounced bee-KEE-nyo, the name of this landrace from Brazil means ?little beak,? A fruity, sweet-flavoured Brazilian chilli that is known by several names "Chupetinho" and "Biquinho", but others include "pimenta de bico", "Pearl Peppers" and "chupetinha".  We at Viridis Hortus we sell this variety under the name "Biquinho Red".

It will add a kiss of flavour to any dish you cook with it. The bright red 1 inch pods taper to a point like an inverted teardrop. The pepper has the distinctive smoky flavour like other members of this species, but also a rich fruitiness that is enhanced by sugar or sweet-and-sour marinades. It also makes the perfect garnish for barbecues and pickles. The 2 1/2 foot bushes should be spaced 18 inches apart. Heat is mild 4/10

Days to Ripe Red - 100-120 days

Plant height - 60 - 80 cm

Fruit Habit - Pendant

Fruit Colour - Yellow-Green turning bright red

Fruit Shape - Triangular shaped rounded to little beak

Fruit Size (length x diameter) - 3.5 x 2.5 cm

Scoville rating - 500 - 1000

Taste - Sweet, fruity and peppery flavour, not much heat

Disease Tolerance -None

Remarks

Thanks to its beautiful shape it can be used to decorate dishes and can be consumed in salads, sauces, casseroles and beans. Very strong aroma being a chinense type but very low pungency. Extremely prolific, producing 100s of fruit per plant.

Green Thumb Tip

Sow seeds indoors ¼" deep. Peppers germinate best in warm soil, so gentle bottom heat may be helpful until seedlings emerge. Wait to transplant outdoors until soil is warm.

Growing Peppers:

Peppers, like tomatoes, grow in well-drained fertile soil

Almost all peppers have the same requirements for successful growth.  Plant them in good, well-drained, fertile soil ? and make sure they get lots of sunlight and a good inch of water per week.  In many ways, they mimic the same requirements needed for growing great tomatoes.

At Planting Time:

We plant all of our peppers with a good shovel full of compost in the planting hole, and then give them a good dose of compost tea every few weeks for the first 6 weeks of growth.  We also mulch around each of our pepper plants with a good 1 to 2? thick layer of compost.

Peppers often like to take their sweet time germinating. They can be up in a week, and some will take almost a month. Even with paper towel germination testing, they can take long. I am not sure why, but it is a normal occurrence. So plan and make sure you start them early enough! Also, remember they like heat to germinate so make sure you have a heating mat or something to keep the soil warm. Placing them up on top of the fridge often works too since it is normally warmer up there.

Peppers do very well grown in pots.

Packet Content (approx.): 10

• Botanical Name: Capsicum annum glabriusculum.  The Birds Eye pepper is the official wild pepper of Texas.
  
  - A very hot, often 7x - 8x hotter on the scoville scale than jalapenos!
  
  - This is a Perennial pepper variety which means that if the soil doesn't freeze hard in your area, you'll most likely be able to grow these peppers all year round. 
  
  - Rated at 200,000 Scoville Heat Units!
  
  - Easy to grow from seeds.
  
  - Can be used in place of any hot peppers in many culinary recipes.  
  
  - The commercial hot sauce brand Cholula lists bird peppers as one of its ingredients.

A fantastic, extremely hot, dwarf variety that produces a prolific yield.  The flowers and upward pointing fruits start green and turn bright red and are produced throughout the season.  These are ideally suited to a windowsill or patio containers and make equally attractive ornamental plants.  WARNING? When handling these seeds you should wear gloves or thoroughly wash your hands afterwards as the seed residue will irritate / burn sensitive skin.

Days to Germination: 10-21
Days To Harvest:  70-80
Planting Depth: 1/4
Spacing: 18 inches
Light:  Sunny warm location / Greenhouse / Conservatory