Vegetables
Heredity: Open Pollinated
Country of Origin: South Carolina, USA
Hybridizer or Originator: USDA

Data specific to Peppers (Edit)
General Type: Cayenne
Pepper Shape: Cylindrical
Wrinkled
Fruit Length: 3 - 5"
Fruit Width at Shoulders: 0.75"
Fruit Ripening Color Sequence: Green to Yellow to Orange to Red
Days to First Harvest and Maturity: 70 yellow-green, 85 red.
Wall Thickness: Thin
Scoville Heat Units (approximate SHU): 70,000 - 100,000
Heat: Hot 30K-300K SHU

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Shrub
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Plant Height: 18 - 30"
Fruit: Showy
Uses: Vegetable
Suitable as Annual

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Common names
  • Hot Pepper

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Location: Zone 5
Date: 2011-08-10
Charleston Hot
Location: Zone 5
Date: 2011-06-10
Charleston Hot

Courtesy Sustainable Seed Company
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Comments:
  • Posted by DanCarmona (Fort Wayne, Indiana - Zone 5a) on Jan 16, 2012 12:48 PM concerning plant:
    Capsicum: Annuum
    Origin: USA
    PI: 640825
    Flower: erect, stellate
    Petals: purple
    Spots: no
    Calyx: toothless
    Pods: 4-6"L Green > reddish orange
    Seed: yellow-brown
    Leaves: medium, glabrous
    Plant height: 18-24"
    Maturity: 85 Days
    Habit: sturdy, tree-like bush
    Scoville units: 70,000-100,000
    Germ. Time: 1 wk > 2 mo.

    Developed by the USDA at Clemson University in South Carolina In 1993. Thin fruit. It is straight to slightly curved because it is a Cayenne.

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