A habanero variety of chilli from the Caribbean is the Antillais Caribbean. The plant grows to around 90 cm high in a pot and as wide. It is a fantastic producer of hot delicious habanero pods. They grow well in both pots and outdoors in soil. The fruit is 5-6 cm long and 3-4 cm wide and the fruits mature from lime green through to orange and then to bright red.
The Scoville heat unit for this variety is : 250 000 to 350 000 SHU
Important to Note.
Chilli peppers can be tricky to germinate and especially so with the rarer super hot varieties patience is needed as they can take up to 40 days to germinate in ideal conditions. We also recommend that a heat pad is used when germinating chillies of the Capsicum chinense species. All of our chillis are grown in isolation to avoid cross pollination. As chillis are rampant cross pollinators it is not uncommon for variances to appear in the fruit as chillis can cross pollinate with fruit from plants a few houses or kilometres away. The only way to ensure with 100% certainty that cross pollination does not occur is to use pollination bags on each flower when the plant starts to bud and before the flowers open.
