Jamaican Hot Red Chilli 🌶🌶

The Jamaican Hot Red chilli is one amazing-looking and unique chilli, producing pods that look like a flying saucer.  They have a similar taste profile to the scotch bonnet and also a similar heat level of 100,000-200,000 Scoville.

The plant will grow numerous pods and they will start a light green and slowly ripen to a lovely vibrant red when fully mature.

They are used often in Caribbean cooking but have now become popular around the world.  We use these chillies when making our medium-hot chilli jams.

Plant Care Tips

Sow a few seeds into a tray from late January to May and cover lightly with seed compost. Either use a heated propagator or pop the seed tray into an enclosed plastic bag and seal and place it on a windowsill.  Once the seedling has produced two true leaves (second set of leaves) they can be transplanted into individual pots.  Try and maintain around 20-25 degrees while young plants.

As the plant grows, transplant it into as large a pot as allows, this will determine the size of the plant.  Once the plant has flowered and has started to produce small chillies, it will benefit from a feed of either comfrey tea or tomato feed.  Chillies dislike irregular watering as this will sometimes cause blossom end rot (the base of the chilli/pepper rots)

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