Guajillo (“gwah-hee-oh") is a very popular chili pepper in Mexico. The pods are between 10 and 15 cm long with a diameter of about 2.5 – 3 cm. They are reddish brown and when dried they turn black. This chili pepper dries well because of its...

Tepin or Chiltepin are very small round chili peppers which only have a diameter of only 0.6 to 0.8 cm. The peppers are very hot and according to some people even hotter than the Habanero. The Tepin is called “the mother of all chili peppers”...

Jamaican Hot Red is a compact plant which will grow to 60 cm in height. The plant gets an abundance of chili peppers. They are similar to Scotch Bonnet peppers and the pods are 5 cm long and 3.5 cm wide and look like mushrooms. They color during ripening...

The Thai Hot Culinary chili pepper is great to cook with. The hot chili peppers are very tasty and are about 7.5 cm long. The peppers grow upright in clusters. Thai Hot Culinary is a compact plant and therefore very suitable for pots and containers...

Cayenne Thick is a variant of the classic Cayenne chili pepper. It’s high yielding and the peppers are larger than the classic Cayenne and have a thick fruit wall. The peppers are about 15 cm long and 3 cm wide. They are long and wrinkled. The hot...

Until 2011 this was the hottest chili pepper in the world! With Scoville Units between 800.000 ~ 1.001.300 you can call this chili pepper nuclear. One drop of extract from this pepper needs one million drops of water to no longer be perceived as sharp...

Jamaican Hot Yellow is a compact plant which will grow to 60 cm in height. The plant gets an abundance of chili peppers. They are similar to Scotch Bonnet peppers and the pods are 5 cm long and 3.5 cm wide and look like mushrooms. They colour during...

Perhaps the most beautiful of all Cayenne chili pepper varieties. The Cayenne Purple is a dark purple variant of the classic Cayenne. The long, thin peppers colour from dark purple to red. They are very hot. The plants are about 60 to 90 cm tall and have...

Mulato Isleno is similar in size to the Ancho, but is slightly longer and flatter. It tastes slightly sweeter. The chili peppers mature from green to dark chocolate brown after about 85 to 95 days. The plants will grow to 80 cm in height. The peppers can...

Hot Portugal is one of the earliest fruiting chili pepper varieties. After about 70 days after germination, the pods are mature. The plant produces heavy yields of hot chili peppers. The peppers are around 15 cm long and 2.5 cm wide. They look like the...

Ancho Grande is larger than the Ancho. The chili peppers are about 10 cm long and 6 cm in diameter. In the immature stage, the dark green peppers are called Poblano. When they mature to red they retain the name Ancho, but when the pepper matures to dark...

‘De Arbol' means 'tree-like' in Spanish. This vigorous plant can reach a height of 120 cm in one season and resembles a tree. Chile de Arbol is similar to the Cayenne chili pepper, but has slightly less heat. The thin pods are about 10 cm long and...