Habanada - Sweet Pepper

While it is tempting to try some when beige, wait until the peppers are bright orange to get the full fruity effect. It has an aroma which adds to the taste. My ten plants produced HUNDREDS of tasty peppers, so many that I fed the excess to the chickens, which fought over them. They are slow to start from seed and mature later but are well worth it. Friends beg for more when they taste them.

I like orange in the garden, the plant was pretty in the garden, very prolific. Unfortunately the peppers were eaten by pests. Lots of little holes in the peppers that didn't allow them to get ripe. I'll try to grow again, sure are pretty.

When it got hot the plant didn’t die, but didn’t grow or produce anything but one or two peppers that got bad spots before it ripened. As soon as it *stayed cool, the plant exploded and I could not hardly keep them picked. It does wonderful, but don’t write them off until after fall. Actually, even in winter they produced til the 2nd frost took them out.

Started 4 of these indoors around St. Pat’s day then set outside late May. The plants grew well and take the usual habanero-long season to bear ripe peppers, with the first one in early September. We are thrilled with these peppers as they have all the unique flavor of a habanero with no heat at all. This allows us to experiment using this unique flavor in different dishes and dial in the heat with other peppers. These peppers are wonderful eating fresh as a snack, and we enjoy the seeds and all.

Unfortunately this variety gave me nada. Literally. The plant bushed out nicely and then didn't flower or fruit! The entire LONG growing season. It was the only pepper out of 8 sweet varieties that did nothing and they were in the same bed.