matchbox hot pepper

A product of Roberta Bailey’s many years of dedicated breeding work to create an open-pollinated selection of the hybrid Super Chili, whose parents include Hungarian Hot Wax and Hot Banana. The squat plants bear prolific upright fruit, averaging 2" long, 1 ⁄ 3 " across and ripening from pale green to deep scarlet. Like Super Chili, they bear well in cold damp weather, hot dry weather, sandy soils and heavy clay. They have plenty of heat and the characteristic finely cut lightweight leaves of many hot peppers. Can be potted and overwintered or used to make a beautiful pepper wreath when frost threatens. Plenty hot at 30,000-50,000 Scoville units. OSSI . 2000 Fedco introduction. Breeder Royalties.