Helios Habanero Pepper
Capsicum chinense
days to maturity: 90 till orange
plant spacing: 1 plant per square foot
sunlight requirement: 6-14 hours
look out for: white fly & spider mites
harvest notes: harvest when orange
scoville heat units: 75,000
seasons: fall, winter, spring
annual
Helios is a bright orange hyrbid habanero variety with about 75,000 units on the scoville scale, so its not crazy hot but it does pack a punch. Plants are hardy and grow to be quite large, like small ornamental bushes dripping with little orange peppers. Hot peppers are perennials in our tropical climate and we have large plants that are years old and still fruiting.