Hot Paper Lantern
Capsicum Chinense

days to maturity: 70 lime green; 90 red ripe
plant spacing: 1 plant per square foot
sunlight requirement: 6-14 hours
look out for: white fly & spider mites
harvest notes: harvest when 3” to 4” long.
scoville heat units: 350,000
seasons: fall, winter, spring
annual

Hot Paper Lantern is a habanero type pepper with a Scoville score of 350,000 heat units. While the small dangling red jewels pack a lot of heat they also have a complex flavor that has made them popular with the chefs that buy from our farm. Plants are hardy and grow to be quite large, like small ornamental bushes. Hot peppers are perennials in our tropical climate and we have large plants that are years old and still fruiting.