• Eventual height: 0.5m
  • Eventual spread: 0.5m

chilli 'Scotch Bonnet'

Capsicum chinense 'Scotch Bonnet'

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approx 50 seeds £2.29 £1.83
SD30001173
£2.29 £1.83
RH30004096
£6.99 £5.59
RH30004911
£20.97 £11.18
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  • Seed Packets (only) £2.95
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  • Position: Full sun
  • Soil:Moderately fertile, moist, well-drained soil
  • Rate of growth: Average
  • Hardiness: Tender annual


Mainly grown for it's decorative, super-hot fruits (which have a rating of 350,000-400,000 on the Scoville Scale), ‘Scotch Bonnet’ will produce plenty of tam o’ shanter-shaped chilli peppers throughout the summer. These can be eaten when they're green, pumpkin orange, or fiery red - although we'd always recommend wearing gloves when handling them. It's a good one to grow if you like your food spicy, and if you save the seeds from the ripe chillies, you can plant them up for another crop the following year.


  • Garden care:
    Grow on in a well-lit, warm location such as a sunny windowsill or greenhouse until all risk of frost has passed before moving them to their final growing positions outside, in a sunny spot, or keep in a greenhouse for earlier harvests and hotter fruits. Keep well watered and feed regularly with high-potash tomato food once the fruits begin to form.


  • Sowing instructions:
    Start off indoors, sowing seed 1cm deep into trays filled with good quality, multi-purpose compost. Alternatively, use small pots, sowing two seeds per pot and then selecting the strongest seedling to grow on. Plant out or pot up in a greenhouse from April to June and when plants reach 20cm in height, pinch out the tips to encourage more side shoots (and subsequently more peppers) to form.

  • Sow: February to May


  • Harvest: July to October
    • Humans/Pets: Irritant if eaten; skin/eye irritant
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