Kitchen Pepper
Grow Aji Dulce Puerto Rico for fragrant, fruity peppers to chop into sofrito, salsa and everyday seasoning. Its habanero-like aroma comes with much gentler heat, though individual fruits can have a mild kick.
CASA VERDE · HEAT PROFILE
Mild
- Sweet
- Mild — this variety
- Medium
- Hot
- Super hot
Understanding the heat
A diamond marks the midpoint of a listed range, or the listed value when only one number is given. An arrow marks a stated limit. These are variety guides, not measurements of our seed lot. This guide uses unequal numerical bands: sweet 0; mild up to 10,000; medium 10,000–50,000; hot 50,000–800,000; super hot from 800,000 SHU (display capped at 3 million). Heat varies between fruits and with growing conditions.
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- Packet
- 10+ seeds per packet
- Heat
- 0–1000 SHU
- Origin
- Caribbean
CASA VERDE · GROWER’S NOTES
Get to know your pepper.
Mild seasoning pepper · 10+ seeds
Aji Dulce Puerto Rico pepper seeds
Grow Aji Dulce Puerto Rico for fragrant, fruity peppers to chop into sofrito, salsa and everyday seasoning. Its habanero-like aroma comes with much gentler heat, though individual fruits can have a mild kick.
At a glance
Species
Capsicum chinense
Heat
Mild; listed guide 0–1,000 SHU
Kitchen use
Sofrito, salsa, roasting, fresh seasoning
Packet
10+ seeds
Why grow it?
Choose this seasoning pepper when you want pepper aroma to carry a dish with less pungency than a typical habanero. Taste a small piece before adding it to food for someone sensitive to heat.
In the kitchen
- Sofrito: Chop with your preferred herbs and aromatics for a cooking base.
- Fresh: Dice into salsa or salad for a fruity pepper note.
- Cooked: Roast or sauté, then add to rice, beans or sauces.
Growing and harvesting
Start indoors with warmth and bright light. Harden plants off and transplant after frost risk has passed, into warm, well-drained soil.
Harvest green or allow fruits to ripen red. Allow a long warm season; harvest timing depends on conditions, and a verified maturity figure is not available for this seed lot.
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Is it guaranteed heatless?
No. It is a mild seasoning pepper, and some fruits may have a trace of heat.
Does Puerto Rico identify where these seeds were produced?
It is part of the variety name and culinary association, not a claim about this seed lot’s production location.
Is it a habanero?
It belongs to Capsicum chinense and offers a related aroma, with much gentler heat than typical hot habaneros.
The listed Scoville range is variety guidance, not a laboratory test of this seed lot or your harvest. Flavour, heat and ripening vary with conditions.
Cook your harvest
Use your harvest in these recipes. Check the variety notes and substitutions in each recipe.
Start indoors 8–10 weeks before last frost. Germinate at 26–30 °C on a heat mat; peppers stall below 22 °C. Pot up to 10–15 cm before hardening off outside after nights stay above 12 °C.
Feed balanced through bloom, then bump potassium for fruiting. Stake taller varieties. More detail in our full Canadian growing guide.
Match the pepper to the technique: thin-walled varieties blister fast in a hot pan; thick-walled ones roast or stuff beautifully; fruit-forward ones make balanced sauces and pickles. The variety's flavour profile is your shortcut — see Choosing the right pepper for a use-case guide.
