Kitchen Pepper
Grow Super Chili for upright red peppers to slice into stir-fries, chop into salsa or cook into a hot sauce. Its compact habit brings a useful kitchen crop to a sunny container or garden bed.
CASA VERDE · HEAT PROFILE
Medium
- Sweet
- Mild
- Medium — this variety
- 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
- Maturity
- About 70 days from transplant (AAS reference); timing varies
- Heat
- 35000–40000 SHU
- Plant habit
- Compact, upright; reference height about 38 cm (15 in)
- Origin
- Thailand
CASA VERDE · GROWER’S NOTES
Get to know your pepper.
Medium on our heat guide · 10+ seeds
Super Chili: small peppers for everyday spice
Grow Super Chili for upright red peppers to slice into stir-fries, chop into salsa or cook into a hot sauce. Its compact habit brings a useful kitchen crop to a sunny container or garden bed.
At a glance
Heat
35,000–40,000 SHU, breeder’s variety guide
Packet
10+ seeds
Harvest timing
AAS lists about 70 days from transplant; conditions affect timing
Plant habit
Compact and upright; AAS reference height about 38 cm (15 in)
Why grow it?
Choose Super Chili when you want small, spicy peppers close to the kitchen. Upright fruits ripen from green through orange to red, adding colour while you wait for harvest.
In the kitchen
- Stir-fries: Slice a little into vegetables, noodles or rice.
- Salsa: Add a small amount, taste, then adjust.
- Sauce: Cook with tomatoes and aromatics for a spicy table sauce.
Growing and harvest
Start indoors with warmth and bright light. Harden off and transplant after frost risk, into warm soil in full sun.
The maturity figure starts at transplanting, not sowing. Green fruit can be used fresh; leave fruit longer for a red harvest.
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Does “Medium” mean gentle?
No. This is a spicy pepper. Medium is its position on Casa Verde’s scale, which also includes much hotter varieties.
Will every fruit have the same heat?
No. Scoville figures describe the variety, not a laboratory test of this seed lot or your harvest.
Is it suitable for a container?
Yes. Choose a sunny position and a container with drainage.
Hybrid seed. Saved seeds may not reproduce the parent’s characteristics. Heat, size and harvest timing vary with growing conditions.
Variety references: Seminis heat profile and All-America Selections growing profile.
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.
