In the kitchen
- Green seasoning: Chop with herbs, garlic and onion.
- Sofrito: Cook gently as a flavour base for rice and beans.
- Fresh relish: Dice finely and add gradually to taste.
Kitchen Pepper
Trinidad Smooth is a seasoning pepper for building aroma into everyday cooking. Chop it into a green seasoning, soften it with onion and garlic, or use a little to flavour beans and rice.
CASA VERDE · HEAT PROFILE
Mild
- Sweet
- Mild — this variety
- Medium
- Hot
- Super hot
Scoville range awaiting confirmation.
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.
No numeric marker is shown without a sufficiently clear range. For bundles, the highlighted categories refer to the different varieties.
A Scoville range has not been listed for this variety.
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Growing guides
Ships from Québec
- Packet
- 10+ seeds per packet
- Season
- 2027
Good for
CASA VERDE · GROWER’S NOTES
Get to know your pepper.
Trinidad Smooth Pepper: seasoning and sofrito
Trinidad Smooth is a seasoning pepper for building aroma into everyday cooking. Chop it into a green seasoning, soften it with onion and garlic, or use a little to flavour beans and rice.
Mild
10+ Seeds per Packet
Capsicum chinense
Seasoning and sofrito
Why grow it?
Choose it for the flavour foundation of a meal. Seasoning peppers work especially well in finely chopped mixtures where their aroma can spread through the dish.
At a glance
Flavour: Aromatic seasoning-pepper character
Appearance: Small seasoning peppers that ripen through orange to red
Crop: Warm-season pepper, grown as an annual in Canada
Best uses: Seasoning and sofrito
Growing in Canada
Start indoors 8–10 weeks before your expected last frost, allowing extra time for slower seasoning peppers. Keep the seed-starting mix warm and evenly moist. Harden plants off gradually and transplant after frost into a sunny, sheltered position once nights are reliably warm. In a short season, a container in a warm spot can help you manage the crop.
Explore the kitchen garden
Pepper seeds Canada2027 pepper seeds catalogueIs this a sweet or spicy pepper?
It is commonly described as a mild seasoning pepper. The exact seed line still needs confirmation; taste cautiously.
Can I grow it in a container?
Yes. Use a generous container with drainage, full sun and consistent watering. Feed regularly and support the plant as fruit develops.
What is in the packet?
10+ pepper seeds for starting your own plants. This is a seed listing, not fresh peppers or live plants.
Seed note
Supplier identity and heat of this seed line are awaiting confirmation. Taste a small piece before adding a whole pepper; heat can vary.
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.
