Pepper ‘Scotch Bonnet’

Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.

The photographs

A pepper sold as Scotch Bonnet on 23 June, eight leaves spread flat into a near-perfect circle from one very short crown, rainwater beaded across them and short stiff white hairs plain along each leaf stalk, one blade holed where something chewed it.
Week of 22 JuneA pepper sold as Scotch Bonnet on 23 June, eight leaves spread flat into a near-perfect circle from one very short crown, rainwater beaded across them and short stiff white hairs plain along each leaf stalk, one blade holed where something chewed it.
A pepper sold as Scotch Bonnet on 25 June, all leaf and nothing else yet, each glossy blade cupping as it puckers and dimples between its sunken veins, the newest at the crown paler and crimped along the edge, and one stem below branching into three or four shoots.
Week of 22 JuneA pepper sold as Scotch Bonnet on 25 June, all leaf and nothing else yet, each glossy blade cupping as it puckers and dimples between its sunken veins, the newest at the crown paler and crimped along the edge, and one stem below branching into three or four shoots.

What happened

Crop
Pepper
Variety
Scotch Bonnet
Sown
18 April 2026 (approximate)
Transplanted
28 May 2026
Planted out
23 June 2026 (approximate)
Status
failed

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