Fruity, floral and complex before its heat arrives.
The Living Pantry
Peppers · CaribbeanScotch Bonnet
Fruity, floral and complex before its heat arrives.
Botanical identityCapsicum chinense
Current statusGrowing study in progress
Heat language100,000–350,000 SHU
Sensory Lens
Not a flavor box. A living profile.
Choose a dimension. The instrument isolates one part of the plant’s character without reducing the whole ingredient to a single number.
Scotch Bonnet
Aroma / 82
Floral and tropical before the pepper reads as hot.
Brightness / 76
A vivid, fruit-led opening keeps the flavor lifted.
Depth / 68
Earth and pepper flesh build beneath the first impression.
Heat / 92
The heat rises deliberately and stays through the finish.
Fruity, floral and complex before its heat arrives.
Fruity, floral and complex before its heat arrives.
Fruity, floral and complex before its heat arrives.
Capsicum chinense
Taste, Culture & Use
A plant arrives with a past. We give it a new setting.
A defining Caribbean pepper used in sauces, marinades, pikliz and deeply seasoned dishes.
- Cultural route
- Caribbean
- Grown here
- Hydroponically in Costa Rica
Inside the Tower
Flavor begins below the leaf.
Caged Tower Garden Flex · current pepper study
From plant to possibility
Seed
A small beginning, selected for the flavor and behavior we want to study.
From plant to possibility
Root
The plant establishes in its grow cup while water, oxygen and mineral nutrition circulate below.
From plant to possibility
Tower
Vertical growing puts the plant in tropical light without pretending this is a field or conventional farm.
From plant to possibility
Harvest
Leaves or fruit are selected when aroma, color and structure are ready—not simply when the calendar says so.
From plant to possibility
Kitchen
Fresh, dried, infused or composed: the final use is chosen to protect what made the plant distinctive.
Fruity, floral and complex before its heat arrives.
This living entry is ready for original photographs, film, observations and updates as the NÈG MARRON journey develops.