Apache Chili Pepper

 Jan 20, 2021

Ottawa City, Ontario, Canada

I have collected lots of Apache Pepper last Fall 2020, and aside from sharing the harvest, I have saved a lot for planting. 

While I do not use hot pepper, I have many friends that do love hot pepper. so why not? 

This is the harvest shared by my friend Karen during our Fall 2020 clean up. I will start some of the seeds now and see what we can grow this year ahead. 

"How hot is the Apache pepper? Its Scoville heat rating of 80,000 to 100,000 Scoville heat units aligns the Apache pepper as an extra-hot pepper, though on the milder side of that qualification. In relation to our jalapeño reference point, this puts the Apache pepper as 10 to 40 times hotter than a jalapeño pepper.

Capsicum annum ‘Apache’ is a dwarf chilli pepper, ideal for growing in pots on windowsills. It bears masses of medium-sized, hot chillies in a variety of colours from yellow to red. Chillies measure up to 75,000 on the Scoville Scale. For the hottest chillies, grow ‘Apache’ in full sun and water sparingly.

 a cultivar of capsicum annuum, the common chile. Apaches are a dwarf variety, good in pots and small gardens. There are two recognized varieties of Apache, apparently. Sometimes the fruit are yellow, and they can be eaten green like a Serrano or jalapeño. The plants don’t get large; only about 18 inches tall. They don’t grow fast either, although they will produce a lot of inch-long (or slightly longer), tasty peppers over time. (The fruit hang down on an Apache plant; other ornamental chiles may stick up in clusters.) Get the conditions and watering right and you can have chile peppers all year round, from a pot right in your kitchen.

How hot are Apache peppers? I’ve seen reports of anywhere from 5,000 Scoville Units to 80,000. To put that into perspective, a jalapeño pepper is about 5,000 at best, with the Serrano about 20,000 Scoville. The chiltepin chile weighs in around 80,000, with the infamous Habañero slightly hotter. "