How hot is Pickles Blood?

Capsi’s sourced range is 4,000–10,000 SHU (Vendor Claim). Capsi uses a sourced range and a trust tier, not a single marketing number. How we verify heat: https://web.thecapsi.app/learn/heat-and-capsaicin/how-we-measure-heat

How do I grow Pickles Blood?

Pickles Blood: subtropical climate, full sun.

Pickles Blood (Pickle's Blood)

Also known as Pickle's Blood · Pickles Blood Sport

Pickles Blood is a Capsicum annuum f2+ from North Carolina, United States. Capsi’s sourced range is 4,000–10,000 SHU (Vendor Claim). Flavor is smoky, fruity. Used for Pickling, fresh slicing, salsa, and ornamental pots.. Heat is a range, not a single marketing number.

Pickles Blood is a compact Capsicum annuum grown for cream, green, and purple variegated foliage and slim pods that ripen from dark purple to blood red. Growers keep it in pots and use the fruit for pickling.

About 1/3.2 the typical heat of a Capsi Jalapeño (31,902 SHU).

Fruit size

5–8 cm

Flavor & Use

Smoky and fruity, close to a jalapeño.

smokyfruity

Culinary

Picklingfresh slicingsalsaand ornamental pots.

About

Leaves are heavily splashed white, green, and purple on a short plant, usually 45 to 60 cm tall. Pods are conical, about 5 to 8 cm long, and start dark purple with stripes or marble before they finish red. Flavor is smoky and a little fruity, with medium heat. Some plants throw thin Thai-shaped fruit and others thicker pods. Give it full sun and well-drained soil.

Backstory

North Carolina hybridizer Eric Knight named this line around 2022 for two growers who pulled him into pepper work, Rich Blood of Georgia and Jimmy Pickles. Blood grew the first generation. Bryan Townshend later selected the dwarf variegated plants now sold as Sport and related packets. Seed on the market is usually several generations on and can still segregate.

Appearance

ShapeConical

ColorPurple · Red

Size5–8 cm

Growing

SunFull

ClimateSubtropical

Plant height45–60 cm

Heritage

Explore

Pickles Blood is an F2+ of Uchu Cream and Scarlett's Chili, still splitting and not yet a finished line.

Eric Knight · 2022

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Sources

FAQ

How hot is Pickles Blood?: Capsi’s sourced range is 4,000–10,000 SHU (Vendor Claim). Capsi uses a sourced range and a trust tier, not a single marketing number. How we verify heat: https://web.thecapsi.app/learn/heat-and-capsaicin/how-we-measure-heat
What does Pickles Blood taste like?: Smoky and fruity, close to a jalapeño.
How do I grow Pickles Blood?: Pickles Blood: subtropical climate, full sun.
What can I substitute for Pickles Blood?: Fish Pepper, Jalapeño