Hot pepper.

Related to sweet pepper, and a different crop to build for

Hot pepper shares a genus with sweet pepper and almost nothing else that matters to a greenhouse design. Fruit size, plant habit, cycle length and the quality metric are all different, and the quality metric in particular — pungency — has no counterpart in a sweet pepper crop at all. Demand is driven by specific culinary markets rather than by the volume retail channels sweet pepper serves.

Because pungent types span several species and a very wide range of plant forms, there is no single hot pepper crop to design around. A compact ornamental-scale plant and a tall indeterminate type place entirely different demands on structure, spacing and labour, and the choice belongs to the market being supplied.

Hot pepper is its own family rather than a variant of sweet pepper, and the house is drawn for the specific crop. Plant form decides structure, spacing and support; the heat specification decides how tightly the climate has to be held; and the sale form — fresh, dried or processed — decides the harvest and the pack area.

DutchGreenhouses® designs the structure, climate, screening and irrigation around the pepper actually being grown, its cultivar and the local climate, rather than assuming a sweet pepper envelope will transfer. Get in touch to discuss a hot pepper project.