The Aji Oro Rocoto is a yellow rocoto chilli with thick walled, apple shaped pods and a clean, rounded heat. This Capsicum pubescens carries the characteristic rocoto flavour, fresh and sweet, with a steady warmth that builds without overwhelming. Heat typically sits between 30,000 and 100,000 SHU. Pods ripen from green to a rich golden yellow and are well suited to stuffing, fresh salsas and cooked sauces where body matters. Originating in the Andean regions of Peru and Bolivia, plants take longer to mature than most chillies but reward patience with heavy, late harvests. I find Rocotos cope well with cooler UK summers and perform best in large pots or greenhouse beds. These are often the last plants still alive when the winter cold pushes in.
Species: Capsicum pubescens
Scoville (SHU): 30,000–100,000
Origin: Peru, Bolivia
Time to Fruit: 120–150 days
Culinary Uses: Stuffing, fresh salsas, cooked sauces
Seeds Quality
Every seed we sell is grown at the ChilliChump homestead, so we control the whole process from sowing to harvest. Seeds are handpicked from healthy plants, processed using methods we’ve refined over the years, and germination-tested before they reach you.
Keeping our seed true to type is something we work hard at. The only way to truly isolate a chilli variety, though, is to grow it with no other chilli plant within a quarter of a mile to a mile, and no grower with a collection can do that. So we don’t claim 100% purity. The chance of a stray cross is small. If something grows out differently to what you expected, please get in touch. We’d rather hear about it than not.
You can read what other growers think in our reviews, and the ChilliChump YouTube channel follows these plants through every season, so you can see exactly where your seeds come from.
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