Hot Pepper 'Tepin'

My plant is 6 years old . It starts to give fruit in june , but better flavor when they turn red .
Wife waters 2 or 3 times a wee...Read Morek . It is in a bout a 3 gallon pot . It gets 2 or 3 jobes food stacks after leaves fall off , I wait a week or 2 and repot . When done , I put a black plastic bag around pot [ we have black beetles and the grubs like the roots ] The pot is left in walkway next to house on bench above dryer vent .
It does not smell to smell , but when it flowers , my Brugs are flowering . bees like the flowers , humming birds ignore it , but there are a lot of other plants close they like .
I is about 3-4 feet tall and a slow grower .

I transplanted one from south Texas four years ago, where it is commonly called "chile petin" Every year it dies to the ground then ret...Read Moreurns bigger and better in the spring.

This is a very productive plant with few problems, the fruit are small, but are the hottest of all I have grown, they take about 200 days...Read More to get ripe fruit ,so must be started early for most growers. I think they are worth the wait if it is heat you want.-- and-- My crazy Peacocks love them,

According to the Capsicum Database: "Most experts believe the Tepin, also called Chiltepin, is the original wild chile - the plant from w...Read Morehich all others have evolved. It is a tiny round berry slightly larger than a peppercorn. It is very decorative and bright scarlet in colour and, despite its high heat level, it is attractive to wild birds, who helped to distribute it across the prehistoric Americas." It is promoted by some as the world's hottest pepper.