Re: [CH] PEPPERS AND SHADE V8 #502
Brent Thompson (brent@hplbct.hpl.hp.com)
Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:13:22 -0800
> Do they shade Scotch bonnets in the Caribbean?
I sure would be surprised if they did.
Probably everywhere in Caribbean ambient humidity is essentially always
what we would consider high (like maybe 75-100%)), and due to ocean
proximity probably nowhere in Caribbean does temperature get really high
(sure, it will occasionally get 105-110 F or so, but again, 110 F at 80-90%
humidity is significantly different from 110 F at 2-20% humidity, for
high-transpiration-rate plants).
So, climatic conditions are such that we would naturally expect one of the
most commonly grown chile species in Caribbean to be C. chinense, and it
is, just as we would not expect C. chinense to be commonly grown in most of
Mexico (i.e., outside Yucatan peninsula region) or SW USA, and it is not.
--- Brent