Habanada Pepper Vegetable Seeds Packet

SKU: SEHABA

Pre-order · Shipping January 10, 2027
Regular price $2.35

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NON-GMO
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Build Your Garden With These Shido Seeds

Choose a seed packet as your starting point, then round out the bed with these for that thrown-together-but-somehow-perfect harvest.


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Seed specifications
  • Material: Seed
  • Botanical name: Capsicum chinense
  • Genus: Capsicum
  • Plant family: Solanaceae
  • Species: Chinense
  • Plant type: Annual (tender perennial)
  • Pollination type: Vegetable
  • USDA Hardiness Zones: 4-11
  • Packet contents: ≈ 20 Seeds
  • Packaging: Hermetically vacuum-sealed
  • Non-GMO: Yes
  • Seed viability: Up to 10 years (sealed) / 4–5 years (unsealed, ideal conditions)
  • Difficulty: Moderate - Recreational Gardener
Sowing & growing guide

Quick Sowing Guide:

  • When to sow: Start indoors 8-10 wks before last frost; transplant after soil is 65°F+
  • Sowing depth: 1/4 in
  • Initial spacing: 18-24 in
  • Row spacing: 24-36 in
  • Days to germination: 14-21 days
  • Light: Full sun
  • Water: Regular, even moisture
  • Soil: Rich, well-drained loam, pH 6.0–6.8
  • Harvest: 90-100 days from transplant

Start Growing: Step-by-step sowing and growing guide

About vacuum sealing

Why Vacuum-Sealed Seeds Last Longer

Standard paper seed packets are permeable to oxygen and moisture -- the two primary causes of seed degradation. Most paper-packaged seeds begin losing germination viability after approximately one year, contributing to significant garden-industry waste: packets purchased, not planted, expired, discarded. Shido Seeds are hermetically vacuum-sealed. The packet does not expire quietly in a drawer. It waits.

About the Packaging

Every Shido seed packet is illustrated in the style of Japanese 1910s woodblock printing -- designed and drawn in-house by Chive, that has been exhibiting at the Chelsea Flower Show in London every year and does not, as a matter of principle, sell to big-box retailers. Customers collect the packets as a series. This was not the original plan.

Satisfaction Guarantee

We stand by the quality of our flower seed packets! Every Shido seed packet is lab-tested for germination before it ships. If your seeds do not perform to the stated germination rate under correct growing conditions, contact us and we will replace or refund. Guaranteed!

Horticultural Specifications

Botanical

Capsicum chinense

Plant Type

Annual (tender perennial)

Light

Full sun

Water

Regular, even moisture

Soil

Rich, well-drained loam, pH 6.0–6.8

Depth

1/4 in

Germination

14-21 days

USDA Zone

4-11

Mature Height

24-36 in

Harvest

90-100 days from transplant


Getting to know your Habanada


History & origin

Step-by-Step Sowing & Growing Guide

Getting Started

Annual (tender perennial), start indoors

Step 1: Timing - Start indoors 8-10 wks before last frost; transplant after soil is 65°F+.

Step 2: Soil - Rich, well-drained loam, pH 6.0–6.8.

Step 3: Sowing - 1/4 in deep. Germination takes 14-21 days at 80-85°F.

Step 4: Spacing - Thin or transplant to 18-24 in apart in rows 24-36 in apart.

Step 5: Care - Full sun; regular, even moisture.

Step 6: Harvest - 90-100 days from transplant. Habanada is a habanero with the heat bred out — all the floral, tropical aroma and none of the burn, so pick it fully orange for the most flavor.

Before you start

Materials needed to sow

Materials for harvest and storage

Growth Requirements

Maintenance

Troubleshooting and common mistakes

Culinary uses & nutritional information

What it's used for

What parts are edible

Nutritional data

Companion plants, pests & diseases

Companion planting

Pests

Diseases

Pro Tip

Start Habanada indoors on a heat mat and transplant into warm soil, then wait — Capsicum chinense ripens slowly, and the 2–3 inch pods turn from green to glowing orange over a long season. Bred at Cornell and released in 2014, it is the first truly heatless habanero.

Bonus: Eat it raw like a fruit — the aroma is the whole point.

Seeds worth keeping

What makes Shido Seeds different

Shido Seeds are designed by Chive Studio, a ceramic design company. We are not a seed conglomerate. We do not sell through big-box retailers. Each variety in the catalog was selected because it is worth growing — not because it ships well in bulk or photographs well in marketing materials.

Every packet is germination-tested at an independent third-party lab before it earns its woodblock illustration. The vacuum seal removes the oxygen that causes standard paper packets to degrade. The stated germination rate is a floor, not a marketing figure.

If something goes wrong, contact us. We will make it right.

Plants that Grow together look good together...even if they are ceramic

Set of Chive Shido Seeds packets with fruit and flower illustrations on a soil background.

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Browse Shido's vegetable seed lineup for every other crop that shares a bed, a season, or a trellis with this one.

Flowers That Never Need Watering

Seeds ask for patience; Chive's ceramic wall flowers are in bloom the moment they are unwrapped, designed in the same studio since 2004.

The credentials behind the packet

Chive Studio started as a ceramics workshop and grew, one collection at a time, into seeds, vases, and everything else now carrying its name. Shido Seeds is the newest branch of that same tree, built on the belief that a seed packet deserves the same attention to material and design as a ceramic vase does. That is why every variety, pepper included, ships vacuum-sealed rather than paper-packed, and why the packaging is illustrated rather than merely printed.

Frequently asked questions

The seed is the start. Verte RX handles the rest.

Most seedlings fail not from bad seed but from soil that runs out of what the plant needs before the plant can find it. Verte RX is a liquid plant vitamin formulated for exactly that window — the weeks after germination when the root system is establishing and the margin between thriving and stalling is narrowest.