Biquinho pepper plants

Little beak, almost no burn. A Brazilian snack pepper that happens to be a chinense.

By Debra Austin

Species: Capsicum chinense

The beak is the whole variety

Biquinho means little beak in Portuguese. The pod is a small teardrop with a point that hooks. It is a Capsicum chinense, the species of habanero and bonnet, and it skipped the heat. Pink Biquinho is listed at 0 to 1,000 SHU. Black Biquinho is listed at 500 to 1,000. You can eat one whole.

Brazil pickles them and sets them out with cheese. The flavor is sweet and a little floral, which is the chinense talking without the burn.

Pink and black

Those are the two we grow. Pink is the familiar one. Black ripens dark, which is the same pepper in a different color, not a hotter one. The numbers above are close on purpose. If you want heat, this is the wrong page.

A red biquinho exists in the world. It is not in our catalog right now.

How hot a biquinho is

Pink Biquinho is listed at 0 to 1,000 SHU. Black Biquinho is 500 to 1,000. You can eat them whole. They are not a shishito, and they do not hide a random hot pod the way a padron does.

Growing them

Species still matters. A biquinho is a chinense, so it is slower to get going than a jalapeno and it wants warmth. The mild pod does not make it a fast plant. Give it a 3 to 5 gallon pot and a warm spot.

The plants stay modest and they set a lot of little pods. Pick them once the color is true. Green biquinho is edible and duller.

biquinho on WikiPepper

The Biquinho we grow

Questions people ask

How hot is a biquinho?

Pink Biquinho is listed at 0 to 1,000 SHU. Black Biquinho is listed at 500 to 1,000 SHU.