Plants are generally placed 18 to 24 inches apart. Like most other vegetable crops, peppers like well-drained, fertile soil. If you get your plants out too soon, you can cover them with floating row covers to protect them from cooler temperatures. Some people will lay black plastic mulch around their plants to warm the soil in the spring to avoid some of these issues. Therefore, wait to plant your peppers until low are consistently in the 50s. Plants will grow poorly (yellow leaves, drop flowers) and slowly if temperatures are below 50-55ᵒF. Peppers don’t like cool, wet soils and will not tolerate frosts. Like tomatoes, peppers are best started from seed or purchased as transplants. Compared to their tomato cousins, they like somewhat higher temperatures, grow more slowly and are smaller than most tomato plants. Peppers are another of the Solanaceous crops (tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants). While most of the peppers grown in the home garden are different types of Capsicum annuum, there are actually five species of domesticated peppers.Īnaheim, Banana, Bell, Cayenne, Hungarian Wax, Jalapeno, Medusa, Poblano, and SerranoĬarolina Reaper, Datil, Ghost Pepper, Habanero, Scotch Bonnet, and Trinidad Scorpion Contrary to popular belief, capsaicin is in the membrane (the white part) of the fruit, not in the seeds. Hot peppers get their heat, or spiciness, from capsaicin.

However, hot peppers, sometimes referred to as chilies, have become increasingly popular. Bell peppers are the most popular types of peppers grown in the U.S. Peppers ( Capsicum spp.) are very-tender, warm-season perennial plants that we treat as annuals. In addition to their culinary uses, peppers can also make great additions to ornamental beds due to their bright colors. From the bright colors of sweet bell peppers to the face-melting heat of the Carolina Reaper, there is a pepper for any taste.

They come in a variety of different shapes, sizes, and heat. In just 90 days you will get these peppers, so the planting is always the traditional one.Peppers are a popular plant in the home garden. The very spicy jalapeño is fabulous, green, although some can come out with reddish color, pieces of about 10 or 15 cm in size and a flavor that, as you can imagine, is highly characteristic. We are talking about the very spicy jalapeño pepper, a type of vegetable that is being used a lot at the moment, since spicy food is on the rise throughout our country, as you may have seen by the number of exotic restaurants that open and that need this kind of elements for their menus, because they are the only way to give that extreme spicy flavor so characteristic. We offer you an exceptional product, in a bag of one hundred seeds, the perfect amount to make the sowing highly productive and positive. Very spicy jalapeño pepper seeds, 100 seeds. You can fertilize the land before planting with some manure or compost, it is best to soak the seeds for 24 hours before sowing. In seedbeds it takes 10 to 20 days to be born while outdoors it can take a little longer. It is best to always sow in seedlings indoors and then chime the plants outside when they have several pairs of leaves. It can be sown outdoors if night temperatures exceed 10 degrees, they must be buried no more than 2cm and planted at distances of not less than 50cm between plants.

The pepper requires organic and loose sandy soils, it does not withstand the waterlogging that ends up producing fungi and rotting it, so it must be grown in a soil that drains well like almost all vegetables. The pepper develops in optimal condition at a temperature of 20-25ºc during the day and 15-20ºc at night, below that range it tends to slow down its growth and above 35✬ problems arise. It is an extremely hot pepper that presents in general a wide variety of forms in its fruit and its cultivation is identical to the rest of chili peppers and a spiciness very close to that of Carolina reaper hp22b (probably somewhat lower). This chili called Carolina black reaper is a somewhat darker variety of the Purple reaper, it has fruits in some cases of a very bright black color that redden when ripe.

Black reaper pepper