Slim 12mm fruit, 50-100mm long, changes to red when fully mature. Hot flavour in cooking, dried can be used in sauces and soups and decoratively, mostly used powdered. Cold tea used against aphids. Sow spring, summer, or anytime as potted plant. 70-75 days. Heat 8.
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General information:
Chilli
Grown the same as sweet Capsicum. Used fresh or dried and suited for pickling. Range from mildest Heat 1 to hottest Heat 10.
120-160 seeds per gram.
Chilli planting information:
| Tropics: | All Year |
| Subtropic: | Aug-Mar |
| Mild: | Aug-Dec |
| Cold/Frost: | Sep-Nov |
| Plant space cm: | 40-50 |
| Row space cm: | 90-120 |
| Depth cm: | 0.6 |
| Best soil temp: | 18-35 °C |
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| Number of seeds per gram: | 130-190 |
| Rate per hectare: | 500g |
| Average days to maturity: | 65-80 |
