CAP 215 Microcarpum Pepper Plant
CAP 215 Microcarpum is a pepper variety. Austin Peppers sells it as a live nursery-grown plant, shipped from South Texas.
Price: $15.00 USD
Species: C. annuum var. glabriusculum Pod form: Pequin/small bullet Heat: 50,000-100,000 SHU (Hot) Plant height: 12 to 18 inches Light: Full sun (6–8+ hrs) Growing temperature: 70-85°F (21-29°C) Planter size: 1 gallon minimum, optimally 3–5 gallons (11–19 liters) SKU: PP-CAP215MICROCARPUM-A An accession rather than a cultivar. CAP 215 is a collected wild glabriusculum, catalogued under its number because it was gathered before it was named. Small bullet pods, 50,000 to 100,000 SHU, on a compact plant of 12 to 18 inches.Peppers like this are the raw material every sweet bell in the world was eventually made from.What you are getting: a seedling, minimum 8 weeks old and at least 6 inches tall. It is not a finished plant. It will need transplanting into a container, so choose the container accordingly: these will grow in anything from a half gallon up, but the pot determines the yield in many cases, and some varieties do better than others in a small one.If it is going outside: harden it off first. Give it a few hours a day somewhere sheltered and out of direct sun, and build that up over a week or so before it lives outdoors full time. A seedling put straight out is a seedling you can lose.Feeding: do not fertilise for the first two weeks. After that, use a balanced fertiliser.More on this variety, and on growing peppers generally, at wikipepper.org.
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