Dark Blood Pepper Plant
Dark Blood 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 Mature pod color: Red Pod form: Standard tapered Heat: 5,000-30,000 SHU (Medium) Days until harvest: Late 80-90 Plant height: 24 to 30 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-DARKBLOOD-A Medium heat you can plan around, 5,000 to 30,000 SHU, on standard tapered pods that finish a deep red. It wants warmth, 82 to 90°F, and it is a heavy setter once established.Sixty of these germinated out of a sixty-four cell tray this season, which is close to the best rate anything here managed. If you have had trouble getting peppers going, this is a forgiving one to start with.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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