Dedo de Moca Red Pepper Plant
Dedo de Moca Red is a pepper variety. Austin Peppers sells it as a live nursery-grown plant, shipped from South Texas. It is also known as Dedo de Moça, Girl's Finger, Girl's Finger (Portuguese), Dedo De Mocha Red, Dedo De Mocha.
Also known as: Dedo de Moça, Girl's Finger, Girl's Finger (Portuguese), Dedo De Mocha Red, Dedo De Mocha
Price: $15.00 USD
Species: C. baccatum Mature pod color: Red Pod form: Long/tapered Heat: 8,000-25,000 SHU (Medium) Days until harvest: Late 80-90 Plant height: 36 to 42 inches Light: Full sun (6–8+ hrs) Growing temperature: 70-85°F (21-29°C) Planter size: 1 gallon minimum, optimally 7–10 gallons (26–38 liters) SKU: PP-DEDODEMOCARED-B 8,000 to 25,000 SHU is medium heat: noticeable, not the kind you have to plan your afternoon around. Red long tapered pods on a Capsicum baccatum plant that runs 36 to 42 inches and needs a large 7 to 10 gallon container. It is a late one, 80 to 90 days before the first ripe pods, and it also shows up in catalogs as Dedo de Moca Red.This plant is still growing and is not ready to ship yet.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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