Flexuosum Pepper Plant
Flexuosum is a pepper variety. Austin Peppers sells it as a live nursery-grown plant, shipped from South Texas.
Price: $15.00 USD
Species: C. flexuosum Mature pod color: Red Pod form: Standard tapered Heat: 10,000-40,000 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-FLEXUOSUM-W A wild species out of the Mata Atlântica, the Atlantic forest running along Brazil's southeastern coast, and one of the few Capsicums that has never been brought into cultivation in any real sense.It carries a botanical oddity worth knowing: C. flexuosum has 24 chromosomes where most of the wild Brazilian species have 26. That difference is part of why the wild Capsicums do not cross with the domesticated ones as freely as growers would like. Violet flowers, and a plant of 24 to 30 inches.Growing one of these is closer to keeping a specimen than raising a crop.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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