Malawi Piquante/Peppadew Pepper Plant
Malawi Piquante/Peppadew is a pepper variety. Austin Peppers sells it as a live nursery-grown plant, shipped from South Texas. It is also known as African Cherry Pepper, Malawi, Malawi Piquante, Piquante, Piquante Peppadew, Piquanté.
Also known as: African Cherry Pepper, Malawi, Malawi Piquante, Piquante, Piquante Peppadew, Piquanté
Price: $15.00 USD
Species: C. baccatum Mature pod color: Red Pod form: Round/tomato/cherry/marbles Heat: approximately 1,177 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-MALAWIPEPPADEW-B Found growing wild by Johan Steenkamp on a property in Limpopo province, South Africa, in 1993. A Capsicum baccatum with cherry-sized round pods that ripen a deep red.Very mild at around 1,177 SHU, sweet with a tang behind it. The walls are thick and the pod is hollow once the core is out, which is why this shape ends up stuffed more often than chopped, and why it pickles better than almost anything else here.Also called Malawi Piquante, Piquanté, Sweet Piquanté and African Cherry Pepper depending on who is selling it.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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