Honey Badger Rocoto Pepper Plant
Honey Badger Rocoto is a pepper variety. Austin Peppers sells it as a live nursery-grown plant, shipped from South Texas.
Price: $10.00 USD
Species: C. pubescens Mature pod color: Red Pod form: Apple/bell Heat: 30,000-100,000 SHU (Hot) Days until harvest: Extremely Late 120+ Plant height: 36 to 42 inches Light: Full sun (6–8+ hrs) Growing temperature: 60-75°F (16-24°C) Planter size: 1 gallon minimum, optimally 7–10 gallons (26–38 liters) SKU: PP-MANZANOHONEYBADGER-P A rocoto, and the same plant as the one listed elsewhere as Honey Badger Rocoto. Manzano and rocoto are two names for Capsicum pubescens, the apple-shaped Andean species with hairy leaves, purple flowers and black seed.25,000 to 35,000 SHU, which sits at the gentler end for the species.Pubescens is the slowest of the five cultivated species and the least tolerant of real heat. It came from Andean altitude and it still behaves as though it lives there.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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