NuMex Bailey Pequin Pepper Plant
NuMex Bailey Pequin is a pepper variety. Austin Peppers sells it as a live nursery-grown plant, shipped from South Texas. It is also known as Bailey Piquín, NMSU Bailey Piquin, NuMex Bailey Pequín, Numex Bailey Piquin, NMSU Bailey Piquín.
Also known as: Bailey Piquín, NMSU Bailey Piquin, NuMex Bailey Pequín, Numex Bailey Piquin, NMSU Bailey Piquín
Price: $15.00 USD
Species: C. annuum var. glabriusculum Mature pod color: Red Pod form: Long/tapered Heat: 100,000–140,000 SHU (Hot) 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-NUMEXBAILEYPEQUIN-A Out of New Mexico State University's Chile Pepper Institute, this piquín is a C. annuum var. glabriusculum with actual credentials. The long tapered pods ripen red and carry 100,000 to 140,000 SHU, serious heat from a plant that stays 24 to 30 inches. Patience required: harvest lands in the late 80 to 90 day range.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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