Purple Flowered Baccatum Pepper Plant
Purple Flowered Baccatum is a pepper variety. Austin Peppers sells it as a live nursery-grown plant, shipped from South Texas.
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-PURPLEFLOWEREDBACCATUM-B The purple blossoms give this C. baccatum away before a single pod sets. It is a tall plant, 36 to 42 inches, and worth the large 7 to 10 gallon container it asks for. Pods run long and tapered, ripen red, and land between 8,000 and 25,000 SHU, heat you can use without bracing for it.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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