Purple Tiger Pepper Plant
Purple Tiger is a C. annuum pepper variety, rated medium at roughly 6,000 Scoville heat units, producing purple pods. Austin Peppers sells it as a live nursery-grown plant, shipped from South Texas. It is also known as Variegato.
Also known as: Variegato
Heat Level: Medium (6,000 SHU)
Species: C. annuum
Pod Color: Purple
Price: $15.00 USD
Species: C. annuum Mature pod color: Purple Pod form: Standard tapered Heat: 2,000-10,000 SHU (Medium) Days until harvest: Mid 70-80 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 5–7 gallons (19–26 liters) SKU: PP-PURPLETIGER-A Ripe pods come mid-season, in roughly 70 to 80 days. Those pods are purple, standard tapered annuum fruit at 2,000-10,000 SHU, medium heat with an actual bite. A tidy 24-to-30-inch plant that does fine in a medium container.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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