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A cayenne pepper plant is a productive, easy-to-grow hot pepper perfect for anyone that wants medium-hot fruits. Grow them in garden beds or pots and expect each plant to yield dozens of slender glossy peppers. The 4 to 6 inch long fruits are typically green maturing to red and can be eaten fresh, dried, or used for hot sauce. In this article you’ll learn all about how to plant, grow, and harvest cayenne peppers from your garden.
Cayenne pepper plant facts
Cayenne pepper plants (Capsicum annuum) are incredibly popular in home gardens thanks to their ease of cultivation, high productivity, and bounty of medium-hot fruits. With most varieties those fruits are green maturing to a glossy red, but there are some with purple or yellow ripe fruits. Purple cayenne peppers are particularly eye-catching. The fruits are long and slender, growing 4 to 6 inches in length and taper to a curved point.They mature 75 to 80 days after transplanting the seedlings.
Cayenne pepper plants grow 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 feet tall and have white to white-purple flowers. They thrive in garden beds but are also perfect for pots. If you’re wondering how hot the peppers are, cayenne fruits are rated between 30,000 and 50,000 on the Scoville Scale which measures the “heat” of chili peppers. They’re hotter than jalapeños, but milder than habaneros.
Hot and sweet peppers are grown as annuals in most gardens but are perennials in their native Central and South America. You can, however, overwinter pepper plants indoors in a sunny window or under a grow light if you wish to keep the harvest going.
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