CAYENNE Pepper

Species : Pepper
Latin Name : Capsiucum Annuum L.
Inscription in the europeen catalog as : De Cayenne - Cayenna - Cayenne Long Slim
Other usual names : Bird's Beak - Chilliepin - Mad Pepper - Guinea Pepper - fr. Piment Enrage - Poivre de Cayenne - de. Cayennepfeffer - Pepe di Caienna - es. Guindilla - Pimentén Picante
Variety : De Cayenne
Family : Solanaceae
Origin :  Central and South America

Cayenne Pepper : This variety is mainly used fresh, dried and ground for cooking spicy hot dishes. Fruits are small red, and fiery spicy, it's an excellent source of vitamin A. Cayenne is the greatest blood stimulant known, also used to treat sore throats, headaches and toothaches. Pepper is a warm season vegetable.

Seed sowing : From February to April
Pepper Harvesting : 95 to 115 days after sowing
Hight : Peppers usually reach 60 cm.
Exposition : Full sun

Sowing instructions : Peppers are best started under chassis or in greenhouse in February to April, in a depht of 1 cm. Germination sometimes difficult see, that you got 2 times more seeds, then plants wanted. Place seedlings in pots when they have two leaves, keep them inside until the middle of Mai when there is no more danger of frost, when soil and air is warmed up you will bee able to transplant seedlings 50 to 60 cm apart directly in a sunny place of your garden.

Sowing space : 50 to 60 cm between plants
Minimum seed sowing temperature : 18 to 20 °C
Seed germination : 10 to 15 days
Calories : 22 Kcal for 100 gr

Net weight of seeds : 2 gr = +/- 230 graines

All our seeds are sold with their sowing instructions.