Hot Chilli Pepper Numex Twilight (Capsicum frutescens) seeds

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Hot Chilli Pepper 'Numex Twilight' (Capsicum frutescens) seeds

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Numex Twilight is not only productive but beautiful with a rainbow of colours! It is a small-leaved variety that grows up to half a meter and produces whole a lot of small, medium-hot chilies that are held upright on the plant and reach approx. 3cm. They mature from purple to yellow to orange and finally red - it looks very pretty and is also lovely as a patio container plant.

This attractive variety was cultivated by Dr. Paul Bosland in 1992 (Chile Pepper Institute of the New Mexico State University), based on a chili plant that was discovered wildly growing in Jalisco (Mexico). Numex Twilight is used fresh in salsas, dried, or pickled.

Numex Twilight seeds, approx. 10 seeds

Plant description

Lifecycle:	Perennial
Eventual height:	80-120 cm
Flowering months:	June July August September
Flower colour:	White
Special features:	Open-pollinated
Species:	Solanaceae
Root system:	Heart roots

Growing advice

Sowing depth:	0.5 cm
When to sow outdoors:
Good companion plants:	Lettuce Beans Nasturtium Knoblauch Marigold
Germination temperature:	25-30°C
Planting distance:	40 cm
Row spacing:	40 cm
Bad companion plants:	Potatoes Celeriac Tomatoes Peas Cucumber
Sunlight:	Full sun

Sow into a warm greenhouse in late winter to early spring. The seeds usually germinate in 3 - 4 weeks at 20°C. Prick out the seedlings into individual pots of rich soil. Requires a very warm sunny position, it's frost-sensitive and usually cultivated as an annual in a greenhouse or inside on your windowsill. If you grow it undercover, the harvest is bigger, but it can be grown outside once well established.
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