Cayenne Red Chilli Seeds

Overview

Cayenne Red is a very productive chilli pepper. The peppers are long & thin (12cm long by 1.5cm) and mature from green to red with a medium heat.

Cayenne Red chillies are great dried and used as Cayenne Pepper.

Cayenne Red has been cultivated & used in cooking from as long ago as 4,000BC. It was brought from Chile to Portugal in the late 1400's by Christopher Colombus. From there it was shipped to Asia by Vasco da Gama where it is a staple ingredient in Asian cookery and where most of the world's chillies are now grown.

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Seed qty (approx)	20
Sowing months	January, February, March, April
Sow hot scale	Hot
Scoville Rating	30,000 - 50,000 SHU
Fruits	70 days
Harvest	August - October
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