Cayenne Red is a very productive chilli pepper and matures from green to red with a medium heat. 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.

Cayenne Red Chilli Seed Information

Seeds Per Pack:	20
Sow Hot Scale:
Scoville Rating:	30,000 - 50,000 SHU (View the Scoville Scale)
When to Sow:	January - April
Time to Fruit:	70 days
Harvest:	August - October

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