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.

How To Create Your Own Dried Cayenne Chilli Powder
Pierce each chilli with a knife and leave on a sunny windowsill to dry for 2-3 weeks, or dry overnight in a low at 50c, or in a food dehydrator.

After the chillies have dried, wearing gloves, remove the stems and seeds and slice the thicker peppers into rings and the thinner peppers in half. Grind the chillies in a food processor and store in an airtight container ready to use or to make into your own blend of Cayenne powder.

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

When to Sow your Cayenne Red Chilli Seeds

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