How to Grow Numex Twilight Chilli Pepper?

ZonaOrganik.Com - How to Grow Numex Twilight Chilli Pepper? - Numex Twilight (Capsicum annuum, Chili Pepper) is one of the varieties of chili of featured developed at New Mexico State University, a university that creates all kinds of plants offspring "NuMex"). This plant can grow up to 18 inches. Numex Twilight Becomes covered in peppers that start out purple, then turn yellow and orange, and finally red when ripe. This is the great attraction NuMex that can produce a rainbow effect on green plants.

NuMex Twilight chili has a Scoville rating 30000-50000, the same spicy with a cayenne pepper. Numex Twilight is colorful pepper plants are suitable to be placed on the front porch. Amazing view when looking at this pepper plants bear fruit. Although the fruit is small, but this chili has a medium level of spiciness.

The colourful chillies ripen through a rainbow of colours as they mature from purple to yellow to orange to red. This neat compact variety makes a superb ornamental edible that can be grown outdoors on the patio, or in the greenhouse for even heavier yields. Height: 60cm (24"). Spread: 45cm (18").

How to grow chilli peppers?

This plant very ideal for patio, kitchen garden, greenhouse, conservatory. Numex Twilight need full sun sine, so must be place out door to get full sun.

How to sow?

Sow Chilli Pepper seeds on the surface of a good, free-draining, damp, seed sowing mix, and cover with a fine sprinkling of compost or vermiculite. Place seed trays in a propagator at a temperature of 18-25C (64-77F) until after germination, which takes 7-10 days. Do not exclude light as this helps germination.

When seedlings are large enough to handle, transplant into individual 7.5cm (3") pots of compost and grow on in cooler conditions. When plants are well grown and all risk of frost has passed, transplant them into grow bags and containers, or plant them in well prepared beds of fertile, moist, well drained soil. Chili peppers may be grown undercover in a greenhouse or polytunnel, or grown outdoors in a sheltered position in full sun. When growing chilli peppers outdoors, gradually acclimatise them to outdoor conditions over a period of 7 to 10 days prior to transplanting them. Space pepper plants at a distance of 50cm (20") apart.

Aftercare:

Water chilli pepper plants regularly throughout the growing season and feed weekly with a high potash tomato fertiliser once the first fruits have set. Taller varieties of chilli peppers may require staking. Provide a thick mulch of organic matter around the base of the plants to help conserve moisture and reduce weed growth. In greenhouses, maintain high humidity by damping down paths daily. Harvest chillies singly by cutting them from the plant with secateurs or pull the entire plant when full of red peppers, and hang upside down in the kitchen for use all year round.

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Let's Grow Numex Twilight Chilli Pepper in our yard and enjoy it!