Left Continue shopping
Your Order

You have no items in your cart

You may like:
We ship to Ireland, Northern Ireland and the EU.

Buist's Yellow Cayenne Chilli Pepper heirloom Irish grown

€2,70 EUR
15

The Buist's yellow Cayenne chilli pepper is a variation of the red cayenne pepper that is said to have been made public in the US in the late 1900's. and legend has it that it bears the mean of a seedsman called Robert Buist. The Buist's yellow cayenne is a striking bright orange yellow chilli pepper with sometimes mild, sometimes hot, fabulous for making salsas or add to your plate. With a scoville heat unit of 1000 SHU, this generally mild and quite sweet pepper is also an excellent pepper for drying and dehydrating, providing you with an almost golden ground pepper powder that will have the most amazing effect sprinkled on a dish. The highly productive plants produce 4 to 5 inches flavorful pods that ripen from green to yellow and stand out in the polytunnel. The yellow cayenne peppers can be used in salsa and they can also be fried or added to a hot sauce. Seeds grown and seed saved in Cork, Ireland.

Scientific Name: Capsicum annuum

Plant Life Cycle: annual

Optimal Germination Temperature: 20C-24C

Germination time in days: 20-30 days

Indicative Days to maturity: 60-90 days

Sunlight: full sun

Soil requirement: well drained, non acidic

Sowing and cultivation: Sow indoors early spring 1"deep, 2" apart at a soil temperature of at least 18C. The plant is sensitive to temperature variations. Transplant outdoors when temperatures have warmed up and the last chance of frost has passed. Plant row apart 24". It is advised to grow this pepper in a greenhouse or sunny sheltered spot since they need high temperature to grow