Tabasco Chile Pepper seed Capsicum annuum ‘Tabasco’
LATIN NAME: CAPSICUM ANNUUM ‘TABASCO’
COMMON NAME: Tabasco Pepper
The tabasco pepper candles the upright, branching annual chilli with the smooth, oval, pointed, dark-green leaves and the small, white flowers, the slender, tapering, red peppers standing upright on the stems, the thin walls holding the fiery, amber flesh. It grows steadily into the neat, bushy form, and it stands the warm, humid summers well. It likes the sun, and the deep, fertile, well-drained soil.
Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology
The tabasco pepper is central to the studies of the pungent chilli cultivars, and the Tabasco variety appears in the work on the capsaicin levels and the upright-fruiting capsicums. The research looks at the way the small peppers hold the intense heat, the fruit colour change, and the seed biology. The breeders keep the sauce value in view, and the growers of the chilli and kitchen-garden plants list the pepper in their catalogues.
Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications
In the kitchen garden, the tabasco pepper candles the red fruits upright among the green leaves. The thin-fleshed peppers carry the heat of the famous sauce, the white flowers open through the season, and the plant makes the fine pot, the greenhouse plant and the sauce ingredient. It thrives in the deep, fertile, sunny ground. Upright-fruited, fiery-fleshed and sauce-born.
To grow the Tabasco Pepper from seed, sow the seeds in a tray of light seed compost.
Sow the seeds in a tray of light seed compost, and keep the young plants in the warm, sunny spot. The red candles ripen through the warm season. , keeping them warm and moist, keep the tray lightly watered, and the young plants come through as the warmth holds. The red candles ripen through the warm season.
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Uses: Culinary/Medicinal
The chile pepper used to make the famous hot sauce of the same name. Its origin is the southern Mexican state of Tabasco, but it is now principally in Louisiana and other Gulf states. Attractive: fruits point upright, changing from yellow to orange and finally to bright red at which stage they are harvested. Compact bushes 30-120cm/12-48high can bear as much as 100 chiles each. Heat: 9.
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