Capsicum annuum ‘Tabasco’ Seeds | Tabasco Chile Pepper
LATIN NAME: Capsicum annuum ‘Tabasco’
COMMON NAME: Tabasco Pepper
Plant Profile
Tabasco Pepper (Capsicum annuum ‘Tabasco’) is an annual. It grows steadily into neat, bushy form, and it stands warm, humid summers well. It likes sun, and deep, fertile, well-drained soil. Bees and other pollinators visit the flowers freely through the season. Few species give back so generously for so little effort.
Science & Biotechnology
Capsicum annuum ‘Tabasco’ sits in the Capsicum group, a group that keeps botanists, horticulturists and plant breeders busy with questions of classification, adaptation and ornamental potential. Tabasco pepper is central to studies of pungent chilli cultivars, and the Tabasco variety appears in work on capsaicin levels and upright-fruiting capsicums. Nothing exotic is required: standard seed-sowing practice, done carefully, is enough.
Uses & Benefits
Tabasco Pepper works well in borders, containers and dedicated beds. In kitchen garden, tabasco pepper candles red fruits upright among green leaves. Thin-fleshed peppers carry heat of famous sauce, white flowers open through season, and plant makes fine pot, greenhouse plant and sauce ingredient. It thrives in deep, fertile, sunny ground. It takes hold quickly and asks for no special treatment from then on.
Chili pepper’s fire is capsaicin, one of the most useful plant molecules in medicine: topical capsaicin preparations are approved for nerve and arthritis pain, and population studies link regular chili eating with metabolic and cardiovascular benefits. Beyond the heat, peppers are superb sources of vitamin C.
Growing from Seed
Tabasco Pepper is one of those generous plants that come along well from seed. Fill a pot with a light seed compost, sow evenly on the surface, cover thinly and stand it somewhere warm, bright and evenly moist. Prick the seedlings out once they are large enough to handle, grow them on in bright light, and plant out when conditions allow.
Our Take
It forms an annual, which makes spacing and siting straightforward. Beginners will find it patient of imperfect technique.
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