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🌮 🌶️ 🍫 🍲 You can find them in your tacos, chocolate, and Pad Thai, and even your muscle cream, yes that’s right! 🌶️ They may be fiery red, brilliant orange, or deep green. What are these fascinating things? Hot peppers, of course!
These small fruit are native to South America. Specifically, they originated as vining plants in an area that is now part of Bolivia and Brazil. Thanks to cultivation and natural dispersion, we now have numerous varieties of hot peppers that grow in almost any sunny location.
🌶️ 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒔𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒑𝒆𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒔, “𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒐 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒘?” 𝑰𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒕, 𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒔, 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝒐𝒓 𝒋𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒑𝒆ñ𝒐𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒔. 𝑨𝒏𝒅, 𝒚𝒆𝒔, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕. 𝑨𝒔 𝒇𝒂𝒓 𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒐𝒕 𝒑𝒆𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒈𝒐, 𝒋𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒑𝒆ñ𝒐𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒆!
☀️ 🌶️ Jalapeños need full sun to blossom and set fruit. Choose a sunny place sheltered from the wind. They’re happy up to around 32°C.
🪱 💧 Soil should be well-draining and rich in organic matter.
💦 𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫. Chili peppers 𝐇𝐀𝐓𝐄 sitting in the wet. We can’t emphasize that enough. Too much water can disrupt the flow of nutrients around the plant, causing growth problems and weakening plant so they’re vulnerable to attack from pests and diseases.
But worst of all, too much water literally waters down the capsaicin in the developing fruits, quashing all those dreams of super-spicy chilies.
🌞 Happy growing 🌶️!
Translator
1moIs that because these species are difficult to grow in commercially viable quantities?