Botanical Interests 0166 Vegetable Seed, Chile Pepper, Capsicum Annuum, Late Summer Planting, Fall, Winter Harvest
Pencil thin cayenne peppers are used fresh in hot sauces and chilis, dried or ground for cayenne pepper or red pepper flakes, as a flavor in oil and vinegar dressing and strung on a string as an attractive southwestern style decoration called a ristra. Prolific plants produce green, 4 to 6 in peppers that turn either red or yellow very decorative in the garden. 30000 to 50000 scoville heat units (hot).