RED Biquinho Pepper (live PLANTS) SWEET TEARDROP

lIVE Pepper PLANTS ,Biquinho RED    (Biquinho Amarela)     

Wonderful yellow strain of the popular brazilian biquinho. Beautiful as garnish in dishes. Also great as pickled peppers. Like the red strain, this one has very little heat (depending though on the growing conditions), like perhaps the Aji Dulce, with a sweet, fruity and peppery flavor typical of C. chinense.

This variety is both a nice ornamental and a tasty treat. Grows relatively well even in the north (southern Quebec); peppers start turning yellow towards the end of August. Small peppers (2,5 cm) with uniquely shaped "beaks" ("biquinho" meaning "small beak" in portuguese) . Around 100 days. Hard to find outside Brazil. Capsicum chinense.

We plant all of our peppers with a good shovel full of compost in the planting hole, and then give them a good dose of compost tea every few weeks for the first 6 weeks of growth.  We also mulch around each of our pepper plants with a good 1 to 2″ thick layer of compost.

Peppers do very well grown in pots.