Grow guide
How to grow Hot Paper Lantern
Capsicum chinense
- Type
- Pepper
- Zones
- USDA zones 3–11
- Sun
- Full
- Time to harvest
- 80–90 days
- Spacing
- 18″ apart
- Density
- 1 per sq ft
- Habit
- Upright
- Frost tolerance
- Tender
- Sowing
- Start indoors, then transplant
- Start indoors
- 8 weeks before last frost
Care
- Water Weekly
- Fertilize At transplant
- Harvest As needed
Notes
Earlier-maturing habanero with elongated 3-4" wrinkled red fruits; bred for shorter seasons, 90 days to ripe red from transplant.
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