Cayenne Pepper Seeds (30)

Cayenne Pepper Seeds (Capsicum annuum) 30 seeds

Cayenne pepper is a plant that belongs to the Solanaceae family.
This hot pepper is grown for its fruits with a particularly spicy flavor.
On the Scoville scale, it is ranked 8th out of 10, or around 50,000 Scoville units, which makes it a very hot pepper, just like the habanero pepper.

It is a small shrub that can grow up to 1 meter in height with elongated leaves.
Its flowers are white in summer.
The fruits, the peppers, are large and long, they can measure up to 25 cm in length. It is very early and productive.
Its seeds are yellow and resemble those of the love apple or the tomato tree.

The Aztecs were the first users of this pepper, preparing it with cocoa to make a drink that was supposed to give a lot of courage.
Christopher Columbus brought it back from the New World and its use spread throughout the world.
In cooking, this pepper is known for its spicy and burning taste.

In medicine it was used for the same properties as mallow, lemon balm or thyme).
Take a pinch of powder, honey and 25 ml of lemon diluted in hot water.

Sowing Cayenne Pepper Seeds:
Sow the seeds in pots in batches of 2 or 3 under 3 millimeters of potting soil.
Use a rich and aerated substrate.
Then spray with water and place the crop in a warm place, for example in a greenhouse.
Finally, once the seedlings are 5 cm tall, they should be transplanted directly into the garden in a sunny location.

Extremely hot pepper.
Very abundant harvest.
Easy to grow in full sun.
Culinary and medicinal plant.


Reproducible seeds harvested exclusively in the Pot'à'Jo garden, a 1500m² horticultural and permaculture market garden. Everything is grown with a deep respect for nature and its inhabitants. I have been growing my own seeds for years, from seed to seed.