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To decorate your windowsill, make your home cozy, and your dishes a spicy touch, you should plant decorative peppers. Its predecessor is the Mexican pepper Capsicum annuum. If you provide the plant with optimal conditions, it will bear fruit throughout the year. There are many varieties of ornamental peppers, edible or not, and you can read more about them below.
Classic red edible peppers
Hot decorative peppers come in a variety of colors, shapes and sizes. When choosing seeds in the store, you should pay attention to whether the fruits are edible.
Some of the varieties that are suitable for human consumption are listed below.
Small miracle
One of the early maturing varieties. The plant bears beautiful and edible fruits with a slightly elongated shape. Due to the pungency of these peppers, they are used as a seasoning or for preservation along with other vegetables.
The bush reaches a height of 50-80 cm. It has the shape of a dome. Fruits change their color as they ripen: first, from green, the skin acquires a purple hue, then it turns yellow, becomes orange and, finally, red.
Jellyfish
This variety bears thin, elongated fruits. They grow white, yellow or orange at first, and turn red as they mature. This decorative pepper grows up to 5 cm in length. It has a pleasant taste and slight pungency. The fruits will become a spicy seasoning for homemade dishes.
The plant forms a small bush - only 20-25 cm high, 15 cm wide.Together with thin peppers, it really resembles a jellyfish with short tentacles.
Twinkle
This is a variety of ornamental peppers for growing at home, the first fruits ripen 115-120 days after seed germination. Brings bright red elongated peppers weighing about 45 grams. The fruits are relatively large for a houseplant, the skin is smooth. Peppers have a classic pungent taste. The plant produces a not very large, branched bush.
Aladdin
Refers to ultra-early ripening varieties. At home, the bush grows up to 35-40 cm high, when planted in open ground, it is slightly larger - up to 50 cm. The variety is distinguished by abundant fruiting, and over a long period. The fruits initially grow green, as they ripen, the skin turns yellowish or purple, and when ripe, red.
The peppers have an oblong cone shape, pleasant aroma and pronounced pungency. When grown at home, the fruits are not so bitter, but in general, this does not affect fruiting in any way.
Phoenix
Medium early variety, the harvest ripens within 95-108 days. It bears fruits of a conical shape, their length is 3-4 cm. As they ripen, their color changes from green to yellowish, then to red. This decorative pepper is suitable for human consumption.
The plant is highly decorative. Forms a bush up to 35 cm high, spherical in shape. It is often grown at home and used for design. The bush bears fruit for a long time. Peppers can be used as a seasoning, canning or drying.
Salute
This perennial forms a bush 20 cm high, round in shape. Peppers grow in the form of a cone with a sharp tip, the skin is smooth or slightly ribbed.The fruits have a pungent taste, are used for direct consumption, as a spice or for canning. As the pepper ripens, the spicy color turns from dark green to orange. They have a strong aroma.
This variety is often planted for design purposes. The bush grows in the correct shape, it does not need to be pruned. The weight of the fetus is on average 6 g, the walls are 1 mm thick.
Explosive amber
The plant forms a bush up to 30 cm high. Peppers are distinguished by a pronounced pungency, as they mature, their color changes from purple to cream, pink and scarlet. The length of the fruits is up to 2.5 cm, they ripen 115-120 days after the pepper seeds sprout. A distinctive feature of this plant is the leaves of a dark purple color.
Bell
A variety of berry pepper, fruits resemble in shape bell or miniature squash. The walls of pepper have a sweetish taste, the white core with seeds is pungent. The weight of one fruit reaches 60-100 g. 150 days pass from germination to the first harvest. The plant needs pinching. The branches and leaves are pubescent.
Nosegei
We can say that this is the most compact decorative pepper. The height of the bush is only 15 cm, and a 1 liter container is enough for growing it at home. The peppers are medium hot in taste, round in shape. Their color also changes as they ripen, changing from green to yellowish, then orange, and finally turns red.
Filius Blue
This variety bears a violet-blue hue that turns red as it ripens. The bush is compact, only 20 cm tall. Fruiting all year round, the harvest is plentiful. For him, factors such as good lighting, frequent watering and fertile soil are important. This bitter pod is perfect for spicing up homemade dishes.
Poinsettia
This variety forms a medium-sized bush with a height of 30-35 cm. Its fruits are oblong and grow up to 7.5 cm long. The highlight of this plant is that the peppers are located on the bush in bunches and resemble the petals of an unusual flower in the photo. As they mature, they acquire a classic red color.
The very name of this variety is taken from a plant common in Western countries. This is the most beautiful Euphorbia, which is also called Poinsettia.
Bride
Refers to mid-season varieties with abundant and long-term fruiting. Forms a compact bush up to 30 cm high. The fruits initially have a soft creamy hue, upon reaching biological ripeness they acquire a bright red color. The pepper is spicy and aromatic, an excellent seasoning for homemade dishes. Used for canning and making powder. It grows all year round at home, in the summer you can take the plant out to the balcony.
Multicolored decorative peppers
Although hot pepper associated mainly with the bright red color in the photo, there are many decorative varieties with fruits of other colors. If you want to plant a plant with edible peppers of original shades at home, you should pay attention to the varieties listed below.
Jamaica
This variety can grow on the windowsill in an ordinary flower pot. It has an original diamond-shaped yellow fruit. One of the edible hot peppers, while the pungency falls mainly on the white core, and the walls can be simply sweetish.
The Queen of Spades
An evergreen plant with a compact bush. Shades well. The height of the bush is about 25 cm, round shape. Bears fruit purple... Peppers are tasty, spicy and aromatic, ideal as a seasoning, also used for canning.
Inedible decorative varieties
In fact, not every decorative pepper can be eaten. There are a number of varieties whose fruits are inedible, but they are pleasing to the eye and create a cozy atmosphere in the room.
Clown
The plant forms a small bush up to 35 cm high.It bears fruits of a round or slightly elongated shape, their color can be yellow, orange or red. Peppers remain on the bush for 2-3 months. The most abundant fruiting is observed in the bright sun.
Goldfinger
A variety with inedible, but very beautiful fruits. They grow in the form of yellow pods about 5 cm long. The bush itself is small, 25 cm high. The plant is light-loving, bears fruit abundantly on the windowsill on the sunny side. You can sow the seeds of this ornamental pepper in any fertile soil.
Conclusion
To grow one of the above varieties at home, you need to follow a few simple rules. You will need to maintain a temperature regime of about 25 degrees, place the plant on a sunny windowsill and regularly ventilate the room to ensure the flow of fresh air.
