SEED TYPE : Open Pollinated

PLANT TYPE : Annual

FRUIT COLOR : Purple

SOWING TIME: All Season

SOWING METHOD : Directly from Seed / Transplanting

GERMINATION TIME : 6 – 8 Days

GROWING CONTAINER : 12 inch height pot / Garden bed

GROWING MEDIA : 1 part  Garden soil 1 part Cocopeat 1 part Vermicompost

FLOWERING : 60 – 75 Days After Sowing

DESCRIPTION :

Puple chilli  is a wonderfully attractive plant, having dark green leaves and purple-fringed white flowers. The fruit are cone-shaped and upward growing, getting to about  1 cms long. The  chilli fruit change from a beautiful lilac purple to orange and then red as they mature. The plant itself is super compact and it thrives and produces well even in small pots. The chilli is more an ornamental variety but the taste is quite sweet with some floral flavour undertones.

It is compact plant that measures 30cm wide by 40cm tall and its small proportions help make it suitable as a lovely ornamental pot plant with the added bonus of heat giving chillies.

Purple chili has very attractive white flowers with purple edges. Its fruits ripen from vivid purple to bright red. Fresh chili peppers, red, purple or green, are a rich source of vitamin-C. Chilis are also great sources of antioxidants like vitamin A, and flavonoids like beta carotene, alpha carotene, and many more.