Chilli Pepper Turkish Pickling Seeds

Chilli Peppers 'Turkish Pickling' are small conical shaped peppers with a medium to hot heat level. They originate from Turkey where a side dish of pickles accompanies most main meals and these pods are perfect pickling peppers with a good flavour.

Chilli Pepper Turkish Pickling is a Capsicum annuum which is a species of the plant genus Capsicum native to southern North America, the Caribbean, and northern South America. This species is the most common and extensively cultivated of the five domesticated capsicums. The species encompasses a wide variety of shapes and sizes of peppers, both mild and hot, such as bell peppers, jalapeños, and cayenne peppers. Capsicum annuum is an evergreen Perennial growing to 1m by 1m at a medium rate. It is hardy to UK zone 9 and is frost tender. It is in leaf all year, in flower from July to September, and the seeds ripen from August to October. The species is hermaphrodite (which has both male and female organs).

Chilli Pepper Turkish Pickling pods are usually picked when light yellow/green and unripe rather than left to mature to a bright red although they can be eaten when red and fully ripe too. The plants are compact and produce a high yield of peppers fairly early in the season.

Chilli Pepper Turkish Pickling are pickled with a short stem left on and eaten by holding the stem and pulling the pickled pepper through the front teeth ooh er hot!

Read our guide on how to pickle chillies [HERE]  

 

Turkish Pickling Chilli Seed Information

Seeds Per Pack:	10
Sow Hot Scale:
Scoville Rating:	6,000 SHU (View the Scoville Scale)
When to Sow:	January - April
Time to Fruit:	70 - 90 days
Harvest:	August - October

When to Sow your Turkish Pickling Chilli Seeds

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