Cherry red peppers (Capsicum annuum “Cappa Sequence”) come in both warm and mild types. The tiny plants create tiny, scarlet, spherical peppers and grow about 2-feet high. They can be prized for use in arrangements or as an ornamental plant, even though the fruits are edible. Cherry peppers prosper as an annual in most of the Environment Zones of Sunset. Planting them near a south-facing wall encourages fruitfulness and helps reflect warmth.
Mulch on the bed using a 2 inch layer of bark or straw mulch. Use a black plastic mulch to decrease weeds and help keep the soil warm in the event that your home is in an area that is cooler.
Water cherry-red peppers once and and offer one to two inches of water. Before afternoon warmth causes quick evaporation water in the bottom of the plant in the morning can seep to the root zone.
Set a 3-foot tomato cage on the pepper crops to to aid the branches, particularly in places that encounter windy circumstances. Cherry reds have branches that split easily.
A high- phosphorus fertilizer when the peppers start flowering. Sprinkle 1 teaspoon of fertilizer six inches out in the stem. Use a phosphorus-rich vegetable or tomato feed in the bundle-directed price.
Support the fresh fruit in one hand when the peppers are ripe and clip through the stem using a pair of shears. Avoid yanking on the fresh fruit since this damages the brittle stems. When the fruits are firm and scarlet for best taste harvest the peppers.