Chilli Pepper 'Spangles Twilight'

Easy to grow and with a fantastically long cropping season, Chilli Pepper ‘Spangles’ provides summer-long harvest of sweet, mild chillies for multiple culinary dishes. Can be grown indoors under suitable lighting all year round . Not only productive but also highly ornamental, this variety provides a four-colour display with masses of neat cone-shaped chillies which emerge purple before gradually changing to white, then orange and finally ripening to bright red. Wonderfully versatile, use these beautiful, mild chillies to add colour and flavour to salads, side dishes, curries or use them to make a delicious sweet chilli sauce.

Height: 75cm (30”). Spread: 45cm (18”)..

Sow Chilli Pepper seeds on the surface of an equal parts vermiculite/perlite mix in a propagator or similar container, then cover with a fine sprinkling of the vermiculite/perlite mix . Fill the bottom of the propagator with water to allow the grow medium to remain damp.. Propagator at a temperature of 18-20C (64-68F) for up to 14 days. Do not exclude light as this helps germination.

When seedlings are large enough to handle, transplant into the desired hydroponics grow system e.g. kratky method, leaving 45cm (18”) between plants. Chilli peppers may be grown undercover in a greenhouse or polytunnel, grown outdoors in a sheltered position in full sun or under hydroponics grow lights. When growing chilli peppers outdoors, gradually acclimatise them to outdoor conditions .