Variety profile
Chili ‚Lemon Drop’
Capsicum chinense · Solanaceae
- Ripening
- spät
- Harvest
- Week 37 to 43
- Vigour
- stark
- Growth habit
- hoch, locker
- Origin
- Peru
- Open-pollinated
- Yes
- Heritage variety
- Yes
- Use
- Frisch, Sauce, Trocknen, Einlegen
About this variety
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This Peruvian Capsicum baccatum variety brings an unusually clear lemon aroma into the garden. It grows tall and needs a long season, so start it early indoors and give it a sheltered, warm spot. In late summer it hangs full of bright yellow, cone shaped pods.
Fresh, it smells and tastes astonishingly of lemon, with a strong, lingering heat behind it. Excellent in salsas, ceviche or a pale sauce for fish.
Care and diseases
Soil, feeding, pruning, companion planting and diseases apply to every variety of this species alike. You will find the full guidance on the species page.
All care notes for Chili