PEPPER SWEET - CORNO DI TORO ROSSO

 Organic Pepper Sweet Corno Di Toro Rosso

        10 Seeds Pack   

Also known as Bull’s Horn peppers and Cowhorn peppers, Corno di Toro chile peppers are considered an Italian roasting pepper that has a mild heat, ranging 0-500 SHU on the Scoville scale. The name Corno di Toro translates from Italian to mean “horn of the bull,” and is derived from the pepper’s similarity in shape to a bull’s horn.  

 Heirloom Corno di Toro Rosso chile peppers are elongated, curved pods averaging 20 to 25 centimetres in length and 5 to 7 centimetres in diameter, and have a conical shape tapering to a rounded point. The skin is glossy, smooth, and thin, ripening from green to dark red. Underneath the surface, the flesh is thick, crisp, and lightly striated, encasing a central cavity filled with pale red to ivory ribs and round and flat, cream-colored seeds. Corno di Toro rosso peppers offer a sweet, fruity flavour with a mild heat that gradually increases as the pepper matures. 

PLANTING & GROWING

Soaking needs to be done at least a few hours before planting, and preferably overnight. To prevent damping off when starting seeds indoors, it’s essential that you disinfect all of your pots, plastic grow trays, seed cells, and seedling tray covers before you reuse them. 

Can grow in plant containers in your balcony garden or inside near a sunny window. If you don’t have a suitable garden spot, try a container instead.  A pot that’s at least 8 inches wide and it has drainage holes. Due to sensitive roots, repotting is best avoided. Instead, make sure you choose a suitable growing container for your seeds right from the start.

Pepper prefer Well-drained, light, moderately fertile soil, high in organic matter. 

Seeds can be stated, in trays or modules, from January to March at a temperature of 18 – 21 degrees C. When some true leaves have formed pot up into 8cm pots in good quality organic compost.  If growing in the ground or a raised bed, peppers should be planted around 40-60cm apart in a row, or 1 per square foot in a denser polyculture planting scheme – though these spacing suggestions are just guidelines and spacing can differ depending on your specific approach.  Once the plants have established, it is better to water heavy and infrequently, allow the top inch or so to dry out in between watering. 

Pepper plants are self fertile and will generally pollinate themselves. However, if you want to give them a helping hand to ensure that lots of fruit are set indoors, use a cotton wool bud to gently sweep the inside of the flowers, spreading the pollen as you go. The flower's petals will drop off as the green middle part of the flower starts to swell slightly. This is the chilli pepper beginning to grow. 

Good companion plants for peppers are dill, parsley, basil, rosemary, marjoram, petunias, marigolds, nasturtiums, lettuce, beans, peas, cucumbers, chard, chives, spinach, shallots, spring onions, garlic, onions and leeks.

You should avoid planting peppers with mustard greens, kohlrabi, cabbage, fennel and apricots.

Do not plant in same spot more than once every 4 years.