The highlights
- 5-7cm long chillies that ripen from yellow to orange and red
- 250,000 scovilles of intense flavour
- Grow in pots or window boxes
- Ripens two weeks before other chillies
Description
- Renowned for its heat, Paper Lantern is for hardcore chilli fans, with fiery 5-7cm chillies that turn from green through orange to bright red
- Perfect for hot sauce, salsa and tex mex food with a kick – these ripen up to two weeks before other chillies
- Grow in a greenhouse, on a sunny patio or in pots on the windowsill
- 250,000 Scoville rating – the Scoville scale measures the spiciness or pungency of chillies. The scale measures the amount of capsaicin (the chemical compound that causes spicy heat) in a pepper and assigns it a number rating in Scoville Heat Units
- Plant out after the first frosts and harvest at any colour from July to October
- Premium garden ready plants grown by vegetable experts on a family run farm in Lancashire and sent to you at the best possible time for planting
- Growing your own gives you healthy, fresh produce with a lower carbon plantprint than anything you can buy from a shop
- Easy to grow and care for – you should see your first chillies within 12-14 weeks
