Capsicum annuum
Growing calendar
Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.
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Sow / plantGrowingHarvest
Guides
- Types of Hot Chili Pepper: Telling the Groups Apart in the Garden
- Starting Hot Chili Peppers From Seed: The Long Head Start They Need
- Hot Chili Pepper Care: Watering and Feeding for Maximum Heat
- How to Prune and Train Hot Chili Peppers: Shaping the Plant and Cutting Back for Winter
- How Pepper and Chili Branches Multiply: Forking at Every Flower, the Three-Stem Frame, and What to Prune
- Hot Chili Pepper Growing Calendar: A Season That Runs Half the Year
- Hot Chili Pepper Problems: Pests, Rots and Pods That Never Color
Common problems
Start from what you can see on the plant.
Varieties (577)
577 peppers and chilies varieties have their own page, with days to maturity, growth habit, traits and uses. Listed by country: United States 575, United Kingdom 2.
'Buena Mulata' PepperBiancaCayenne LongDeclarationGarden SunshineHidalgoKeystone GiantMexican Sunset F1Peach HabaneroRed KnightStaddon's SelectThai Nippon Taka
See all 577 peppers and chilies varieties
Pests and diseases (49)
Bacterial WiltFusarium WiltPowdery MildewLate BlightTomato Spotted WiltBacterial CankerCucumber Mosaic VirusSclerotinia RotSouthern BlightPotato Virus YTobacco Mosaic VirusAnthracnosePepper Mild Mottle VirusTomato Mosaic VirusDamping-offBacterial Soft RotRoot RotRoot-knot NematodeGray MoldVerticillium WiltBacterial SpotLeaf SpotRing RotNecrotic MosaicNecrotic MottleZonate Necrotic SpotNecrotic Ring SpotNecrotic RingspotFalse Black MoldCalyx End RotMosaic DiseaseFruit RotFruit RotPlant-parasitic NematodesGray Leaf SpotWhite Leaf SpotSeptoria Leaf SpotFusarium Wilt and Damping-offBacterial DiseaseRugose Leaf MosaicBacterial Leaf BlightVein YellowingAscochyta BlightChlorotic NecrosisChlorotic MottleChlorosis DiseaseBlack MoldBlack BlightBlack Dot Root Rot