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The Ancho San Luis Pepper is the luxury version of the Ancho pepper, it has a more uniform appearance and produces better quality peppers that will be delicious in all your Mexican dishes. Placed between 1,000 and 4,000 on the Scoville scale it is a fairly mild pepper. The plant can reach 90cm in height and its fruit is harvested when it is green or red depending on taste.

• strength: 1,000 to 4,000 on the Scoville scale.
• plant size approximately 90 cm.
• large fruit, approximately 14cm long.
• fruit color: Dark green during growth, Red at maturity.
• genus: Capsicum Annuum.
• ideal germination: between January and April.
• harvest: between September and November.

What Equipment for growing my peppers?

To optimize your results we recommend you equip yourself with:

Ancho San Luis Pepper Seeds.
An enclosed growing space like a mini greenhouse.
Coconut pellets, peat or cotton (to germinate the seeds).
Labels (to avoid mixing up your seedlings).
Potting soil (ideally a mixture of 50% black peat and 50% blonde peat) or special flowering soil which will also work.
Fertilizer for Peppers or Tomatoes, or 5 5 10 fertilizer for connoisseurs.
A water sprayer or watering can.
Gloves (if you don't like contact with soil).
Pots with a diameter of 7 or 8 cm at the beginning before using 10 liter pots or more depending on the pepper for repotting

To simplify your life we offer our mini greenhouse for growing your peppers.

How to Germinate my Pepper Seeds?

Planting Peppers is a process that requires patience and some knowledge, but don't panic, to germinate your pepper seeds we explain everything!

Pepper seedlings are made at the beginning of the year generally between January at the earliest and March for the beginning of spring, to do this you will need the equipment listed above.

You then have 2 options:
Plant your seed directly in a pot full of potting soil at half a cm deep
Place a seed on a coconut pellet or on a piece of cotton.

in both cases, once the seed is in place you will need to spray enough water to moisten the soil or cotton without wetting it, then place your coconut pellet or cotton in a container like a mini greenhouse which will then keep the heat and humidity thus providing oxygen, if you use a flower pot you can simply stretch film over it and make small holes with a toothpick to oxygenate the plant.

The ideal is to maintain a constant temperature of 28 degrees, you can store your container behind a sunny window, on or near a radiator or on a heating mat or heating pad designed for this purpose.

OUR TIP:

Place your mini greenhouse on your internet box!

remember to air out your growing area from time to time to avoid the appearance of fungi while keeping the soil moist, once the first leaves appear you will need to be careful to give your shoots enough sun for 12 to 14 hours per day, once the second set of leaves is well developed you can then repot them.

once potted keep your plant near a heat source and exposed to the sun (ideally try to filter the light to avoid heat stress)

after the Ice Saints around mid-May you can move your plant outside and plant your pepper in the ground if you wish or leave it in a pot and display it on a balcony, a window sill or even along a wall, on the south side preferably.

How to water my Ancho San Luis Pepper?

For watering your Ancho San Luis pepper be careful of over-watering, too much water can drown the plant and lead to its demise, you will simply need to let the soil dry between each watering to avoid insect proliferation and drowning of the plant.

Once the plant is well developed (once your plant reaches about thirty centimeters) you can cause water stress by stopping watering the plant for several days before resuming watering (be careful however not to abuse this technique, it would be a shame to let your pepper plant die).

How to properly prepare my harvest?

Once your pepper plant is in place, here are our tips to optimize your future harvest:

When your pepper plant reaches a height of 15 to 20 cm you can pinch the top of the stem (without breaking it) which should allow the plant to grow bushier and produce a little more.

If flowering is early for one of your plants, remove the first flowers to prevent them from demanding too much energy from the plant.

If your pepper plant is outdoors, insects will take care of pollinating the plant which will then produce peppers, if your plant is indoors, you will have to do this manually, take your clean finger and rub it lightly against each of the flowers from one to another.

Don't hesitate to use a bamboo stake or rod to support your plant.

When to harvest my Ancho San Luis Pepper?

For harvesting your Ancho San Luis pepper, as with others you will need to look at its color! This pepper is harvested once Red but you can eat it green, it will then have a more herbaceous taste, bite into the pepper and make up your own mind!