Price range: £2.25 through £30.00
Padron is a well known Spanish heirloom. Compact cone shaped fruits which are usually harvested young, small and green for use in tapas. They’re quite mild at this stage, although they do get hotter as they get more mature and will eventually ripen to red. It is the increasing maturity rather than the size which makes the peppers hotter. So beware a small pepper that has been on the plant for a long time. It may be small but also a bit fiery.
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Pepper Padron
Capsicum annuum
Approximately 150 – 250 seeds per g
Chilli peppers come in an array of shapes, sizes, colours and of course hotness. The hotness of different chillies has been measured using the Scoville scale.
Anaheim types are very mild measurung 500-2500 on the scale. Jalapenos are between 2500 and 8000. Hungarian hot wax varies between 5000 and 10,000.
Cayenne types are getting hotter between 30,000 and 50,000. Purira types are hotter still ranging from 30,000 to 100,000
while Habaneros start at 100,000 going up to 350,000.
Take care preparing chillies, the hotness gets on your surfaces, implements and on your hands.
Once you have tried your Chilli crop you will be able to gauge how many chillies you put in your recipes and whether you use the seeds or not, (the seeds make the dish hotter).
Padron is a well known Spanish heirloom. Compact cone shaped fruits which are usually harvested young, small and green for use in tapas. They’re quite mild at this stage, although they do get hotter as they get more mature and will eventually ripen to red. It is the increasing maturity rather than the size which makes the peppers hotter. So beware a small pepper that has been on the plant for a long time. It may be small but also a bit fiery.
How to grow:
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. Plant out into growbags or green house or polytunnel border when the plants are about 10 cm tall. If you are going to keep them in pots
keep potting up as required until you get to your final pot size. Liquid feed once the fruits have set. Harvest green when the fruits are ready or let the ripen to
red or in some cases orange.
Pests and Diseases:
Green house crops can be effected by aphids and red spider mite. We offer biological controls to use against these pests.
How to cook:
Chillies really give dishes a kick and a lift. They are obviously fundamental to chilli and also in curry pastes and patatas bravas.
Dishes can be cooled with yoghurt or sour cream.