A recent scientific study of the genetics of chilli peppers has discovered that scores of new chilli hybrids can be bred by crossing domesticated peppers with their wild cousins. The findings were published in the journal PLOS ONE and concluded that breeding compatibility between species was not necessarily connected to how closely related they were …
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This week we had two different customers contact us concerned that their chilli plants were wilting. They sent us pictures and it turned out they had put their plants outside. Chillies are tender perennials Important: Don’t put your chilli plants outside ‘yet’. Capsicums are tender perennials and chillies are certainly “tender”. The absolute minimum growing …
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