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Ember Oxheart Pepper
Capsicum annuum. Stabilized across eleven generations by seed librarian Ruth Vernal, 1994 to 2005.
- Days
- 75 days to color
- Habit
- 24 in
- Light
- Full sun
- Sowing
- Start indoors 8 weeks
Warm, not fierce; a pepper for people who say they can't eat peppers. Does beautifully in a five-gallon bucket by a south wall.
From the grower's notes
“Don't baby it. Give it ordinary ground, keep the row marked, and write down what you did. Next year's borrower will be reading your note, not ours.”
The packet carries a pinch of seed and a copy of these notes. Sowing depth, spacing and the season's quirks are penciled on the back by whoever last returned it.
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