the Anaheim chili pepper also known as the New Mexico chili pepper or the
California chili pepper is a mildly hot pepper variety that is easy to grow in
your garden let's look at growing the Anaheim chili pepper now this pepper
variety can be easily grown in containers we are using a whisky barrel
container here but you can use a small container even as small as five gallons
to grow a single plant we're adding some organic fertilizer
this is a vegetable fertilizer that will provide adequate nutrients for this
plant to grow and this is the plant we're planting this is the Anaheim chili
pepper also known as the New Mexico chili pepper or the California chili
pepper it has different pronunciations and even
spelled differently but it's all the same it's all chili peppers now we'll
take our plant and then plant it like the way you see here and we're just
going to compact the soil around the plant a little bit
now as soon as you plant the Anaheim chili pepper plant you need to water it
very well and when you water it around the base you can see that this is a very
well draining potting mix now you can either use a bagged potting mix or you
can create your own potting mix but you need to make sure that the mix is well
draining and you need to water as soon as you add the fertilizer to the soil
you do want to make sure that your plant is well watered anytime you add
fertilizer now this fertilizer should be good for at least a few months now we
planted our Chile plant very late it was almost July when we started our Chile
plants we had a heat wave going on in July which is why I'm adding this mulch
at the base of the plant this mulch will help retain water and will help the
plant survive through days of very hot weather now mulching is totally optional
but it helps conserve water and also prevents weeds around the plant you need
to make sure that you mulch at least to about two inches as you can see here
this is about two inches of mulch that we are adding here
and 20 days since planting you can see that the plant is growing pretty well
now you can start your pepper plants from seeds as well and you need to plan
that in advance make sure that you sow your seeds and then transplant the plant
and here you can see the Chili Peppers have started forming already on the
plant this chili pepper plant is a quick producer it produces a lot of chilies
very quickly now this chili variety the Anaheim chili pepper is a mild pepper
variety it has a Scoville heat rating of 500 so they're much milder than other
pepper varieties like cayenne pepper or jalapenos they are a mild pepper variety
and a lot of people actually prefer the heat of this pepper variety because it's
mild it's not very hot
and the best thing about this pepper plant is that it produces large chilies
large Chili Peppers as you can see here the size of this chili pepper is quite
big and this is one thing I like about this pepper variety is that the size of
the pepper is pretty big and you can see here we harvesting our first chili
pepper it's a beautiful looking chili pepper and I use this chili pepper just
like I would use a bell pepper for example since it's so mild it is almost
like using a bell pepper so you can stir fry these peppers you can make salsas
out of it it can be pretty much used in anything that you would use regular
peppers or even hot red chilies if you want a milder version of the same dish
just use this chili pepper variety and this pepper variety does turn red
when it becomes mature however I like to harvest my peppers when they are green
and this pepper will keep producing and you can harvest a lot of peppers from
this pepper variety and here is an interesting fact about the Anaheim chili
pepper it's a cultivar of the New Mexico pepper
variety and it gets its name from Emilio Ortega a farmer who brought these seeds
from New Mexico to the city of Anaheim and California and as you can see here
this is a mildly hot pepper variety on the Scoville scale it's about 500 so
there we have it folks that was our episode on the plant profile for the
Anaheim chili pepper or the New Mexico chili pepper or the California chili if
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