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Ornamental Pepper NuMex Easter 2014 AAS Bedding Plant Award Winner NuMex Easter is a compact, well branched, uniform in size plant that displays small clusters of 4-6 fruits on top of the plant in a range from lavender to light yellow and when fully mature a light orange.
Ornamental Pepper NuMex Easter 2014 AAS Bedding Plant Award Winner NuMex Easter is a compact, well branched, uniform in size plant that displays small clusters of 4-6 fruits on top of the plant in a range from lavender to light yellow and when fully mature a light orange.
Ornamental Pepper NuMex Easter 2014 AAS Bedding Plant Award Winner NuMex Easter is a compact, well branched, uniform in size plant that displays small clusters of 4-6 fruits on top of the plant in a range from lavender to light yellow and when fully mature a light orange.
Ornamental Pepper NuMex Easter 2014 AAS Bedding Plant Award Winner NuMex Easter is a compact, well branched, uniform in size plant that displays small clusters of 4-6 fruits on top of the plant in a range from lavender to light yellow and when fully mature a light orange.
Ornamental Pepper NuMex Easter 2014 AAS Bedding Plant Award Winner NuMex Easter is a compact, well branched, uniform in size plant that displays small clusters of 4-6 fruits on top of the plant in a range from lavender to light yellow and when fully mature a light orange.Ornamental Pepper NuMex Easter 2014 AAS Bedding Plant Award Winner NuMex Easter is a compact, well branched, uniform in size plant that displays small clusters of 4-6 fruits on top of the plant in a range from lavender to light yellow and when fully mature a light orange.Ornamental Pepper NuMex Easter 2014 AAS Bedding Plant Award Winner NuMex Easter is a compact, well branched, uniform in size plant that displays small clusters of 4-6 fruits on top of the plant in a range from lavender to light yellow and when fully mature a light orange.Ornamental Pepper NuMex Easter 2014 AAS Bedding Plant Award Winner NuMex Easter is a compact, well branched, uniform in size plant that displays small clusters of 4-6 fruits on top of the plant in a range from lavender to light yellow and when fully mature a light orange.

Ornamental Pepper NuMex Easter

2014 AAS Bedding Plant Winner

NuMex Easter is a compact, well-branched uniform in size plant that displays small clusters of 4-6 fruits on top of the plant in a range from lavender to light yellow and when fully mature a light orange. The colors of the fruit resemble the pastel colors of Easter eggs.

Besides Easter, the plants are popular year-round. Excellent in pots, on patios, or for outdoor use.

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Categories: 2014, Container Suitable, Flowers from seed, National, Ornamental Pepper
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Description

AAS WINNER DETAILS

Winner Type: National
Class: Ornamental Pepper
Variety Name: NuMex Easter
Genus: Capsicum
Species: annuum
Year: 2014
Common Name: Ornamental Chile Pepper
Type: Flowers from Seed
Breeder: Chile Pepper Institute at New Mexico State University
Close Market Comparison: NuMex Twilight, Prairie Fire

PLANT NEEDS

Duration Type: Annual
Light Needs: Full sun
Water Needs: Dry to normal
Dead Heading Recommended: No
Staking Required: No

PLANT CHARACTERISTICS

Foliage Color: Green
Plant Habit: Compact
Plant Height: 5-6 inches
Bloom Time: Summer to frost
Bloom Color: White
Bloom Color Pattern: Solid
Bloom Size: 1/4 inch

IN THE GARDEN

Container: Yes
Weather Tolerance: Drought, heat, rain, wind
Garden Spacing: 10 inches
Low Edging: Yes
Houseplant: Yes
Edible Ornamental: Yes

HOW TO GROW

This ornamental chile pepper variety can be grown indoors where they will require at least 12 hours of good quality sunlight. Plants will need to be watered when the top ½ inch of soil becomes dry, soak pots then allow them to drain completely, never allow the plants to sit in water. Fertilize every 3 months with a balanced fertilizer. Remove chile pepper pods when they begin to dry.

If growing this ornamental chile pepper variety in outdoor beds or pots they will require at least 12 hours of good quality direct sunlight. Plants will need to be watered when the top ½ inch of soil becomes dry. Fertilize every month with a balanced fertilizer during the growing season. Ornamental chile pepper varieties are frost tender and will be killed off after the first hard freeze of the season.

Reviews

  1. AAS Display Garden- River Valley Master Gardeners – 08/09/2018

    Strikingly beautiful multicolored peppers looked like Christmas Tree bulbs.
    Heat and drought tolerant in Zone 6a garden.

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