Can potted five-color peppers be eaten? You'll understand after reading this
Growing flowers is certainly beautiful, but ornamental flowers generally do not bear fruit. However, some experienced flower enthusiasts have discovered a plant called the five-color pepper, whose fruits come in five colors: red, yellow, purple, white and green, and look very endearing as a potted ornamental.
The five-color pepper is a variety of chili pepper, with white flowers that are small and inconspicuous. Its flowering period runs from early May to the end of July. The fruits grow in clusters at the ends of the branches.
Five-color peppers can be used not only as potted decorations, but are also very nutritious when used as food.
Five-color peppers are rich in nutrients and have the highest vitamin A and vitamin C content among vegetables. Especially at maturity, apart from vitamin C, which does not increase, all other nutrients in the fruit increase fivefold.
Potted five-color peppers also have their weaknesses: they are not cold-tolerant. The suitable growing temperature is 20°C during the seedling stage, 15--20°C during the flowering stage, and above 25°C during the fruit ripening stage; below 10°C or above 35°C they will develop poorly. As for cultivation methods, exposed-root cultivation is generally used.
Five-color peppers also help purify the air. They can be displayed in the living room, bedroom or kitchen, creating a very good decorative effect, and the plant has a certain ability to absorb and resist toxic gases in the air such as sulfur dioxide and sulfur trioxide.
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