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Facing Heaven Pepper

How to sow facing heaven pepper: Direct seed indoors, transplant seedlings outside after hardening off

Sun requirement for facing heaven pepper: Plant in Full Sun

The Facing Heaven Pepper is a Capsicum annuum variety widely grown in the Sichuan Province of southwestern China. The plant produces small, cone-shaped, medium-hot chili peppers that are 3-6cm long and 1-2cm in diameter. The peppers have very thin skin and grow with the fruit pointing upwards instead of hanging down. Facing Heaven peppers are fragrant and moderately spicy, with a Scoville heating rating of 10,000 to 50,000 units and a citrus-y flavor. The peppers ripen to a bright red and are lightly cooked in oil or dried and added to dishes whole.

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Facing heaven pepper facts

Lifespan

Annual living and reproducing in a single year or less

Height

100cm

Row Spacing

40cm

What are growing degree days?

A plant grows with warmth, not with days. A growing degree day is one day's worth of useful warmth: how many degrees the day's average temperature is above the lowest temperature the crop grows at. Add them up from planting and you know how far along the crop is, whatever the calendar says.

Say that lowest temperature is 10°C. A day averaging 17°C gives 7 growing degree days. A day averaging 8°C gives none, as it is too cold for the crop to grow. That is why the same lettuce takes about 50 days in a summer and 90 in an autumn: it needs the same total warmth either way.

For facing heaven pepper, the FAO EcoCrop database gives a lowest growing temperature of 8°C and a shortest growing cycle of 60 days at its best temperature, about 930 growing degree days to a first harvest.

Where you've told us where your garden is, we use this and the weather there to predict when your facing heaven pepper will be ready to harvest. We don't use it for how long a plant lives or when it finishes: we go by what members have logged for that.