'Hungarian Hot Wax' is a bushy annual to around 60cm tall with lance-shaped leaves and white flowers that are followed by conical fruits to 10cm long that ripen from yellow through orange to red producing medium to hot chilli peppers
0.5-1 metres
0.1-0.5 metres
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Best grown inside on a sunny windowsill or in a greenhouse, but can be grown outside once all danger of frost has passed; select a sunny, sheltered position and grow in containers, peat-free growing bags or in open ground. Water regularly and feed with a high potassium liquid fertiliser once the first fruit has set. See how to grow: chilli peppers for further advice
Propagate by seed. See sowing vegetable seeds or sowing seeds indoors for further advice
Pinch out growing tips of plants when they are about 20cm tall to encourage bushiness
May be susceptible to aphids, whitefly and glasshouse red spider mite
May be susceptible to virus diseases, fungal wilt, anthracnose and powdery mildews