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Poblano Pepper
A variety of chili pepper
How to sow poblano pepper: Direct seed indoors, transplant seedlings outside after hardening off
Sun requirement for poblano pepper: Plant in Full Sun
Poblanos are mild chili peppers native to Mexico. The plants produce medium to large peppers that are 7-15cm long and deep green. They are commonly harvested while still green, but can also be left on the plant until they fully ripen and turn red. Red poblanos are significantly spicier and more flavorful than green ones. Ancho chiles are dried red poblano peppers. Green poblanos are frequently grilled, stuffed, or roasted. Green poblanos usually have a mild flavor and a Scoville rating of 1,000–1,500 units, but they can sometimes be hotter. Poblanos are sometimes sold as Pasilla Peppers, although Pasilla is the dried Chilaca chili pepper.
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Poblano pepper facts
Lifespan
Height × spread
50cm × 40cmRow Spacing
45cmCrop cycle
Max altitude
Optimal light
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 poblano 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 poblano 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.
Growing poblano peppers
- Sow seeds indoors somewhere warm 10 weeks before planting out
- Pot on the seedlings 6 weeks before planting out
- Harden off the seedlings 1 week before planting out
- Set or refill beer traps for slugs and snails at planting out every week
- Stake the plants 2 weeks after planting out
- Water regularly at planting out every week
- Check for aphids 2 weeks after planting out every 2 weeks
- Feed with tomato fertiliser 6 weeks after planting out every 2 weeks
- Pick chillies regularly at first harvest every week
- Bring pots in before the first frost 3 months after first harvest
How members grow poblano peppers
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- neotoma Container Garden · Silver Spring, MD
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Ecological requirements
Data from the FAO EcoCrop database for Capsicum annuum L.
| Family / Taxonomy | Magnoliopsida Asteridae Solanales Solanaceae |
|---|---|
| Life form | herb |
| Life span | annual |
| Habit | erect |
| Optimal soil depth | medium (50-150 cm) |
| Optimal soil texture | medium, organic |
| Optimal soil fertility | moderate |
| Optimal soil drainage | well (dry spells) |
| Optimal soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) |
| Photoperiod | short day (<12 hours), neutral day (12-14 hours) |
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