What's up everyone? Welcome back to the show. Today we're going to talk about the Chinese five-color pepper now this is my favorite pepper that I've ever grown in my entire life and that's not because it tastes good not that it tastes terribly bad. It's just that it's extremely, extremely hot and I do not have

super, super tongue when it comes to dealing with heat. And so for me it's an ornamental pepper.

For others they may eat it right up and they love it. It's just not for me.

But that doesn't mean I don't want to grow it because it looks

absolutely beautiful and the reason why is revealed right in the name itself

Chinese five color pepper so as you might imagine this is a pepper that goes through five different distinct

color phases when it comes to its ripening process. Now to me, it looks like either Christmas

lights because the peppers themselves have the shape

of a Christmas light and they are multicolored or it kind of reminds me of a plant that

maybe would show up in Willie Wunka's chocolate factory or a book like that,

just some fantastical, otherworldly looking plant that makes you sort of stop and think,

hmm, how does this thing even exist?

Now, what are the colors that the Chinese Piper Color Pepper Pepper

will go through?

Well, it's gonna start out purple,

then it moves to a cream or whitish color, then yellow, then orange, then red. Now it is beautiful

in the sense that they don't go through all the peppers do not go through this

color change at the exact same time. So the plant itself doesn't go purple,

cream, yellow, orange, red. The peppers are coming out at different times, they're

ripening at different rates, and so you do get this technical color style approach. Now, these are perfect for pots, for containers.

When I grew them, I grew them in a, I think a 10 gallon container,

although I think you can do them just perfectly fine

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