Facing Heaven Pepper Seeds
A very old chinese variety with a distinct flavour.
Facing heaven pepper seeds. The best tasting pepper for dried red pepper flakes. The fruits are very aromatic with a great citrus flavour and ripen to a bright claret red pods have a good pungency with an intense start to the burn mellowing after a while. Facing heaven peppers a staple of the sichuan kitchen facing heaven peppers grow straight up on the bush hence their name but are most often used in dried form. They are slim and 1 5 inch to 2 5 inches in length.
Facing heaven chilies are deep red and medium hot and are used for many sichuan dishes since they can be used in abundance. A pretty bush that has all the chilli s facing upwards facing heaven. The facing heaven pepper is a capsicum annuum variety widely grown in the sichuan province of southwestern china. 1 2 pound facing heaven or any fresh hot chiles 1 cup white vinegar with 5 acidity 4 garlic cloves 2 teaspoons.
Cháotiānjiāo also known as 指天椒. 4 quarter pint jars. These were harvested in fall 2019 and are vibrant fragrant and soft. Zhǐtiānjiāo meaning skyward pointing chili pepper or heaven chile is a cone shaped medium hot chili pepper between 3 and 6 cm in length 1 to 2 cm in diameter at the base and with very thin skin.
Pepper seeds facing heaven heirloom my favorite hot pepper for drying and flaking these are the seeds from the peppers i show in my video. This is a pungent variety grown in szechuan province of china. Plant in full sun facing heaven pepper has been planted 1 time by growstuff members. How to sow facing heaven pepper.
They mature in about 60 70 days. Facing heaven hot sauce wonder why it s called facing heaven. Facing heaven pepper seeds chao tian jiao c annuum sichuan province china. Direct seed indoors transplant seedlings outside after hardening off sun requirement for facing heaven pepper.
Facing heaven pepper seeds chao tian jiao from sichuan province china organic. This is a great thin walled drying pepper that has plenty of heat and a nice broad flavour. Conoides chao tian jiao. There are many types of facing heaven chilies but these are the most popular in chengdu nowadays.
The facing heaven pepper capsicum annuum var. Zhǐtiānjiāo meaning skyward pointing chili pepper is a cone shaped medium hot chili pepper between 3 and 6 cm in length 1 to 2 cm in diameter at the base and with very thin skin. It s also because after the first taste you pray you ll recover. Standard packet contains approx 25 seeds.
Scott tells me it s because the peppers grow pointy end up.