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Lorene Salt
Posted at:
January 26, 2025
I am not very plant savvy. My friends are bound and determined that I will grow plants (my thumbs are black!!!). My friends have given me a Medusa Ornamental Pepper. It is a very small pepper plant with multicoloured (red, yellow and orange) skinny 2-1/2" peppers on it. Will the peppers grow bigger? Can I eat or cook with them? Or should I just enjoy and admire it for as long as I can keep it alive?Any ornamental peppers I was able to find in catalogues are dwarf varieties of hot chili peppers and are grown like them. The fruits will probably not get larger since they were selected to have lots of cute, small but colourful fruits. Their taste was not considered in the breeding programme, but they would probably be hot. However, eating the fruits would destroy the decorative value of the plants and would thus destroy their purpose.