Citron

Description

Citron (C. chinense) is grown for citrus, and it delivers it cleanly — lemon and lime rather than the tropical fruitiness most chinense varieties bring, with a faintly sour edge behind the heat. If you want a hot sauce that tastes of citrus without adding any, this is the starting point.

The pods ripen from green to a bright lemon yellow and the flesh is thin, which is a practical advantage: they dry fast and mill into an unusually aromatic yellow powder. The heat is high — sources place it well up the scale, though none of the figures in circulation come from a laboratory.

The plant has an oddity worth knowing, because it doubles as a way to check your seed is true: both the plant and the pods are noticeably hairy, which is uncommon in C. chinense. It stays compact and bushy at 50–80 cm, suits a container well, and produces very heavily — hundreds of pods in a good season.

One note on the name: “Citron” is used in the seed trade for more than one pepper, and it is sometimes confused with the baccatum lemon types such as Lemon Drop. This is the chinense one.

Powder, flakes, and citrus-forward hot sauce.

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Each pack contains approximately 8–10 or more seeds per variety.
Seeds are packaged in a certified EU seed packaging facility in accordance with applicable regulations.

Categories: Chili Seeds , C. chinense , Hot , Bonsai