Growing Chili Peppers

Capsicum is a plant genus of the Solanaceae family, cultivated for millennia by the peoples of tropical America.

The pepper or Chile term is widely used and it refers exclusively to the smaller, hot types of capsicum fruits. His spelling is common in Spanish although the name varies by location. For example, in South America, he is best known as Aji, locoto or rocoto, meanwhile the U.S., it is called bell pepper and in Canada and the United Kingdon only like pepper.

The spelling of this word is very important to distinguish between the fruit of capsicum chili "and the country is named after the Quechua chin Chile (" cold "), Chihli (Snow) or based chili ("Where the earth ends").

There is also some disagreement as to whether it is good to use the word "pepper" in the examination of peppers because "pepper" originally referred to the genus Piper, not pepper. Despite this dispute, a sense of referring to Capsicum pepper is supported by English dictionaries.

While the peppers are considered a vegetable, they turn into hot sauces or chili powder to be used in culinary dishes as a spice.

Since at least 7500 years BC, the peppers were domesticated by prehistoric people from southern Peru to northern Mexico in the Americas. Some of these countries have used capsicum fruits for medicinal purposes.

In most European countries and in the continental United States of America, that is produced jalapea±o, habanero peppers, but do not grow well because of the climate. Only in San Diego or Florida, they survive from one growing season to another.

Around 6,000 years ago, archaeological activities in the south west of Ecuador finds evidence of pepper crop products that prove they were one of the first crops grown for human food.

Not until the time of Christopher Columbus on peppers were known and cultivated throughout the world. He was one of the first Europeans to discover the fruits Capsicum. Because of their similar taste for the Old World peppers of the genus Piper, he decided to give the same name in order to associate them with the spice known in Asia.

In 1493, Diego Alvarez Chanca, a physician on the second voyage, Columbus was the first pepper peppers to Spain and to analyze its medical effects. Since that time, he began the trade between Mexico, as a Spanish colony in Asia. Peppers spread rapidly in the Philippines, India, China, Korea and Japan where they have been incorporated into local dishes.