Hard-to-Find Seeds for Peppers
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Ornamental Peppers

PEP214 Numex Twilight (Ornamental)

Sunset colored fruits start out purple and ripen to yellow, orange and then red. Excellent pot plants only growing a foot tall and loaded with fruits. Excellent hot sauce peppers.
Package of 15 seeds, $2.25

PEP227 Bellingrath Gardens Purple (Ornamental)

Named in honor of Mobile, Alabama's famous gardens, it is strikingly beautiful. Such an ornamental plant, it is right at home in the flower bed or in containers by itself. Has deep purple leaves with lovely variegation in cream and lilac accents. Fruits are about 1 inch long and pendant shaped, starting out purple-green and ripening to red with purple-red undertones. Fruits are hot and very prolific.
Package of 15 seeds, $2.25

PEP005 Pequin

The numerous, very hot, pendant fruits of this bushy plant can grow up to 4 inches long useful for flavoring hot sauces, hot oils, and chilies. Plants can be overwintered indoors. 105 days.
15 seeds $1.95

PEP006 Red Cherry Large Sweet

This is the tasty, sweet cherry pepper that you find on many salads bars. Medium to thick-walled, 1 by 1-1/2 inch fruits mature from dark green to red. Round fruits, slightly tapered, hang freely from 18-20 inch compact plants. Perfect for pickles. 78-80 days.
20 seeds $1.95

PEP007 Super Chili Hybrid

One of the most pungent chili peppers available. Very ornamental, semi-compact, 24" plant bearing 2-1/2" elongated fruits with plenty of chili pepper. Bred for increased yields. Bring plants in where winter is severe to have a continuous supply of these peppers all winter. Ripens to green to orange to red. Ideal for patio, container, and windowsill gardens. 75 days.
20 seeds $1.95

Sweet Peppers and Bell Peppers

 PEP207 Sweet Rainbow Blend

A colorful mixture of red, green, yellow, orange, white, purple and brown peppers. Excellent vigor and disease resistance.
1/16 teaspoon package ( 25+ seeds ) $2.95

PEP208 White Diamond

A white bell pepper with medium thick fleshed, 3-4 lobed fruits that are translucent white to pale yellow, maturing to scarlet red. Excellent sweet flavor.
Package of 15 seeds, $2.25

PEP010 Albino

New color and taste for gourmet salads. Very early, sweet bell pepper that stays white along time before turning red. Dwarf bush produces medium-sized fruits with thick walls and good disease resistance. Suitable even for the far North. 75-80 days.
15 seeds $1.95

PEP011 Apple

57 days green, 73 days red ripe. Sweet apple taste! The taste of Apple's mature green or red ripe fruits is completely mild, juicy, and sweetly fruity. Its 3-4" top-shaped fruits are more blunt and rounded than lipstick, they average a little heavier, and maturity is a few days later. Medium-sized plants yield well in diverse climates.
15 seeds $1.95

PEP015 Big Bertha Hybrid

Outstanding Hybrid noted for it's extra-large size and superior quality. Large, long, seven-inch by four-inch, fruits feature thick walls and mostly four-lobed. Ideal for gourmet gardeners to use as stuffed peppers or for fresh market. The largest elongated bell available is produced on stocky plants, thirty inches tall. Resistant to Tobacco Mosaic Virus. 70 days.
15 seeds $1.95

PEP019 Chinese Giant

One of the most popular large, midseason mild peppers perfect for home garden. Bell-shaped fruits are large and blocky, with thick walls. ' Sweet-flavored peppers ripen to brilliant cherry red, averaging a huge six inches across and four to five inches deep. 90 days.
15 seeds $1.95

PEP020 Chocolate Beauty Hybrid

A gourmet cook's delight: medium to large, very smooth, three and four lobed fruits rich to green for a very unique chocolate look. Extremely sweet and tasty. Immune to Tobacco Mosaic Virus. 85 days.
15 seeds $1.95

PEP022 Early California Wonder

70 days. Sets fruit very early. Loads of sweet fruit. This is a favorite of gardeners everywhere!
25 seeds $1.25

PEP030 Hungarian Sweet

68 days. Tapering 6 in. x 1-1/2" long, fruit is light yellow, maturing to red. Good for pickling.
25 seeds $1.95

PEP205 Pimento

Heavy walled, heart shaped fruits measuring 3½" x 2½". Smooth dark green color matures to a deep, rich red.
Package of 15 seeds, $2.25

PEP048 Purple Beauty

Special purple color for gourmet chefs. Fruits are blocky, thick walled and dark purple. Compact plants set heavily, with good cover from sunscald. 70 days.
25 seeds $1.95

PEP051 Romanian Sweet Frying Pepper

78 days. Excellent sweet pepper from Romania that is delicious fried. Smooth 4" long, 2" wide tapered, pointed fruits are pale yellow and ripen red. The upright plants have good branch strength and yield early and heavily.
15 seeds $1.95

PEP204 Sweet Cherry

Beautiful 1 inch x 1.5 inch cherry peppers turning from green to red with a wonderful sweet flavor.
Package of 15 seeds, $2.25

PEP053 Sweet Chocolate

58 days green, 78 days brown ripe. Dark shiny green, ripening to a rich chocolate brown. Remarkable earliness, heavy set, and tolerance of cool nights. The fruits are smooth, medium-small, tapered, "snub nose" (blunt end) fruits with long stems. Very mild flavor, medium-thick flesh. The flesh under the skin is brick red.
15 seeds $1.95

PEP055 Whopper Improved Hybrid

Huge fruits are completely 4" by 4"- yield is enormous, and quality is top-of-the-line. Fruits are 4-lobed with thick-walls that hold up well for cooking or stuffing, yet remain sweet, tender and juicy. Protective foliage on strong plants; resistant to Tobacco Mosaic. Superior in every way! 71 days.
15 seeds $1.95

PEP061 Corno Di Toro Red

"Horn of the Bull" peppers are imported from Italy and feature fruits 8 to 10" long, curved much like a bull's horn. Ripens to a gorgeous red cone at maturity, perfect fresh or cooked. Excellent size and taste. Tall, vigorous plants. 72 days.
15 seeds $1.95

PEP063 Cubanelle

Sweet Italian frying type with delicious taste. Long, green, 2 to 3 lobed, thick-skinned fruits turn to yellow, then bright red at maturity. Peppers, 5-1/2 inches by 2-1/2 inches, are tastiest fried in oil. 65 days.
25 seeds $1.95

PEP064 Giant Aconcagua

Flavor as sweet as apples! Gourmet chefs use them in salads, stir-fried, roasted and stuffed. Long fruits grow up to 11 inches and can weigh up to 12 ounces. Best flavor at light green stage. 70 days.
15 seeds $1.95

PEP068 Peperoncino

The little Italian peppers found pickled in gourmet produce departments.  This strain is imported directly from Milan, Italy, and is unsurpassed for purity and for productivity. Abundant yields of thin, yellowish green fruits, 2 to 4 in. long, sweet until late maturity, Harvest when fruits meet full size (green). Perfect for canning. Plants are vigorous, reaching a height of about 30 in. 72 days.
15 seeds $1.95

PEP073 Sweet Banana

One of the most popular non-bell sweet peppers, fresh or cooked. Thick- walled fruits, with sweet, mild, waxy flesh or prolifically are produced on 16 to 24-inch plants, with a pendant fruiting habit. Fruits start out pale green, ripening to yellow and then red. 66 days.
25 seeds $1.95

Chile Peppers and Hot Peppers

PEP223 Asian Kung Pao Hybrid

An Asian favorite, longer and far skinnier than North American varieties with thin walls that dry quickly and seal in the flavor and heat ( about 10,000 scoville units ). Large 30 inch tall plants are loaded with skinny 4½" long peppers that mature from green to red with no loss of flavor. Fine, unique flavor. 85 days.
Package of 15 seeds, $2.25

PEP077 Anaheim Chili

One of the most popular of the chili peppers. Two celled, medium hot fruits, with medium-thick dark green flesh, ripening to bright red. Continuous bearing, high-yielding, vigorous, bushy, upright, 24 to 30 inch plants provide good foliage cover. Tasty, canned dried, fried, or pickled. 75 days.
15 seeds $1.95

PEP078 Ancho 101

This pepper is what Mexicans use to make chile rellanos. Heart-shaped fruits, 4 by 2-1/2" at the shoulder, have medium-thick walls and turn from blackish-green to rust red as they mature. The richly-flavored mature peppers are often dried and ground into chili peppers. Peppers tape to a blunt point, and wrinkled skin takes on even more character when dried. Plants are 30 to 36" tall with a spreading habit. Dried peppers may be strung into long ropes are made into wreaths. 76-80 days.
25 seeds $1.95

PEP080 California

Chile class, but so much bigger than you've ever seen! Huge, 8 to 10 inch, 4 oz. fruits with thick flesh and low pungency (about 1/3 the heat of jalapenos) and are delicious roasted, broiled, stripped and diced. Early, too! Compact plants are widely adapted; fruits mature to red but or mostly used green. 68 days. 15 seeds $1.95
15 seeds $1.95

PEP081 Big Jim

Large, medium-hot, fleshy, tapered fruits, 6 to 10" long, weigh up to 4 oz. Sturdy 24-30" plants yield 24-30 pods per plant which tend to ripen all at the same time. Flowers well, even when hot and dry. 75-80 days.
15 seeds $1.95

PEP084 Caribbean Red

What's the hottest pepper you can name? Red Habenero? Red Savina? Officially, the jury still may be out on the world's hottest pepper, but the Caribbean Red comes out on top test after test, against scores of other peppers around the world. Blunt, tapered, 1-1/2" fruits rate twice as hot as a typical commercial variety and can be used green, although they will be a little less sweet if harvested early. Plants grow to 30". 110 days.
15 seeds $1.95

PEP087 Cayenne Long Red Slim

These long, slender, wrinkled, very hot peppers are especially good for pickles, canning and drying. Brilliant red peppers are no thicker than a pencil. Fiery red, makes excellent chili and home salsa. Two-celled fruits start out dark green, and then ripen to a bright red color. 72 days.
15 seeds $1.95

PEP209 Hungarian Semi-hot Stuffing Peppers

Abundant crops of extra large, medium hot Hungarian Stuffing peppers 5½" by 3½", bright yellow fruits, with a slight green tinge. Wonderful flavor. 60 days.
Package of 15 seeds, $2.25

PEP091 Early Jalapeno

Very hot, ideal for Mexican dishes. Deep green fruits mature to red. Sausage-shaped fruits, 3-1/2 inches by 1-1/2 inches, are also perfect for pickling. Just- like Jalapeno, except earlier and better adapted to cool, coastal conditions. Compact, non-brittle bushes. 60-65 days.
25 seeds $1.95

PEP095 Garden Salsa Hybrid

A hybrid chili developed specifically to capitalize on the popularity of Mexican sauces. Fruits are 8 in. wide by 1 in. across and are usually picked green to use in salsa. Ripens to deep red. Classed as medium-hot, although will get hotter in dry weather. Tobacco Mosaic Resistant. 73 days.
15 seeds $1.95

PEP098 Habenero

This family is the hottest of the hot, Capsicum Chinese, reportedly 1,000 times hotter than Jalapeno. Native to the Yucatan, 1" by 1-1/2" lantern shaped pods, with thin, wrinkled, light green flesh, ripen to a golden-orange. Slow to germinate, must be grown in warm, moist conditions. A Carribean favorite. Plants grow 36" tall. 95 days.
15 seeds $1.95

PEP099 Haitian Hot

One of the best varieties we've found for grinding into fire hot chili powder! 67 days.
15 seeds $1.95

PEP100 Hungarian Yellow Wax

Spicy, fairly hot, banana shaped fruits. 67 days.
15 seeds $1.95

PEP103 Jamaica Scotch Bonnet

Flavor is smoky and fiery hot. 120 days.
15 seeds $1.95

PEP107 Mulato Isleno

A section from our Ancho 101 Chili pepper but at maturity turns a deep, chocolate, brown. Perfect for Mexican cuisine, like chilies rellanos. Fruits measure 6 in. in length and by 3 in. in width, with a flattened tip. Rather mild heat, making it ideal in sauces are fresh. Good resistance. 80 days.
15 seeds $1.95

PEP226 Yellow Mushroom ( Squash )

Squash-like fruits mature from green to yellow. Excellent pickled with the red version above. Very hot, can be used as seasoning when dried. 85 days.
Package of 15 seeds, $2.25

PEP111 Pasilla Bajio

The "chile negro" pepper so popular in the Southwest and Mexico when used fresh. While classified as a hot pepper, Pasilla ("little raisin") has almost no heat. Fruits have a berry, almost herbal, flavor, and add a zest to sauces, soups, stews and dishes. Strong, upright plants produce heavy yields of uniform, 8- to 10-in. peppers, thin-walled, slender, very dark blackish-green maturing to dark-brown. Easy to grow. Good resistance to Tobacco Mosaic Virus. 78 days.
15 seeds $1.95

PEP210 Portugal Fire

Tall plants loaded with 7 inch, shiny dark green fruits that mature to a deep red color. Very hot! 65 days.
Package of 15 seeds, $2.25

PEP112 Pretty Purple

Amazingly beautiful it's all purple leaves, stems, flowers and unripe peppers. Makes for a striking show in the garden. Plants hold color from seedlings until full-grown to 30" tall. Extremely hot fruits ripen to red. Dries well. 75 days.
15 seeds $1.95

PEP115 Red Cherry Large Hot

Red cherry-sized peppers perfect for pickling. Sturdy, upright plants, 18 to 24 inches, produce warm to medium hot, round fruits, up to 2 inches in diameter. 78 days.
25 seeds $1.95

PEP118 Serrano Chili

Very hot, whether green or mature red, this flavorful pepper is perfect for chili sauce, salsa, hot pepper and vinegar and pickles. Vigorous 30" plants are laden with these 2" medium thick walls. 85 days.
25 seeds $1.95

PEP218 Serrano Tampiqueno

The most popular serrano in Mexico. The very hot, candle flame shaped fruits are 2½" x ½", light green maturing to orange red with medium thick walls and their own unique flavor. 2-3 ft. tall plants are vigorous and ever bearing. Good for the home and market gardens.
Package of 15 seeds, $2.25

PEP120 Tabasco

Bred for the extra hot tobacco sauce. 80 days.
15 seeds $1.95

PEP121 Super Cayenne II Hybrid

Improved version of Super Cayenne, bred for longer fruit (up to 6" ) taller, more vigorous plants and disease resistance. Good flavor and high pungency a dandy of a pepper you'll appreciate both for its high yield and fruit quality. 70 days.
15 seeds $1.95

PEP123 Tam Jalapeno 1#

This mildly pungent pepper matures early, and is just right for pickling. Semi-compact 22 to 24" plants yield plenty of the cylindrical fruits, medium-green to red. Widely use and widely adaptable. 65-70 days.
15 seeds $1.95

PEP124 Jalapeno Fresh Market

72 days Dark green tapered fruit 3 x 1" turning red. Good pickling or fresh market.
15 seeds $1.95

PEP125 Poblano

75 days Slightly hot with a sweet flavor. Dark green 6" x 3" fruits mature to a chocolate-green color. Thick-walled fruits are ideal for fresh use, stuffed, roasted, and used in rellanos or dried as an "Ancho".
15 seeds $1.95

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