Let's talk about peppers!



HOT Cherry: Hot cherry pepper that yields up to 50% more than the older, open-pollinated type. Thick-walled fruit is round to oval and matures from green to red. Pungency is medium-hot with about 20% less heat than a Jalapeno. 65 days.
 
Jalapeño: Fiery, thick-walled peppers grow 3 in. long and 1-1/2 inches wide, with rounded tips. Dark green at first, then turning red. Good for fresh use or pickling; famous for nachos and other Tex-Mex dishes. 75 days.
 
California Wonder PS: High yields and extra-large fruit have made this probably the most popular open-pollinated bell pepper for market and home gardeners alike. Dark green peppers are mostly 4-lobed and blocky, about 4 1/2 inches long and 4 inches wide, with crisp, thick walls and sweet taste. Fruit eventually ripens to bright red. Tall plants are tobacco mosaic virus resistant and produce an abundance of peppers over a very long season. 75 days.
 
Banana Supreme Hybrid: An early Sweet Banana type with very high yields of yellow sweet peppers that ripen to bright red. Larger than the standard type, fruit is 8 inches long and 2 inches across, tapering to a point. Vigorous plants are medium to large, upright and spreading. 65 days.
 
Italian Roasting Pepper: (hot/mild Hungarian wax) Great for roasting or frying for sandwiches or eating as an appetizer. Like all peppers they should be grown in full sun. Peppers like the ground to be warm when planted. The Hungarian wax pepper is a pastel yellow chili pepper also known as the hot yellow pepper or hot wax pepper. The Hungarian wax is closely related to the mild banana pepper. These peppers appear so much alike they cannot usually be distinguished except by taste. The Hungarian wax pepper tapers to a rounded point and averages about 6 inches (15cm) in length and is about 1 1/2 inches (3.8cm) wide. An eye-catching hot pepper. 5"x1" thick-fleshed fruits. The perfect choice for stuffing, roasting and frying. Great for pickling and adding a spicy kick to your favorite sauce. Very productive. Maturity 60 days pale yellow to 85 days red.

Hungarian wax peppers are medium hot, with heat scores that range between 5,000 and 15,000 Scoville heat units. How high a chili scores on the heat scale is determined by high-performance liquid chromatography measurement of how many parts per million of capsaicin it contains. This figure is then converted into the historic Scoville heat units that signify how much dilution is necessary to drown out the chili’s heat. The heat level of a chili is given as a range because it can vary depending on how and where the pepper was cultivated.

 
Sweet Italian Fryers or Roasters (Cubanelle Frying Peppers) : Yellow-green, frying type pepper. Six inch long fruits have thin walls and waxy flesh. Excellent split and fried in olive oil. 65 days.


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