Chilis
Vegetables Chili Peppers

 

There are a number of specialist chili pepper suppliers around but with so many varieties that it makes it difficult to know what to choose. We include here a small but interesting range that should be sufficient for most tastes. PLEASE NOTE: - more vegetable seeds in our vegetable section!
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Capsicum annum Anaheim

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Anaheim Chili Pepper (20 seeds Per Pkt)
A versatile medium-hot pepper used fresh, canned, fried, or dried. Long 6" pendant bright red fruits are borne abundantly on productive, vigorous plants.

Capsicum annum Black Hungarian

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Black Hungarian Chili (20 seeds Per Pkt)
Jalapeno shaped Black fruits ripening to red, mildly hot and with a delicious flavour. The tall 3ft plants have purple veined green leaves and beautiful large purple flowers that make this variety also very ornamental.

Capsicum annum Habanaro Hot Chocolate

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Jamaican Hot Chocolate (10 seeds Per Pkt)
These shiny, habanero-type peppers are deep chocolate-brown when ripe and ribbed or wrinkled, resembling large dates or prunes. Fruits are 1/2" to 2" long and with an extremely hot Caribbean flavour that is strong and smoky. This strain originated from a pepper found in a market in Jamaica.

Capsicum annum Habanero

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Habanero Chili (20 seeds Per Pkt)
An extremely hot Chili pepper 100 times hotter than jalapino and used in sauces etc. Small lantern shaped red fruits, Habanero types hold the record for the hottest cultivated peppers.

Capsicum annum Hong Kong F1

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Cayenne Pepper - (20 seeds Per Pkt)
A cayenne variety, with thick flesh and waxy skin tapering to a point with a very high percentage of straight fruits. Fruits are pendent setting and ripen green to bright red with good ornamental value.

Capsicum annum Jalapino

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Chili Pepper Jalapeno (20 seeds Per Pkt)
Standard type with 3" fruits having thick walls and continuous fruit setting, used for hot pepper eating contests in the USA. Fruits ripen from green to red. A very hot pepper. Used on nachos and chopped in Mexican sauces giving them an excellent flavour.

Capsicum annum Numex Big Jim

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Numex Big Jim (20 seeds Per Pkt)
Released by Dr. Nakayama, this New Mexico cultivar is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's largest pepper.  It produces 12" long, thick, smooth, red fleshy fruits.  Because of the large pods, the cultivar is a favourite of home gardeners and cooks for making chile rellenos.  Pungency though is variable from plant to plant.

Capsicum annum Purple Jalapeno

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Chili Purple Jalapeno (20 seeds Per Pkt)

A large, Jalapeno pepper that turns deep-purple before maturing to red. Full Jalapeno flavour and heat; great for salsa and other Mexican foods. Plants are both productive and ornamental.

Capsicum annum Purple Tiger

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Chili Pepper Purple Tiger (20 seeds Per Pkt)
A very attractive hot pepper also ideal as an ornamental that produces hot purple fruits turning from purple to tri colour before maturing red. Foliage is tri coloured (green, purple and white) making it an ideal pot plant.

Capsicum annum Rocoto

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Manzano Pepper - Mixed Colours (20 seeds Per Pkt)
Very hot peppers to 2" long and 1" wide, often resembling miniature bell peppers. Rocoto peppers have distinctive black seeds and in our mix peppers mature green to yellow, orange or red.

Capsicum annum Tabasco

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Tabasco Pepper - (20 seeds Per Pkt)
The well known Chili used for making Tabasco sauce. fruits measure 3cm by 1cm in upright pods ripening from green/yellow to orange/yellow. Extremely Hot!

Capsicum annum Tepin

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Tepin Wild Pepper - (20 seeds Per Pkt)
Believed to be one of the Worlds hottest peppers, this one is a wild perennial of unique flavour. Fruits are bright red, small and round. Plants fruit best in second year and should be brought indoors to over winter. Germination may be slow and erratic.

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Germination -- Easy Moderate and Challenging

Backlog for Fresh Seed

Hardiness - To -5°C җ To -10°C җҗ Fully Hardy җҗҗ

Needs Shady Position Sunny Position Water Loving