Approachable Hot Peppers

Aji Ayuyo

An incredibly beautiful and colorful pepper. This pepper ripens from a dark purple to light purple then to a light orange then finally turns to a bright red. This pepper is a slow ripening pepper. The pods are grape shaped and about one inch long. This pepper is very thick and dense, this causes the compact plants to need some support. The foliage on this plant is green. A very tasty pepper with lots of sweetness and hints of fruitiness. a great pepper for pickling, making salsa, or eating raw. This pepper has a mild spiciness level of about one thousand Scoville units.

Arapaho

No more waiting for the sweet-spicy flavor of a high-quality cayenne! Arapaho ripens well before other cayennes and delivers 8–9 inch long, wrinkled fruit that starts out green and ripens to brilliant red. The compact, vigorous plants are high yielding and provide excellent leaf cover to protect the fruit against sunscald.

Berry Amarillo

he round pods are yellow and are about one inch long with a pinched tip. This pepper ripens from a green to a yellow color then to a yellow orange when left on the plant for a long time. A slow ripening pepper. The foliage on this plant is green. A very tasty pepper with a sweet taste and a hint of fruitiness and citrus. This sweet pepper is mild with a little heat, about one thousand Scoville heat units.

Chocolate Habanero

This is a chocolate version of a habanero. This pepper is a little hotter than a typical orange habanero. The pods are bright brown and are about two inches long. This pepper ripens from a green to a light brown color then finally to a deep brown. This plant may need support. The foliage on this plant is green. A very tasty pepper with hint of smokiness, sweetness, and plum. This pepper has a hot spiciness level of about 300,000 - 400,000 Scoville units.

Giant Black Habanero

This is an exceptionally large almost black habanero pepper with stunning good looks and lots of flavor. The pods are deep brown and are about two to four inches long. This pepper ripens from a dark green to a dark chocolate color. When left on the plant for a long time the pods get a slight red hue to them. The pods are an elongated large lantern or cone shaped. This 2-4-foot-tall plant produces a lot of heavy pods and will need support. The foliage on this plant is green. A very tasty thick-walled pepper with hints of smokiness, sweetness, and plum. This pepper has a hot spiciness level of about 400,000 - 500,000 Scoville units.

Lemon Spice Jalapeno

Even those relatively new to hot peppers know of the world famous Jalapeno, but few people know about the beautiful Lemon Spice Yellow Jalapeno pepper. The Lemon Spice Yellow Jalapeno is the same size as the traditional Early Jalapeno, but it ripens to a beautiful yellow color. Many people think of the Jalapeno as a very spicy hot pepper, but the Jalapeno pepper has only a mild to moderate heat level as it averages about 2,500 to 8,000 Scoville Heat Units (SHU). Lemon Spice Yellow Jalapenos have the perfect amount of heat for those that like a little kick, but don’t want overbearing heat. This stunning ornamental delivers on both flavor and heat level as the Lemon Spice Yellow Jalapeno can be used as a colorful substitute for the traditional Jalapeno. Originally developed in New Mexico, Lemon Spice Yellow Jalapeno plants can tolerate hot, dry climates and grow to be about one to two feet tall.

Pumpkin Spice Orange Jalapeno

Even those relatively new to hot peppers know of the world famous Jalapeno, but few people know about the beautiful Pumpkin Spice Orange Jalapeno pepper. The Pumpkin Spice Orange Jalapeno is the same size as the traditional Early Jalapeno, but it ripens to a beautiful orange color. Many people think of the Jalapeno as a very spicy hot pepper, but the Jalapeno pepper has only a mild to moderate heat level as it averages about 2,500 to 8,000 Scoville Heat Units (SHU). Pumpkin Spice Orange Jalapenos have the perfect amount of heat for those that like a little kick, but don’t want overbearing heat. This stunning ornamental delivers on both flavor and heat level as the Pumpkin Spice Orange Jalapeno can be used as a colorful substitute for the traditional Jalapeno. Originally developed in New Mexico, Pumpkin Spice Orange Jalapeno plants can tolerate hot, dry climates. They have a close relative, the Lemon Spice Yellow Jalapeno, that was also developed in New Mexico.

Sugar Rush Peach

Amazing Sugar-Sweet Flavor and Some Fire Too! A sumptuous snacking pepper, Sugar Rush Peach is by far the most fun pepper to eat. The long, peach-colored fruit is packed with loads of super sweet, tropical flavor, and the seeds bring a smoky, complex heat that when brought together, creates a wild flavor experience unparalleled in any pepper we have tried. This exciting new open-pollinated variety was bred by hot pepper prodigy, Chris Fowler of Wales. Chris credits this amazing variety as being a happy accident courtesy of adventurous pollinating insects buzzing between various varieties of Capsicum baccatum, or Aji Peppers. The result: super early, high yields of these exquisite sweet-hot peppers.

Sureno (serano)

We’ve been searching for an outstanding serrano-type pepper, and found it in Sureño. If jalapeños aren’t quite spicy enough for you, this tasty pepper is definitely the way to go. The elongated deep green fruit ripen to red at maturity and will reach ½ inch wide and nearly 4 inches long from the top to the blunt tip. Sureño plants are especially robust and produce heavy yields

Tabasco Specialty Cross

This beautiful large plant produces a huge bounty of colorful edible peppers. This pepper is a cross of Tobasco pepper, a Naga pepper, and a pink tiger cross pepper. The pods are about one to two inches long, and cone shaped. This pepper ripens from purple to a light green then a lemon yellow then to light orange and finally to a dark red. The foliage on this plant is greenish purple with purple stems and some of the peppers will show hints of purple on the calyx. This pepper can get up to four feet tall and is just as wide. Large plants can produce hundreds of peppers. A very tasty pepper, with hints of fruitiness, sweetness and floral. This pepper has a hot spiciness level of about 100,000 Scoville units.