Also known as California Chile and Chile Verde. Cultivated for canning in a factory near Anaheim around 1900. Anaheim is the pepper typically used for chiles rellenos. 7" long fruits tapering to a point turn from dark green to red at maturity. Pungent, but not particularly hot. 900–2,500 Scovilles.
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| Variety | Product Type | Hybrid Status | Skin Color | Days to Maturity | Lifecycle |
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| Beaver Dam | seeds | open pollinated | red-orange | 80 days | perennial grown as an annual |
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Beaver Dam Organic |
seeds | open pollinated | red-orange | 80 days | perennial grown as an annual |
| Anaheim | seeds | open pollinated | red | 78 days | perennial grown as an annual |
| Trident Poblano/Ancho | seeds | F-1 hybrid | red | 64 days green, 80 days red ripe | perennial grown as an annual |
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Czech Black Organic |
seeds | open pollinated | deep red | 65 days | perennial grown as an annual |
| Fireball | seeds | F-1 hybrid | red | 75 days | perennial grown as an annual |
| Long Red Narrow Cayenne | seeds | open pollinated | red | 75 days | perennial grown as an annual |
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Carrot Bomb ECO |
seeds | open pollinated | tangerine | 74 days | perennial grown as an annual |
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Carrot Bomb Organic |
seeds | open pollinated | tangerine | 74 days | perennial grown as an annual |
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Jaluv An Attitude Organic |
seeds | open pollinated | red | 75 days | perennial grown as an annual |
| Early Jalapeño | seeds | open pollinated | red | 65 days green, 85 days ripe | perennial grown as an annual |
| San Joaquin Jalapeño | seeds | F-1 hybrid | red | 70 days green, 90 days red ripe | perennial grown as an annual |
| Hungarian Hot Wax | seeds | open pollinated | red | 68 days | perennial grown as an annual |
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Hidalgo Serrano ECO |
seeds | open pollinated | red | 75 days | perennial grown as an annual |
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Fish Organic |
seeds | open pollinated | red | 80 days | perennial grown as an annual |
| Bulgarian Carrot Chili | seeds | open pollinated | fluorescent orange | 68 days | perennial grown as an annual |
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Bulgarian Carrot Chili Organic |
seeds | open pollinated | fluorescent orange | 68 days | perennial grown as an annual |
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Ho Chi Minh ECO |
seeds | open pollinated | yellow | 68 days | perennial grown as an annual |
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Thai Hot Organic |
seeds | open pollinated | red | 82 days | perennial grown as an annual |
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Matchbox Organic |
seeds | open pollinated | red | 75 days | perennial grown as an annual |
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Hinkelhatz Organic |
seeds | open pollinated | red | 88 days | perennial grown as an annual |
| Orange Habanero | seeds | open pollinated | tangerine | 90 days | perennial grown as an annual |
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Habanada Organic |
seeds | open pollinated | orange | 100 days | perennial grown as an annual |
| Some Like it Hot Blend | seeds | open pollinated | multi-colored | 64-90 days | perennial grown as an annual |
About 110–200 seeds/g, except Thai Hot.
Chiles have been consumed in Mexico for more than 5,000 years. In the U.S. hot peppers have increased dramatically in popularity.
Capsaicin compounds cause most of the heat in peppers. Warm nighttime temperatures stimulate maximum development of capsaicins and increase pungency levels. Pungency is expressed in Scoville units, after Wilbur Scoville, an Englishman who devised the method used for eighty years to measure the heat in peppers.
Some Scoville ratings for general categories are:
If you overdose on hot peppers, plain carbs like bread, rice or tortillas are better than any liquid at removing the heat from your mouth. Handle hot peppers with caution; capsaicin is highly alkaloid and can burn skin.
Days to full-color maturity are from transplanting date.
Capsicum comes from the Greek kapto which means ‘bite.’
Culture: Start indoors in March or April. Minimum germination soil temperature 60°, optimal range 68-95°. Set out in June. Very tender, will not tolerate frost, dislike wind, will not set fruit in cold or extremely hot temperatures or in drought conditions. Black plastic highly recommended. Row cover improves fruit set in windy spots. Pick first green peppers when they reach full size to increase total yield significantly. Green peppers, though edible, are not ripe. Peppers ripen to red, yellow, orange, etc.
Saving Seed: Saving pepper seed is easy! Remove core of the fully ripe pepper (usually red or orange) and dry on a coffee filter. When dry, rake seeds off the core with a butter knife. To ensure true-to-type seed, grow open- pollinated varieties and separate by 30 feet. Use only the first fruits for seed; allow only 3–4 fruits per plant to grow and remove all others. Fewer fruits = larger seeds = greater seed viability. Later fruits often have germination rates of only 60%.
Diseases:
For the latest results of our germination tests, please see the germination page.
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