Czech Black Hot Pepper - Organic

seeds

0.2g: $3.50; Item: 3816-A
0.4g: $5.25; Item: 3816-B
1g: $8.25; Item: 3816-C
2g: $12.25; Item: 3816-D
4g: $20.50; Item: 3816-E

Capsicum annuum
Deep red skin. (65 days) Open pollinated.

Fruits so striking that seed grower Roberta Bailey kept a bowl on her table just to admire. Black when immature, the 2½"-long conical peppers ripen to lustrous garnet. Mild juicy thick-walled flesh runs with cherry-red juice when cut. The heat, a tad less than a jalapeño, is in the ribs and seeds and is “just right for many of us,” says one customer. Jake K. of Millbridge, Maine, has candied slivered Czech Blacks like citrus peel for a spicy-sweet holiday treat. Bears very early with about 20 pointed fruits per 2½–3' plant. 2,000–5,000 Scovilles.

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Quick Details

Hybrid Status: open pollinated
Skin Color: deep red
Days to Maturity: 65 days
Lifecycle: perennial grown as an annual

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Compare with other Hot Peppers
Variety	Product Type	Hybrid Status	Skin Color	Days to Maturity	Lifecycle
Beaver Dam	seeds	open pollinated	red-orange	80 days	perennial grown as an annual
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
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
Carrot Bomb ECO	seeds	open pollinated	tangerine	74 days	perennial grown as an annual
Carrot Bomb Organic	seeds	open pollinated	tangerine	74 days	perennial grown as an annual
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
Hidalgo Serrano ECO	seeds	open pollinated	red	75 days	perennial grown as an annual
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
Bulgarian Carrot Chili Organic	seeds	open pollinated	fluorescent orange	68 days	perennial grown as an annual
Ho Chi Minh ECO	seeds	open pollinated	yellow	68 days	perennial grown as an annual
Thai Hot Organic	seeds	open pollinated	red	82 days	perennial grown as an annual
Matchbox Organic	seeds	open pollinated	red	75 days	perennial grown as an annual
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
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

Additional Information

Hot Peppers

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:

Bell, Banana and Pimiento peppers 0
Habanada 0
Beaver Dam <1k
Ancho, Poblano 1–2k
Anaheim ~1–2.5k
Czech Black 2–5k
Fireball 2.5–5k
Jaluv an Attitude 2.5–5k
LRN Cayenne 3.5–5k
Early Jalapeño 4–6k
Hungarian Hot Wax 5–10k
Hot Portugal 5–30k
Fish 5–30k
Bulgarian Carrot 5–30k
Thai Hot 25–40k
Ho Chi Minh ~30k
Matchbox 30–50k
Hinkelhatz ~125k
Habanero 200–325k
self defense pepper spray 2–3M
police-grade pepper spray 5.3M
straight capsaicin 15–16M.

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.

Peppers

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:

BLS: Bacterial Leaf Spot
CMV: Cucumber Mosaic Virus
TMV: Tobacco Mosaic Virus

Germination Testing

For the latest results of our germination tests, please see the germination page.

Our Seeds are Non-GMO

All of our seeds are non-GMO, and free of neonicotinoids and fungicides. Fedco is one of the original companies to sign the Safe Seed Pledge.

Shipping

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