sangria pepper

Sangria Pepper Guide: Heat, Flavor, Uses

What are Sangria peppers? Talk about a blast of color. The Sangria pepper is confetti-like in the garden – a world of whites, yellows, oranges, reds, and purples, all on the same plant. It’s one of the more festive ornamental peppers you’ll come across and …

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Black Prince Pepper

Black Prince Pepper: A Little Royalty

Small in size, big on beauty… Scoville heat units (SHU): 5,000 – 30,000Jalapeño reference point: Equal to 16 times hotterOrigin: MexicoProducts and seeds: Black Prince pepper on Amazon Reaching little more than a half inch long, the Black Prince pepper is tiny even when considered …

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Royal Black pepper

Royal Black Pepper Guide: Heat, Flavor, Uses

What are Royal Black peppers? The Royal Black pepper may be small (pequin-like in fact), but its looks is one that’ll certainly grab your attention. Its tiny purplish-black fruits are nestled among greenish-black leaves, and as they age those pods pop a crimson red. Among …

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Roatan pumpkin habanero

Roatan Pumpkin Habanero Guide: Heat, Flavor, Uses

What are Routan pumpkin habanero peppers? Some habaneros are just monsters among monsters. Like the wicked Red Savina habanero, the Roatan pumpkin habanero punches well beyond its weight class (100,000 to 500,000 Scoville heat units), holding the potential to reach super-hot status within its pumpkin-like …

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Jalafuego pepper

Jalafuego Pepper Guide: Heat, Flavor, Uses

What are jalafuego peppers? Like everything in your life super-sized? Meet the Jalafuego pepper. It’s everything you love about the popular jalapeño pepper, just more of it. This hybrid, often nearly doubling the size of a traditional jalapeño, makes one tasty popper pepper – not only …

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NuMex Big Jim

NuMex Big Jim Guide: Heat, Flavor, Uses

What are NuMex Big Jim peppers? New Mexican peppers are often big-bodied — from Anaheim peppers to Hatch chilies they are meaty and thick. But none hold a candle to the likes of the NuMex Big Jim. It’s the giant of the pepper world topping …

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filius blue pepper

Filius Blue Pepper Guide: Heat, Flavor, Uses

What are Filius Blue peppers? Shades of blue are one of the least common color schemes of pepper plants. The Filius Blue, therefore, stands out among ornamental peppers, with its tiny chilies taking on deep dark indigo blue and purplish hues. It’s a compact chili …

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Apache pepper

Apache Pepper Guide: Heat, Flavor, Uses

What are Apache peppers? Best known for its compact shape, the Apache pepper is a dwarf plant perfect for container gardening, both indoors (in a sunny corner or window sill) and out. But don’t let the size of the plant lull you into thinking there’s …

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Naga Viper

Naga Viper Guide: Heat, Flavor, Uses

What are Naga Viper peppers? What do you get when you cross three super-hots? The Naga Viper. It sounds like a crazy pepper joke, but this extreme chili – a wicked offspring of the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, Naga Morich, and ghost pepper (Bhut Jolokia) – …

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Explosive Ember pepper

Explosive Ember Pepper Guide: Heat, Flavor, Uses

What are Explosive Ember peppers? Ornamental peppers come in many colors, often brightening up landscaping like Christmas lights, but few have the sense of drama of the Explosive Ember pepper. It’s a bold look – pods in shades of jewel-tone purple and red against dark …

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