Days to Maturity: 80 from transplant
A real "fooled you" plant, this pepper looks and smells for all the world like a Habenero, the hottest pepper known to home gardeners. Yet you can bite right into it and enjoy crunchy-sweet flavor. Give it a try this season and you'll find it's the perfect combination of spicy and sweet, NOT hot but packed with rich, nutritious flavor.
These bright orange peppers measure about 2 inches long and slightly less wide, slightly wrinkled and curled. They mature from silvery-green to bright orange on the plant, looking as inspiring as they taste.
Start seeds indoors or, in climate with short growing seasons, outdoors at least one week after last frost. If starting indoors, allow 7 to 10 weeks for the seeds to mature into seedlings large enough to transplant safely. Space them about 12 to 16 inches apart in the sunny garden. Fertilize when the blooms appear, and water well. Fruit is most nutritious if allowed to ripen on the plant.
