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Easter Ornamental NuMex Pepper Seeds
Easter Ornamental NuMex Pepper Seeds
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This pepper grows into a beautiful and compact, 8-12” plant with many small clusters of 4-6 fruits on top of the plant. Colors range from lavender to light yellow and then maturing to a light orange. Peppers are spicy and edible. The clusters of peppers on the tips of each compact branch are an ever-changing array of pastel Easter colors. You will see shades of lavender, yellow, and orange all born on a plant. This plant is heat and humidity tolerant and perseveres in rain or drought and earned it the All-America Selections Award. This winning plant really turns heads and is stunning in containers or mass plantings.
Capsicum annuum (85 days) Open-pollinated - Ornamental
Heat Level: Hot Scoville: Unknown
~ Packet contains 10 seeds.
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In early spring, start seeds indoors 8 weeks prior to warm nightly temperatures. Place the seeds in sterile media and cover 1/4” deep. Provide 85°F bottom heat, bright light, and keep moist at all times. Seeds will germinate in 7 - 14 days. Transplant seedlings into pots and grow until there are 6 true leaves on the plant. Plant them directly into rich soil, 20" apart for a border or into patio containers.
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These are definitely ornamental, they add a nice touch of color to your garden.. and they are spicy too!
This will be the second year planting Easter Ornamental peppers. Last year, I experimented with this varietal and they were the eye-catching centerpiece of my garden! Not only are they beautiful to look at, the little pepper plants are amazingly prolific, producing hundreds of edible peppers. I harvested them when they matured to a deep orange shade and dehydrated most of them. I also candied a batch in a simple syrup blend for a sweet treat that packs a punch!
I have never seen prettier peppers. Great in pretty pots.
These were by far the prettiest peppers I've grown. We had them in pots and they were jus beautiful. At the end of the season there were a ton of them, they had all ripened to an orange-red, so we used them to make your fermented hot sauce recipe in our crock and it turned out great!
These are surprisingly beautiful - and are quite striking in my tall ceramic pot in my garden. Very bushy, but not huge plants, they are gorgeous. I've tried a couple of the bright orange ripe ones, they have a bit of heat but not a dealbreaker. I think I'll use them for hot pepper flakes at the end of this season, they're still going strong in brilliant orange right now (Oct 1st in Colorado).
These are definitely the prettiest peppers I've grown! The color transformation is amazing, the peppers really do look like they are glowing, especially at twilight. They don't seem to be too spicy, but maybe I overwatered them and washed out the heat. But I'll chop them and add them to salads or salsa for extra color and a bit of heat. I want to grow these Easter ornamental peppers every year, they are stunning in tall pots.
Wow, these are absolutely stunning. I planted several in tall ceramic pots and they were the centerpiece of my garden beds. The colors are so beautiful in pastels, they almost look like they glow! And, I used them all at the end of the season by drying them and crushing for flakes. They are also a great addition to salsa recipes, very hot. I will grow these every year from here on out, they're my new favorite pepper plant!
They start out all purple and there are tons of peppers on the plant, all pointed upward. Quite ornamental. I will grow these every year in my edible garden, they make quite an accent.
These are the prettiest ornamental peppers, my plants were super busy and packed with peppers in pastels. We thought they were great added to salsa, nice and spicy!
Just got my seeds, thanks for the fast delivery. I can't wait to grow these! I grow your other ornamentals like the Goat Horns and NuMex Twilight in ceramic pots on our flagstone patio, they look so beautiful! Then, at the end of the season we dry and crush them to use for hot pepper flakes.
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