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Hatch Green Medium - Big Jim Chile Seeds

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Hatch Green Medium Big Jim Green Chile – our top selling chile!

Authentic green chile flavor and medium heat! This heirloom variety has been grown in the Hatch Valley of southwest New Mexico for over a century. Hatch is a term describing several different green chile varieties ranging from mild to extra hot. This Hatch Green variety offered here is Medium hot and perfect for roasting. Then use it every day in all your New Mexico inspired dishes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner!

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Chiles are 7" long on productive 30” plants. Easy to grow and can be started indoors for an earlier harvest, or directly sown into warm moist soil and kept wet until germination. Capsicum annuum (75 days) Heirloom - Open-Pollinated

Heat Level: Medium Scoville 2000 - 4000

~ Packet contains 30 seeds.

In early spring, start seeds indoors 8 weeks before warm nightly temperatures. Place the seeds in sterile media and cover 1/4” deep. Provide 85°F bottom heat, and bright light, and always keep moist. Seeds will germinate in 7 - 21 days. Transplant seedlings into pots and grow until there are 6 true leaves on the plant. Plant them directly into rich soil, 30” apart, or into large 5-gallon containers. Harvest chiles when they are green. If left on the plant for a couple more weeks, the chiles will turn red at full maturity.

All of our seeds are GMO-free.

We also suggest growing:

Hatch Red Medium - Joe E. Parker. This fabulous tasting chile produces very heavy yields of chiles that can be harvested in the green or red stage. They have thick flesh and medium heat. We sell Joe E. Parker as 'Hatch Red' because it is known for its huge second crop of red chile after the first crop of green chile is picked. This could easily become your new favorite!

Another great choice is Big Jim Legacy. This green chile has an incredible flavor with thick flesh and a mild to medium heat. The big pods are beautiful and make great stuffed rellenos. A choice that you are sure to love!

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Best Pepper Seeds

I'm a huge fan of sandiaseed.com - a small woman-owned seed company, they're based currently in Colorado, but originated in New Mexico. They have over a hundred different kinds of peppers, and their seeds all grow true and have good germination. We grow their Hatch chile varieties every year including this Big Jim, one of our top favorites! Also love growing their habaneros & jalapenos (they have several different varieties of each!) plus some of their sweet peppers like Shishitos and Fushimis. They have super fast shipping, and have a seed replacement policy and will replace seeds if they fail (though I've never had a problem in the many years of growing about 15 different varieties each year from them for over 8 years.) Two thumbs way up from this chilehead. :)

Our family's favorite chile!

Great seeds, good germination, plants grow quickly and produce lots of pods for roasting. Great flavor and just the right amount of spice. We grow these every year in our garden in Utah.

Big Jim!

Very productive plants even up here in New England!

Get these every year

These grow large. We roast them and peel them and make green chile from them. My husband adores them.
Made Chili Mac for my Step son and he ate it all in one sitting.
I plant 10 plants every year.

Perfect for green chile

These germinated and grew beautifully, was happy to use them to create the delicious green chile of my home but in a new country!

Excellent

Excellent germination, heat level and flavor. After living where Hatch chilis were a part of our every day, I’m glad to grow them in Idaho!

Best Chile Seeds!

These are my favorite so far. I've planted a few other varieties, but this one is most flavorful to me.

Taste of NM in SC

I love these! The germination rate has always been close to 100%, the plants are hardy and produce an abundance of very tasty green chiles. The heat is just right but of course can fluxuate with growing conditions.

Great Producers

I’ve grown this variety for a few years now and they consistently produce very well here in NC. I buy fresh seeds each year and have had a great sprout rate.

Great Producer!

We roasted most and froze for the winter,What a Treat!!

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