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Aji Amarillo Seeds - ON SALE
Aji Amarillo Seeds - ON SALE
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Aji Amarillo is the chile most frequently used in Peru and probably the most important ingredient in Peruvian cooking. Aji means chili pepper and amarillo means yellow in Spanish. This chile is found in the famous appetizer Papa a la Huancaína (Potatoes with Spicy Cheese Sauce), and in the classic dish Ají de Gallina (Peruvian Creamed Spicy Chicken). Its fruity mango-like taste is delicious with a nice tropical aroma.
The Capsicum baccatum species all have fuzzy leaves as a distinguishing characteristic, and this one is no different. The plant is lanky and very large 4' - 5' tall. It produces an abundance of 5-6” peppers that start off green and mature to deep yellowish-orange. It has a wonderful fruity flavor with intense heat. Capsicum baccatum (85 days)
Heat Level: Very Hot Scoville 30,000 - 50,000
~ Packet contains 10 seeds.
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, and bright light, and keep moist at all times. 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 yellowish-orange.
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The pepper seeds germinated 9/10 and took a while to grow but once they were planted outside the plants grew well and over the summer produced a lot of peppers. I made sauce with the peppers.
Really enjoyed this guy pickled, too. Very fruity undertones and hot!
Can't handle the Arkansas heat. The seeds germinated well. The bush grew big and was loaded with peppers but they would fall off anytime we got a couple of hot days. Once the weather cooled off there wasn't enough time to ripen before the frost came. Maybe with some shade or a milder climate it could work?
The ONE pepper that ripened and didn't fall off for some reason had an interesting flavor. It kind of tasted and smelled like a pepper with tropical fruit, like a papaya or mango or something, crisp, fruity, refreshing, picante.
Good germination (about 95%) and they seem to be doing well. They're starting to get their true leaves and growing on despite temperature swings. They've also been pretty hardy with being on a heat mat, cycling through dry to moist soil conditions. Thanks Sandia Seed Co
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See my original review on July 22. I am revising and increasing my rating. After my post, in early August here in the northeast, my Aji Amarillo plants exploded with fruit. Literally hundreds of peppers on 8 plants (fyi, plants grew to 7+ feet tall). It was indicated that this pepper plant takes a long time to mature and produce peppers, so I guess I wasn't patient enough. I'll start them a month earlier, cut back on nitrogen early, so that I might get some to actually ripen on the vine (almost all of them I harvested still green before frost). Delicious pepper and the perfect amount of heat.
Ordered these two seeds based on information I read. Aji Amarillo used in Peruvian cooking. Spicy hot but not killer hot with a hint of fruity flavour.
Found Tepin interesting and a challenge. Small almost peppercorn size with a punch eaten raw. Supposed to be hard to be grow.
Planted both seeds and both grew well. Took the Aji Amarillo indoors on a sunny window and left the Tepin in a green house 0C temperature zone 5.
Still have both plants growing on its second year.
Had high hopes - started indoors in Feb, only had one seed from the packet germinate. Put into raised bed, plant grew exceptionally well but took forever to produce a pepper. Eventually the plant was full of peppers, but not a single one reached maturity (and we had a really warm fall). Very disappointing. Green peppers taste ok, but absolutely no heat.
Sorry to hear that, Aji Amarillos tend to often take a long time to ripen we've found, and some years are better than others, probably depending on the weather. In a Denver garden this year, one of our other customers had a similar problem, there were a ton of peppers but they just didn't ripen in time for the first frost. Apparently the summer was very hot, so the peppers were delayed by over 90˚ F weather for most of June, July and August. If you're looking for faster ripening peppers for Zone 5 that are more likely to ripen because their days to harvest is less, check out our Fastest Growing Peppers category: https://www.sandiaseed.com/collections/fastest-growing-peppers
Thanks for your feedback! Happy growing!
Peppers have a lovely flavor and a great following at our garden center. Quite similar to lemon drop, but different enough that we grow and sell both. Both great peppers! Many of the employees grow both and love them including myself .In the northeast they produce late but you still get a decent amount. Plants get quite big and beautiful.Definitely a winner!
Got a three-year-old bush of these that I overwintered in a greenhouse, started from Sandia seed ordered January 2020. They make the best nachos I've ever had: slice a couple chilis into coins, fry with finely-chopped carne asada, and they're perfect. My only warning is that mine aren't spicy: presumably due to PNW gloom, mine always come out Jalapeno-adjacent, not even close to 30k Scoville.
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