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Jalapeño Early Seeds - Short Season Pepper and Easy to Grow

Jalapeño Early Seeds - Short Season Pepper and Easy to Grow

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Early Jalapeño Seeds - Perfect for Short Growing Seasons!

Introducing Early Jalapeño Seeds, the ideal choice for gardeners in cooler climates or those looking for a quick harvest and great jalapeno flavor. These heirloom, non-GMO seeds produce one of the fastest-maturing jalapeño varieties, ready for picking in just 65 days from planting. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced gardener, these open-pollinated seeds guarantee a bountiful yield of flavorful, medium-hot peppers.

Why Choose Early Jalapeño Seeds?

These Early Jalapeño Seeds are specially bred to thrive in shorter growing seasons, making them perfect for northern gardeners or anyone eager for an early harvest. The compact 24 inch plants produce an abundance of 3 inch long, 1 inch wide pods with thick, crisp skin - ideal for fresh salsas, poppers, pickling, or drying into smoky chipotle peppers.

Versatile in the Kitchen

Jalapeños are a kitchen favorite for good reason! Their 5,000-15,000 Scoville heat level adds a perfect kick to dishes without overwhelming spice. Enjoy them:

  • Fresh in salsas and guacamole
  • Stuffed as crispy jalapeño poppers
  • Pickled for tangy nacho toppings
  • Smoke-dried into rich chipotle peppers
  • Blended into zesty jellies and hot sauces

Easy to Grow

For best results with your Early Jalapeño Seeds:

  • Start indoors 8 weeks before last frost
  • Use sterile soil and maintain 85°F for germination
  • Transplant after 6 true leaves appear
  • Space plants 30 inches apart in rich soil or 5-gallon containers
  • Harvest green or wait for red maturity

These productive plants will keep you supplied with fresh jalapeños all season long!

Ready for your earliest jalapeño harvest yet? Plant these Early Jalapeño Seeds today and enjoy homegrown heat in record time!

  • Each packet contains 10 seeds
  • Heat Level: Very Hot
  • SHU: 5,000-15,000
  • Maturity: 65 days after transplant
  • Pod Size: 3 in.  Plant Size: 24 in.
  • Origin: U.S.A
  • Capsicum annuum
  • Heirloom and Open-Pollinated
  • Untreated and Non-GMO
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Customers praised these seeds for "100% germination" and early, prolific harvests. Shoppers noted "productive all season long" plants with moderate to nice heat. One reviewer experienced no heat despite abundant fruit. Growers appreciated resilience, with plants surviving extreme weather. Ideal for smoking into chipotles or fresh eating.

  • 100% germination! These grew into healthy, productive plants - the Jalapeños just keep coming.
  • One of the most reliable hot peppers - germinates reliably, matures early, tastes great!
  • Survived hurricane Helene and freezing, kept producing! These seeds are remarkable.
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  • 5 stars: 12 (86%)
  • 4 stars: 1 (7%)
  • 3 stars: 1 (7%)
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Cmartcookie
Bulletin: Jalapenos survive Helene and early freezes!

3 days of flooding rains followed by hurricane Helene, yhen several days of freezing, and my jalapeños in 3 colors survived and kept producing! Uncovered! I had JUST harvested all my garden, mostly jalapeños, but no chance to process them before power outage. Yes, I was a cry baby,and panicked for 10 days with my peppers probably rotting, closed in a powerless fridge. But guess what! They all turned their brightest proper colors, and I had my huge crop of peppers to can! But time progressed. We had freezes! I checked my plants just to see... MORE jalapeños! These seeds are remarkable, even from starting under grow lights, to doing so well in the garden. I'm sold on Sandia Seeds!

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Dale DuVall
Jalapeno to Chipotle

I got these to make Chipotle chilis. These fruit early and are mild-ish when green, but when they ripen, they are perfect for smoking and drying with great flavor and nice heat. Don't plant too many as they are quite prolific.

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Vicki
Productive jalapenos!!

These were the first to harvest last year, and very productive. I'm going to grow them every year!

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Don Strano
A favorite

This variety is always a favorite in my garden. It grows well and produces great peppers throughout the summer and into the fall. with moderate heat.

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Shane Aylesworth
Did great

I grew these indoors under a grow light, although I started with fluorescent lights. I'm a beginner and these had kind of a hard life with my lack of knowledge. They ended up giving us quite a bit of peppers though and they tasted great. I just ordered more jalapeno and bell pepper seeds. If you grow indoors use the best grow light you can afford, fluorescent lights can get you to seedlings but they have to be close.

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Vicki
Favorite Jalapeno Seeds

These were our favorite last summer, we're growing the rest of the seeds out this year, every one sprouted and they were the first of our peppers to germinate. We're excited to be enjoying some jalapeno poppers and salsas this summer with these spicy gems. They turn red if you leave them on the plant to ripen!

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Chris
No heat!

We had an unusually hot summer for the PNW (temps in the 30's and higher) so the plants did very well with a ton of fruit, but for some reason they had absolutely no heat at all. Other seeds I tried from Sandia also did very well (pequin, arbol, malagueta) and had plenty of heat.

Hi Chris! Thanks for the feedback. We find that these Early Jalapenos, depending on the conditions, sometimes are quite mild and sometimes they get quite hot. Their Scoville ranges from 5,000 - 30,000. Depending on when they are picked, they may not be as hot as more mature pods. Overwatering and/or weather conditions can also affect heat. It sounds like the other peppers you grew did well and were hot - so it's hard to say what caused this lack of heat in these Jalapenos you grew this season, but we hope you'll try again and let us know if you have the same results in a different season! Let the pods stay on the plant longer as they often get more spicy as they ripen fully. We also recommend growing our Yellow Jalapeno 'Lemon Spice' that is still an early jalapeno but has more heat with up to 30,000 Scovilles and comes in bright yellow. Thanks for growing our seeds!

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Myrna Macke
Yum

I love these jalapeño peppers. I can’t wait every year to start getting fresh peppers from the garden. My favorite summer lunch is finely chopped jalapeño peppers mixed with a little salt. I eat them on natch chips. So yummy.

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Stan
Best Jalapeno Seeds

We've been growing these early jalapeno seeds for several years, and it has been one of the most reliable hot peppers in our garden. It germinates reliably, matures early, and tastes great with a nice spicy kick! Bonus – it continues producing late into the season right up until the first frost! We will keep growing these every year.

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Jill
Productive all season long

These produced peppers early and continuously right up until frost. Good germination, they sprouted quick with bottom heat!

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Edgar V.
Fast seed germination!

Growing well. Flowers only right now, so peppers are coming! Can't wait.

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Sebastian G.
Great Jalapeno seeds!

We'll grow these ever year, great germination, great productivity on healthy plants. These were the earliest peppers in the garden last year! Gracias!

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Ginger
Great Jalapeño seeds - 100% germination!

Wow, every single one of these seeds germinated (I used a heat mat under an Aerogarden seed starter Tray) – I had to share the extra seedlings with my gardener friends! These grew into healthy, productive plants – and the Jalapeños just keep coming. These were some of the first peppers we harvested this season. I will definitely be growing these babies again! Yum. Great for Jalapeño Poppers (slice in half, fill with cream cheese, and throw on the grill – DELISH!)

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