List of Peppers by HeatHere is a list of all of our peppers from around the world based on their heat level, from sweet to super hot!October 2023 Update: The new OFFICIAL hottest pepper in 2023 is Pepper X, which just dehtroned the former champ, the Carolina Reaper. Read more about it »Find the perfect pepper with the just the right amount of heat from this list of over 100 peppers of the world! Click on the peppers below to read about each of them: List of Peppers by Heat Level: PEPPER SCOVILLES Bell C...
Hottest Pepper 2021You got that right, the Hottest Pepper in 2021 is still the Carolina Reaper! The wicked Carolina Reaper still will likely hold the Guinness World Record crown again in 2021 for being the world's hottest pepper. Unless someone happens to invest in getting a pepper tested prior to the end of 2020, which we highly doubt in this age of Covid-19. The problem is that it is difficult and expensive to test peppers to get into the book of world records, so since the Reaper took the crown in 2013,...
Dragons Breath PlantsTHERE BE DRAGONS! The Dragon's Breath Pepper is FINALLY HERE!**Sorry, in 2021/2022 we are not currently offering Dragon's Breath seeds due to the unreliability of the strain. Sorry, we just don't want you to grow something that doesn't grow true or consistently! In the meantime, grow some of our reigning champs of hottest peppers such as the hottest Carolina Reaper (It's true, the Carolina Reaper continues to be the official Worlds Hottest Pepper in 2021 going into 2022, ...
Dragon PeppersGROW DRAGONS IN YOUR GARDEN! We're excited to be offering two new Dragon Pepper seeds for all you chileheads out there! These wicked hot beasts are new to our Peppers of the World collection, and are sure to make great hot sauces and salsas! These two new Dragon Peppers are now for sale*! The Komodo Dragon Pepper is super hot with a Scoville of 1,400,000 – which means it's WICKED HOT! This dragon is sure to please any spice-lover and it will make a great fermented hot sauce. ...
Types of Hot PeppersThere are a ton of different types of hot peppers! Sandia Seed is all about chile peppers, and we carry over 100 types of peppers from around the world. Try growing a new type of hot pepper this year! We add new varieties each season, so you can grow peppers of the world in your garden! Looking for mild or super spicy peppers or somewhere in-between?View our List of Peppers by Heat » View our full list of all the types of peppers we carry in one place on our online seed catalog »Technical...
Chili Oil RecipeHere is a simple chili oil recipe that is sure to please your tastebuds! Make this chili oil with any fresh or dried hot peppers of your choosing! Traditional hot peppers like Cayenne and Thai Hot Peppers are great for this recipe, but you can also try habanero peppers, or try super hot peppers like the Carolina Reaper or a Trinidad Moruga Scorpion for a super fiery chili oil! You could also try Hatch Red Chiles in oil for a New Mexican twist. The possibilities are endless. Chili Oil Recipe ...
Salsa RecipesSalsas can be made hundreds of different ways. We like to use whatever we have on hand to make salsa, including everything we are growing in our garden – so don't worry if you don't have the exact ingredients for any of our favorite recipes below – make the recipe you're own! Salsa Recipes:Carolina Reaper Salsa Recipe »Trinidad Scorpion Salsa Recipe »Vinegar Pepper Sauce Recipe »Ghost Pepper Salsa Recipe »Orange Salsa Recipe » Pico de Gallo Recipe »Tomatillo Salsa Recipe »Hat...
Hottest Chilli in the World 2020The Carolina Reaper IS still the hottest chili in the world in 2022! And it was the hottest chilli in the world in 2020, too, it has worn the crown for many years – originally being achnowledged by Guinness World Records in 2013. There are lots of other chilli peppers out there like the Dragon's Breath Chile and Pepper X, but these varieties have not yet been tested formally by the Guinness World of Records, and they also don't yet appear to be stable strains (at least in our tests!) ...
Hottest Pepper 2020The Hottest Pepper in 2020 is the infamous Carolina Reaper! While a lot of other contenders have come onto the market in the past few years, the Reaper still carries the Guinness World Record crown for being the world's hottest pepper in 2020.Developed by pepper breeder Ed Currie in South Carolina, this wicked beast of a pepper is red with a gnarled, bumpy texture and a small pointed tail. Guinness World Records declared it the hottest chili pepper in the world in 2013, and it has held th...
Wholesale SeedsWholesale Seeds for Retailers Are you a local plant nursery, garden center, gift shop or local hardware store and you're looking for wholesale seeds for resale? Sandia Seed offers Wholesale Seeds for all of our 100+ pepper seeds from around the world, plus our favorite 44+ tomato seeds including lots of heirloom varieties from around the world, as well as some super easy-to-grow vegetable seeds. We specialize in customer favorites like the flavorful New Mexican Chile seeds like the Bi...
Jalapeño Popper DipJalapeño Popper Dip RecipeThis is an easy way to enjoy the delicous-ness of Jalapeno Poppers in dip form! A great treat for parties, and easy to make: INGREDIENTS1 block cream cheese, softened1/2 cup sour cream1 tsp. fresh garlic (or powder)3 jalapeños, minced1 1/2 cups cheddar, shredded1 1/2 cups Monterey Jack, shredded1 tsp. Cumin (optional)Fresh Cilantro (to garnish, optional)Kosher saltFreshly ground black pepper DIRECTIONS Preheat oven to 350º F. In a mixing bowl, stir together cream ...
Fermented vs Unfermented Hot SauceFermented vs Unfermented Hot Sauce:Which is better? We think both fermented hot sauce and unfermented hot sauce are delicious. But, if we had to choose one over the other, we'd pick fermented hot sauce. Why? Because fermented hot sauce has a more complex tangy flavor that you can only get by fermenting. It's like a recipe of time, the fermentation "cooks" up more flavor than you could ever get without it. Plus, it has probiotics (like yogurt or kombucha), so it is really good ...
Chilli Seeds for SaleSandia Seed offers a huge selection of chilli seeds for sale. We sell chilli seeds to gardeners and growers around the world. While we specialize in Hatch Chile seeds from New Mexico, we also carry chilli seeds from Trinidad, Mexico, Spain, India, Africa, you name it! If you like to grow chilli seeds in your garden, make sure to check out our huge range of chilli seeds including our amazing rare pepper seeds from around the world, or shop for our chilli seeds for sale by different seed collec...
New Year’s Resolutions for GardenersHere are some of our favorite Gardener Resolutions to aspire to this coming year! Gardener Resolutions: Build a Compost Bin (or a compost pile!) – Compost is natures FREE fertilizer and works better than anything you can buy. Read more about Peppers & Compost » Plant More Perennials– to feed the birds and the bees and beautify your landscape. What's great about perennials is that they come back bigger and better every year and they also provide some of the earliest blooms for bea...
Carolina Reaper Seeds - Best GerminationWe have our high-quality Carolina Reaper seeds for sale! Carolina Reaper peppers are the hottest peppers in the world. People love to grow them to use for hot sauce or Carolina Reaper Salsa. Great Germination:Our Carolina Reaper seeds have great germination, we have had numerous customers report that they have had nearly 100% germination of our Carolina Reaper seeds. Super hot pepper seeds are notoriously slow to sprout, the trick is to keep them warm (80-90˚ F), which ensures a much hi...
Seed Racks & Seed DisplaysAre you looking for a seed rack display for your nursery, garden shop or store? Sorry, we are no longer offering free seed rack displays due to the high shipping cost. The racks are optional, so if you have your own seed displays, you don't need to purchase a seed rack. But, if you want one to highlight our seeds, go ahead and add one to your cart when you are purchasing one of our pepper seed collections – you'll get 50% off the seeds. Due to their large size (even when folded flat)...
List of Peppers by Heat
Here is a list of all of our peppers from around the world based on their heat level, from sweet to super hot!October 2023 Update: The new OFFICIAL hottest pepper in 2023 is Pepper X, which just dehtroned the former champ, the Carolina Reaper. Read more about it »Find the perfect pepper with the just the right amount of heat from this list of over 100 peppers of the world! Click on the peppers below to read about each of them: List of Peppers by Heat Level: PEPPER SCOVILLES Bell C...
Hottest Pepper 2021
You got that right, the Hottest Pepper in 2021 is still the Carolina Reaper! The wicked Carolina Reaper still will likely hold the Guinness World Record crown again in 2021 for being the world's hottest pepper. Unless someone happens to invest in getting a pepper tested prior to the end of 2020, which we highly doubt in this age of Covid-19. The problem is that it is difficult and expensive to test peppers to get into the book of world records, so since the Reaper took the crown in 2013,...
Dragons Breath Plants
THERE BE DRAGONS! The Dragon's Breath Pepper is FINALLY HERE!**Sorry, in 2021/2022 we are not currently offering Dragon's Breath seeds due to the unreliability of the strain. Sorry, we just don't want you to grow something that doesn't grow true or consistently! In the meantime, grow some of our reigning champs of hottest peppers such as the hottest Carolina Reaper (It's true, the Carolina Reaper continues to be the official Worlds Hottest Pepper in 2021 going into 2022, ...
Dragon Peppers
GROW DRAGONS IN YOUR GARDEN! We're excited to be offering two new Dragon Pepper seeds for all you chileheads out there! These wicked hot beasts are new to our Peppers of the World collection, and are sure to make great hot sauces and salsas! These two new Dragon Peppers are now for sale*! The Komodo Dragon Pepper is super hot with a Scoville of 1,400,000 – which means it's WICKED HOT! This dragon is sure to please any spice-lover and it will make a great fermented hot sauce. ...
Types of Hot Peppers
There are a ton of different types of hot peppers! Sandia Seed is all about chile peppers, and we carry over 100 types of peppers from around the world. Try growing a new type of hot pepper this year! We add new varieties each season, so you can grow peppers of the world in your garden! Looking for mild or super spicy peppers or somewhere in-between?View our List of Peppers by Heat » View our full list of all the types of peppers we carry in one place on our online seed catalog »Technical...
Chili Oil Recipe
Here is a simple chili oil recipe that is sure to please your tastebuds! Make this chili oil with any fresh or dried hot peppers of your choosing! Traditional hot peppers like Cayenne and Thai Hot Peppers are great for this recipe, but you can also try habanero peppers, or try super hot peppers like the Carolina Reaper or a Trinidad Moruga Scorpion for a super fiery chili oil! You could also try Hatch Red Chiles in oil for a New Mexican twist. The possibilities are endless. Chili Oil Recipe ...
Salsa Recipes
Salsas can be made hundreds of different ways. We like to use whatever we have on hand to make salsa, including everything we are growing in our garden – so don't worry if you don't have the exact ingredients for any of our favorite recipes below – make the recipe you're own! Salsa Recipes:Carolina Reaper Salsa Recipe »Trinidad Scorpion Salsa Recipe »Vinegar Pepper Sauce Recipe »Ghost Pepper Salsa Recipe »Orange Salsa Recipe » Pico de Gallo Recipe »Tomatillo Salsa Recipe »Hat...
Hottest Chilli in the World 2020
The Carolina Reaper IS still the hottest chili in the world in 2022! And it was the hottest chilli in the world in 2020, too, it has worn the crown for many years – originally being achnowledged by Guinness World Records in 2013. There are lots of other chilli peppers out there like the Dragon's Breath Chile and Pepper X, but these varieties have not yet been tested formally by the Guinness World of Records, and they also don't yet appear to be stable strains (at least in our tests!) ...
Hottest Pepper 2020
The Hottest Pepper in 2020 is the infamous Carolina Reaper! While a lot of other contenders have come onto the market in the past few years, the Reaper still carries the Guinness World Record crown for being the world's hottest pepper in 2020.Developed by pepper breeder Ed Currie in South Carolina, this wicked beast of a pepper is red with a gnarled, bumpy texture and a small pointed tail. Guinness World Records declared it the hottest chili pepper in the world in 2013, and it has held th...
Wholesale Seeds
Wholesale Seeds for Retailers Are you a local plant nursery, garden center, gift shop or local hardware store and you're looking for wholesale seeds for resale? Sandia Seed offers Wholesale Seeds for all of our 100+ pepper seeds from around the world, plus our favorite 44+ tomato seeds including lots of heirloom varieties from around the world, as well as some super easy-to-grow vegetable seeds. We specialize in customer favorites like the flavorful New Mexican Chile seeds like the Bi...
Jalapeño Popper Dip
Jalapeño Popper Dip RecipeThis is an easy way to enjoy the delicous-ness of Jalapeno Poppers in dip form! A great treat for parties, and easy to make: INGREDIENTS1 block cream cheese, softened1/2 cup sour cream1 tsp. fresh garlic (or powder)3 jalapeños, minced1 1/2 cups cheddar, shredded1 1/2 cups Monterey Jack, shredded1 tsp. Cumin (optional)Fresh Cilantro (to garnish, optional)Kosher saltFreshly ground black pepper DIRECTIONS Preheat oven to 350º F. In a mixing bowl, stir together cream ...
Fermented vs Unfermented Hot Sauce
Fermented vs Unfermented Hot Sauce:Which is better? We think both fermented hot sauce and unfermented hot sauce are delicious. But, if we had to choose one over the other, we'd pick fermented hot sauce. Why? Because fermented hot sauce has a more complex tangy flavor that you can only get by fermenting. It's like a recipe of time, the fermentation "cooks" up more flavor than you could ever get without it. Plus, it has probiotics (like yogurt or kombucha), so it is really good ...
Chilli Seeds for Sale
Sandia Seed offers a huge selection of chilli seeds for sale. We sell chilli seeds to gardeners and growers around the world. While we specialize in Hatch Chile seeds from New Mexico, we also carry chilli seeds from Trinidad, Mexico, Spain, India, Africa, you name it! If you like to grow chilli seeds in your garden, make sure to check out our huge range of chilli seeds including our amazing rare pepper seeds from around the world, or shop for our chilli seeds for sale by different seed collec...
New Year’s Resolutions for Gardeners
Here are some of our favorite Gardener Resolutions to aspire to this coming year! Gardener Resolutions: Build a Compost Bin (or a compost pile!) – Compost is natures FREE fertilizer and works better than anything you can buy. Read more about Peppers & Compost » Plant More Perennials– to feed the birds and the bees and beautify your landscape. What's great about perennials is that they come back bigger and better every year and they also provide some of the earliest blooms for bea...
Carolina Reaper Seeds - Best Germination
We have our high-quality Carolina Reaper seeds for sale! Carolina Reaper peppers are the hottest peppers in the world. People love to grow them to use for hot sauce or Carolina Reaper Salsa. Great Germination:Our Carolina Reaper seeds have great germination, we have had numerous customers report that they have had nearly 100% germination of our Carolina Reaper seeds. Super hot pepper seeds are notoriously slow to sprout, the trick is to keep them warm (80-90˚ F), which ensures a much hi...
Seed Racks & Seed Displays
Are you looking for a seed rack display for your nursery, garden shop or store? Sorry, we are no longer offering free seed rack displays due to the high shipping cost. The racks are optional, so if you have your own seed displays, you don't need to purchase a seed rack. But, if you want one to highlight our seeds, go ahead and add one to your cart when you are purchasing one of our pepper seed collections – you'll get 50% off the seeds. Due to their large size (even when folded flat)...
