Growing PaprikaHere are some answers to a few common questions about growing Paprika: Can I grow my own paprika? Yes! It's easy to grow your own Paprika peppers to use in recipes. Paprika peppers grow in the same conditions as most peppers and vegetables, they like warm weather, full sun, and well-draining soil that's been amended with compost. Learn more about our top tips for growing peppers from seeds - all of these tips will help you grow productive Paprika plants! What is sweet Paprika? Papri...
Big Jim Pepper SeedsGrow your own Big Jim Chile! Sandia Seed offers the best selection of New Mexico chile varieties, including the deliciously huge Big Jim Legacy. Big Jim Pepper Seeds are easy to start, and grow into nice sized pepper plants with huge chile pods for roasting and enjoying. Big Jim Legacy is an all-around winner when it comes to green chile. It has incredible New Mexican chile flavor, thick flesh, and mild to medium heat. A favorite for chile rellenos. The 8-10“ pods are very large, making the...
White Spots on Peppers: SunscaldAre you finding peppers with white spots on the pods, where it looks like the skin is sunken in, bleached and papery? Some would say they look rotten. But, fear not! This is most likely just sunscald and the rest of the pepper is still edible. Yes, you can still eat peppers with sunscald!We typically just cut off the bad spots and eat the rest of the pepper! Sunscald is just cosmetic, and does not make the pepper un-edible. How to prevent sunscaldand white spots on Peppers: The reason peppe...
How much water does a pepper plant need per day?Pictured: The beautiful NuMex Easter Pepper in a pot. How much water does a pepper plant need? It depends on the conditions of course. But keep in mind, peppers do NOT like soggy soil, so make sure to let it dry out between watering. Do pepper plants need a lot of water? Peppers actually like to dry out a bit between watering. That said, during the longest hottest days of summer, especially in pots, that may be every day. With cooler weather and during the spring and fall you may only ne...
I have flowers on my pepper but no peppers!Do your pepper plants have flowers but no peppers? This could be for a variety of reasons: Hot or Cold Weather: Temperatures – Peppers can be fussy when it comes to temperatures, they don't like it too cold or too hot! Peppers fruit best during daily temperatures between 70-80 °F. (Peppers don't like temperatures below 60˚ F and won't likely produce much if too cold – except for these special cool-weather loving peppers). If it's getting into the 90˚ F temperatures, your pep...
Growing Banana PeppersGrowing Banana Peppers is easy – they are one of the fastest growing peppers you can grow, and are very productive plants. Our Banana Pepper Seeds germinate quickly and are a great pepper plant for short season climates because they produce so quickly. Banana Pepper plants start to harvest after just 75 days from being planted, so you'll be enjoying these bright gems faster than other peppers! Growing Banana Peppers from seed is a great way to grow a lot of plants on a budget so you can r...
Purple PeppersSandia Seed has a wide variety of purple peppers that you can grow easily from seed! Purple in the garden is always a welcome sight! And, when you use purple peppers in your salads and recipes, they really add some great flavor and color! Our favorite purple peppers include both sweet and hot peppers. To start, we'll introduce you to our purple hot peppers. Our Purple Bhut Jolokia Ghost Peppers start out in beautiful purple then ripen to white/pale green and eventually turn to a deep pur...
Hot Pepper Seeds: Helmet HeadIf you grow Hot Pepper Seeds, Super Hot Pepper Seeds, Sweet Pepper Seeds, or any chile seeds from around the world, you have likely have encountered “helmet heads” at some point. These are seeds that start to germinate but fail to break open the pepper seed shell, so they get stuck inside and have what we call a “helmet head.”Helmet heads in pepper seedlings are common when the humidity is low, and it also just happens sometimes to some seeds. To prevent helmet heads, you can increase humidi...
Pueblo Chile from ColoradoPueblo Chile Peppers from Colorado: Meet our latest two latest additions to our peppers of the world seed collection: The Pueblo Mosco Chile (shown above) and the Pueblo Giadone Chile. We're so excited about these delicious chiles from Colorado! Both of these chiles have different flavor from the New Mexican Hatch chile varieties, and they have more heat and tend to have thicker walls, making them very easy to roast. We love growing them alongside our Hatch patch so we can enjoy all the ...
Pueblo Chile SeedsDiscover Pueblo Chile Seeds from Colorado! We are excited to share two new Pueblo Chiles that we just added to our seed collection: the tasty Pueblo Mosco Chile (shown above) and the spicier sister, the Pueblo Giadone Chile. Both of these Pueblo Chiles have a different flavor from the New Mexican Hatch chile varieties, (some say they taste better than Hatch, but we think both Hatch chiles and Pueblo Chiles taste amazing, they're just different. It's like comparing jalapeños to serraño...
Prevent Damping OffMany gardeners experience issues with their seedlings mysteriously wilting, flopping over, and dying – most of the time this is caused by damping off, an invisible killer that is caused by pathogens that kill seedlings after they germinate. Damping off usually occurs in damp, cool, still-air conditions – and be easily prevented. When affected by damping off, the seedling will usually have a shriveled base or the stem will have lesions at the ground level, and it will flop over and die. Seed...
Pepper Plant CarePepper plant care is not all that complicated, you just have to know a few things: Keep the seeds warm when germinating, they like to be between 80-90˚ F for fastest sprouting. Movement: Once germinated, make sure pepper seedlings have good air circulation and movement. Yes, you can pet your pepper seedlings by brushing or "petting" the pepper plants with your hands. This is good for your indoor seedlings as it will stimulate them to grow thicker stems, and be stockier (less l...
Chilli StickersWe ship all of our seeds year-round. Every seed order comes with a free sticker! We're adding more stickers to our lineup so make sure to collect them all! Get a free sticker when you order any of our seeds! These fun stickers show off your love of chiles! We usually give out our little red chile sticker to customers that buy hot peppers about half the time and the other half get the watering can. Our tomato orders usually get a tomato sticker, and seed orders with Hatch chile seed...
Birds Eye Chilli SeedsLooking to grow Birds Eye Chilli Seeds?We offer Birds Eye Chilli seeds under the Tepin / Chiltepin name. These are also known by the name: Thai Birds Eye Chilli Pepper. Capsicum annuum is native to southern North America and northern South America. This variety is considered the "mother of all peppers" and also goes by chiltepin, chiltepe, and chile tepin, bird’s eye chilli, or simply bird peppers, as wild birds love to eat them! Yes, despite the spiciness of these peppers, birds aren...
Best Peppers for Hot SauceWe've picked out our favorite peppers for hot sauce that you can grow in your garden to make hot sauce! Find our favorite hot sauce recipes and make them your own with any of these hot peppers. You can use any hot pepper or combination of peppers to make hot sauce, so don't feel limited, experiment! The sky's the limit. You'll find that some you love some peppers even more than others, but it's fun to try them all. Hot sauce captures the essence of the flavor of hot pepper...
How to Preserve Peppers: 7+ Ways!When you have a glut of peppers, you want to save your harvest to enjoy in the future months to come. Here are our favorite 7+ ways to preserve peppers now: Roast Chile Peppers: Roast or grill until charred, chill, peel & de-seed, use some now and freeze some for later! Great for making green chile stew, for topping pizza, dips, in burritos, eggs, served over mashed potatoes, you name it! Try some of our green chile recipes » Cowboy Candy, shown above, before brine was poured in. Pi...
I'm going to grow these every year, they are HOT!! They make great poppers and salsa. Very productive, easy to grow, quick germination and fast growing plants. Thank you for the stellar seeds.
I planted several cultivars from wholesale seed. These were prolific. See all that RED (and green)?!? Looking forward to harvesting in a few days. Thank You Sandia Seed!
I pretty much use Sandia seeds exclusively! A few years ago I just happened to order your Jalapeño M. To me it's the perfect Jalapeño! Really nice size! Perfect heat for what we like! Wonderful flavor with a meatyness that's perfect for many different uses! I make my own Sriracha so I wait for them to turn red. They're one of my base peppers for my sauce! I praise them to all my personal friends and to members of groups that I belong to!
Serrano Hidalgo Seeds fromSandia Seed produce even in the HOT drought of central Illinois this year! I love adding a little Mexican kick to my salsa but also tossing these on the grill! They have great flavor and produce all summer long!
I had looked high & low, and searched the web with many word combinations ‘looking’ specifically for my favorite chili, the Dynamite xx Hot… so I could grow my own. The peppers were sold in Colorado at select places during roasting season, but you couldn’t buy seeds for them… anywhere!
Finally, as luck and persistence would have it, I discovered Sandia Seed Company.
Thank you Sandia! I planted them and had a great crop this year. I plan on growing them every year as well as trying some of their other seeds,
There's just something fun about growing a jalapeno that is light enough in color that some people think it's a banana pepper. LOL! I picked these just for color variety, and I'm very pleased that my plants have been loaded with them all season! We donated about 50 lbs of mixed peppers this year from our garden and I still had enough to freeze some and can more jars of recipes than we'll probably be able to use before next season. All my peppers were from Sandia Seed Company. I've never had such great pepper production before using these seeds!!
This spinach germinated well, and produced way more spinach than I'd initially expected. It grew really well, was slow to bolt in the summer, and has a really nice mild flavor for salads or steamed.
This was my first time growing these and I will definitely be growing them from now on. Great germination and very sturdy plants that have withstood some really high winds. Huge long peppers that are excellent green or red, very easy to peel skin.
Growing these in Florida, (Recent transplant of NM).
Lovely peppers. Took a couple weeks is all and wow! I have several budding; 2 large enough to nickname. They're still in their infancy, but I can tell they are going to be great! Love the seeds!
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.
Growing Paprika
Here are some answers to a few common questions about growing Paprika: Can I grow my own paprika? Yes! It's easy to grow your own Paprika peppers to use in recipes. Paprika peppers grow in the same conditions as most peppers and vegetables, they like warm weather, full sun, and well-draining soil that's been amended with compost. Learn more about our top tips for growing peppers from seeds - all of these tips will help you grow productive Paprika plants! What is sweet Paprika? Papri...
Big Jim Pepper Seeds
Grow your own Big Jim Chile! Sandia Seed offers the best selection of New Mexico chile varieties, including the deliciously huge Big Jim Legacy. Big Jim Pepper Seeds are easy to start, and grow into nice sized pepper plants with huge chile pods for roasting and enjoying. Big Jim Legacy is an all-around winner when it comes to green chile. It has incredible New Mexican chile flavor, thick flesh, and mild to medium heat. A favorite for chile rellenos. The 8-10“ pods are very large, making the...
White Spots on Peppers: Sunscald
Are you finding peppers with white spots on the pods, where it looks like the skin is sunken in, bleached and papery? Some would say they look rotten. But, fear not! This is most likely just sunscald and the rest of the pepper is still edible. Yes, you can still eat peppers with sunscald!We typically just cut off the bad spots and eat the rest of the pepper! Sunscald is just cosmetic, and does not make the pepper un-edible. How to prevent sunscaldand white spots on Peppers: The reason peppe...
How much water does a pepper plant need per day?
Pictured: The beautiful NuMex Easter Pepper in a pot. How much water does a pepper plant need? It depends on the conditions of course. But keep in mind, peppers do NOT like soggy soil, so make sure to let it dry out between watering. Do pepper plants need a lot of water? Peppers actually like to dry out a bit between watering. That said, during the longest hottest days of summer, especially in pots, that may be every day. With cooler weather and during the spring and fall you may only ne...
I have flowers on my pepper but no peppers!
Do your pepper plants have flowers but no peppers? This could be for a variety of reasons: Hot or Cold Weather: Temperatures – Peppers can be fussy when it comes to temperatures, they don't like it too cold or too hot! Peppers fruit best during daily temperatures between 70-80 °F. (Peppers don't like temperatures below 60˚ F and won't likely produce much if too cold – except for these special cool-weather loving peppers). If it's getting into the 90˚ F temperatures, your pep...
Growing Banana Peppers
Growing Banana Peppers is easy – they are one of the fastest growing peppers you can grow, and are very productive plants. Our Banana Pepper Seeds germinate quickly and are a great pepper plant for short season climates because they produce so quickly. Banana Pepper plants start to harvest after just 75 days from being planted, so you'll be enjoying these bright gems faster than other peppers! Growing Banana Peppers from seed is a great way to grow a lot of plants on a budget so you can r...
Purple Peppers
Sandia Seed has a wide variety of purple peppers that you can grow easily from seed! Purple in the garden is always a welcome sight! And, when you use purple peppers in your salads and recipes, they really add some great flavor and color! Our favorite purple peppers include both sweet and hot peppers. To start, we'll introduce you to our purple hot peppers. Our Purple Bhut Jolokia Ghost Peppers start out in beautiful purple then ripen to white/pale green and eventually turn to a deep pur...
Hot Pepper Seeds: Helmet Head
If you grow Hot Pepper Seeds, Super Hot Pepper Seeds, Sweet Pepper Seeds, or any chile seeds from around the world, you have likely have encountered “helmet heads” at some point. These are seeds that start to germinate but fail to break open the pepper seed shell, so they get stuck inside and have what we call a “helmet head.”Helmet heads in pepper seedlings are common when the humidity is low, and it also just happens sometimes to some seeds. To prevent helmet heads, you can increase humidi...
Pueblo Chile from Colorado
Pueblo Chile Peppers from Colorado: Meet our latest two latest additions to our peppers of the world seed collection: The Pueblo Mosco Chile (shown above) and the Pueblo Giadone Chile. We're so excited about these delicious chiles from Colorado! Both of these chiles have different flavor from the New Mexican Hatch chile varieties, and they have more heat and tend to have thicker walls, making them very easy to roast. We love growing them alongside our Hatch patch so we can enjoy all the ...
Pueblo Chile Seeds
Discover Pueblo Chile Seeds from Colorado! We are excited to share two new Pueblo Chiles that we just added to our seed collection: the tasty Pueblo Mosco Chile (shown above) and the spicier sister, the Pueblo Giadone Chile. Both of these Pueblo Chiles have a different flavor from the New Mexican Hatch chile varieties, (some say they taste better than Hatch, but we think both Hatch chiles and Pueblo Chiles taste amazing, they're just different. It's like comparing jalapeños to serraño...
Prevent Damping Off
Many gardeners experience issues with their seedlings mysteriously wilting, flopping over, and dying – most of the time this is caused by damping off, an invisible killer that is caused by pathogens that kill seedlings after they germinate. Damping off usually occurs in damp, cool, still-air conditions – and be easily prevented. When affected by damping off, the seedling will usually have a shriveled base or the stem will have lesions at the ground level, and it will flop over and die. Seed...
Pepper Plant Care
Pepper plant care is not all that complicated, you just have to know a few things: Keep the seeds warm when germinating, they like to be between 80-90˚ F for fastest sprouting. Movement: Once germinated, make sure pepper seedlings have good air circulation and movement. Yes, you can pet your pepper seedlings by brushing or "petting" the pepper plants with your hands. This is good for your indoor seedlings as it will stimulate them to grow thicker stems, and be stockier (less l...
Chilli Stickers
We ship all of our seeds year-round. Every seed order comes with a free sticker! We're adding more stickers to our lineup so make sure to collect them all! Get a free sticker when you order any of our seeds! These fun stickers show off your love of chiles! We usually give out our little red chile sticker to customers that buy hot peppers about half the time and the other half get the watering can. Our tomato orders usually get a tomato sticker, and seed orders with Hatch chile seed...
Birds Eye Chilli Seeds
Looking to grow Birds Eye Chilli Seeds?We offer Birds Eye Chilli seeds under the Tepin / Chiltepin name. These are also known by the name: Thai Birds Eye Chilli Pepper. Capsicum annuum is native to southern North America and northern South America. This variety is considered the "mother of all peppers" and also goes by chiltepin, chiltepe, and chile tepin, bird’s eye chilli, or simply bird peppers, as wild birds love to eat them! Yes, despite the spiciness of these peppers, birds aren...
Best Peppers for Hot Sauce
We've picked out our favorite peppers for hot sauce that you can grow in your garden to make hot sauce! Find our favorite hot sauce recipes and make them your own with any of these hot peppers. You can use any hot pepper or combination of peppers to make hot sauce, so don't feel limited, experiment! The sky's the limit. You'll find that some you love some peppers even more than others, but it's fun to try them all. Hot sauce captures the essence of the flavor of hot pepper...
How to Preserve Peppers: 7+ Ways!
When you have a glut of peppers, you want to save your harvest to enjoy in the future months to come. Here are our favorite 7+ ways to preserve peppers now: Roast Chile Peppers: Roast or grill until charred, chill, peel & de-seed, use some now and freeze some for later! Great for making green chile stew, for topping pizza, dips, in burritos, eggs, served over mashed potatoes, you name it! Try some of our green chile recipes » Cowboy Candy, shown above, before brine was poured in. Pi...
