Growing Peppers from SeedHere are some of our top tips for growing peppers from seed: Keep seeds warm & moist with bright light: Pepper seeds are notoriously slow at germination, and they need to be kept moist and warm, around 80˚ - 90˚ F, for best success. This is especially true of super hot pepper seeds, which can take anywhere from 7-22 days to germinate (some people have reported that some seeds take over 40 days. Where to Grow Peppers from Seed: Chile peppers grow best in the heat, with a relativel...
Ghost Pepper Salsa RecipeIf you are a salsa connoisseur, then you have to try this amazing Ghost Pepper Salsa Recipe. You can use any of our ghost peppers for this recipe, this salsa recipe would even be fun to make with several different colors of Ghost Peppers so that you can taste the subtle differences between each one. See our other colors that we carry in our Ghost Pepper Seeds collection. For example, the Chocolate Bhut Jolokia Ghost Pepper is just as evil as Red Bhut Jolokia Ghost Pepper, but it is sweeter –...
How to Grow Chile Peppers in ColoradoHow to grow Chile Peppers in Colorado It's easy to grow Hatch Green Chile, Hot Peppers or Sweet Peppers in Colorado. Well, that is, unless you live on the top of a fourteener! All of our chile peppers, hot peppers and sweet peppers grow great in Colorado's hot and arid climate, providing that you start them early, and make sure they get enough water (but not too much water) throughout their growing season. The plains of Colorado have similar growing conditions to New Mexico, and so g...
Carolina Reaper Salt RecipeCarolina Reaper Salt Recipe This really easy Carolina Reaper Salt Recipe is delicious on everything! Just 2 Ingredients: 1 cup coarse sea salt 2 tablespoons crushed dried Carolina Reaper peppers – you can also use a blend of any homegrown hot peppers including Tombstone Ghost Peppers, Trinidad Scorpions, or less hot but still spicy Goat Horn Peppers, Cayenne Ring of Fire Peppers, Thai Hot peppers, or you can even make a white spicy salt blend with white hot peppers like the White Peruvi...
Chili MemeHere are some of our favorite Chili Memes about Hatch Chiles, Hot Peppers and Chileheads: Chili Meme:This picture just stopped a New Mexican from scrolling. Green Chile works every time. One of the best parts of Fall is roasted chile! Especially if homegrown, that sizzle is soooo satisfying and the aroma... heavenly. Garden Chile Meme: You haven’t experienced true heart break until you've been thinking all day about leftover green chile enchiladas ... and then you co...
Sichuan Chile Oil RecipeDo you make Chile Oil from your homegrown hot peppers or super hot peppers? This is a great way to use up the dried solids that you strain from the sauce... it's delicious! You can also make it with dried pepper flakes from any hot peppers. We think it's really good with our Goat Horn peppers, Thai Hot Peppers, or Chile de Arbol peppers, but it also tastes great with any hot pepper! Sichuan Chile Oil Recipe 3+ cups peanut oil4-5 cups solids from strained fermented hot sauce (or you ...
Bulk SeedsLooking for bulk chile seeds and bulk hot pepper seeds? We sell Bulk Carolina Reaper seeds, Bulk Chimayo Chile seeds, Bulk Big Jim Green Chile seeds, bulk Ghost Pepper seeds and many other popular pepper seeds. Check out our Bulk Seeds page » Bulk Seeds are good for farms of all sizes, or gardeners or commercial growers who plant large fields of peppers. We carry a lot of New Mexico varieties, and our seeds grow well around the world! Peppers are easy to grow, check out our pepper growi...
Hot Sauce CompetitionDo you make the best BBQ hot sauce, WING sauce, PEPPER Jam, SALSA, or Spicy CONDIMENT around? Do you know about hot sauce competitions coming up? Tell us about your hot sauce or competition! We love tasting new hot sauces and recipes. Afterall, one of the best reasons to grow peppers is to make homemade hot sauces, right? Be sure to check out all of our hot sauce recipes »
How to Grow Carolina ReaperGrowing the Carolina Reaper is almost as easy as most other peppers and vegetables, although they do like a warm germination period, and need a long growing season and lots of sun to grow the hottest pods in the world. The Carolina Reaper is a Capsicum chinense strain, and these strains do require a great deal of attention during the germination process. Moisture and a constant and consistent heat range must be maintained for best germination – and even with perfect conditions, every seed ...
Habanero & Green Tomato Salsa RecipeCanned Habanero & Green Tomato Salsa /Sauce Recipe This is a delicious way to use up all your unripe, green tomatoes before the first frost of winter. Don't throw them away! This makes for a great sauce for enchiladas, casseroles and burritos! 10-20+ chopped cored green tomatoes (any size, type, or feel free to use a mix of green tomatoes, just use all the green ones that you have!) 10-20+ Habañeros, Jalapeños or any hot peppers or even super hot peppers (to taste, add a lo...
Seed RackSeed Racks from Sandia Seed Are you a garden center or hardware store and you want to sell seeds in your shop? We love working with small businesses who want to sell hot peppers and Hatch chile seeds. Stores in New Mexico especially love selling our Hatch chile varieties so that their customers can grow their own Hatch chiles in their gardens. Plus, if anyone has had New Mexican chile and live anywhere else in the world, these Hatch seeds are a rare sight, so Chile-lovers and Chileheads will ...
Carolina Reaper Pepper Seeds for SaleAre you looking for Carolina Reaper Pepper seeds for sale? The Carolina Reaper pepper is still the champion for being the hottest pepper in the world, according to Guinness World Records. There have been rumors of other peppers contending for being the hottest pepper, including the Dragon's Breath pepper and Pepper X, but these have NOT yet received any official awards for being hotter than the Reaper. We have been trying to grow out smoe Dragon's Breath pepper seeds, however, we are ...
What I did with one million Jalapeño peppersThere were 1 million jalapeños growing in my garden and I did not know what to do with them. Well, it was almost 50 pounds of fresh jalapeños, but who’s counting? This past spring someone told me jalapeño peppers were easy to grow, and I didn’t believe them. Guess what? They are very easy to grow! I grew 6 different kinds of Jalapeño peppers from the Sandia Seed. They ranged in heat from edible Jalapeño Mucho Nacho, Jalapeño M, NuMex Jalmundo, to fire hot Early Jalapeño, and ranged in color f...
Is the Carolina Reaper the Hottest Pepper in the World?It was. Until August 2023, the Carolina Reaper was the Hottest Pepper in the World. But, Pepper X recently won the crown in August 2023 – averaging at 2.69 million SHU in Winthrop University's past five years of tests. Now, Pepper X is now the champion of hot peppers according to Guinness World Records. There have been other peppers rumoured to be hotter than the Reaper, but none have been proven or have been awarded the Guinness World Record prize until August 2023. Among these peppers ...
Bulk Seed StoreIf you are looking for a Bulk Seed Store, Sandia Seed offers a large variety of New Mexican Chiles such as bulk Hatch Chile seeds, plus we sell bulk Hot Pepper seeds and Sweet Pepper Seeds. View our Bulk Seeds » We carry a great selection of seeds in our bulk seed store, such as the famous best-selling Bulk Carolina Reaper Seeds (the hottest pepper in the world), Bulk Trinidad Scorpion Seeds (another super hot pepper), or popular New Mexican chile varieties such as Hatch Green Medium C...
How Deep to Plant Pepper Seeds?If you have bought some of our chile pepper seeds, you may be wondering how deep to plant the pepper seeds – and here's the answer: For Chile Pepper seeds, plant each seed a quarter of an inch deep or less. Place one pepper seed into each shallow hole and cover gently with soil. Keep the seeds evenly moist and warm (80-90˚ F) for best and fastest germination, and remember, pepper seeds are often notoriously slow to germinate – they can take anywhere from 7 to 21 days to sprout. Some...
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 Peppers from Seed
Here are some of our top tips for growing peppers from seed: Keep seeds warm & moist with bright light: Pepper seeds are notoriously slow at germination, and they need to be kept moist and warm, around 80˚ - 90˚ F, for best success. This is especially true of super hot pepper seeds, which can take anywhere from 7-22 days to germinate (some people have reported that some seeds take over 40 days. Where to Grow Peppers from Seed: Chile peppers grow best in the heat, with a relativel...
Ghost Pepper Salsa Recipe
If you are a salsa connoisseur, then you have to try this amazing Ghost Pepper Salsa Recipe. You can use any of our ghost peppers for this recipe, this salsa recipe would even be fun to make with several different colors of Ghost Peppers so that you can taste the subtle differences between each one. See our other colors that we carry in our Ghost Pepper Seeds collection. For example, the Chocolate Bhut Jolokia Ghost Pepper is just as evil as Red Bhut Jolokia Ghost Pepper, but it is sweeter –...
How to Grow Chile Peppers in Colorado
How to grow Chile Peppers in Colorado It's easy to grow Hatch Green Chile, Hot Peppers or Sweet Peppers in Colorado. Well, that is, unless you live on the top of a fourteener! All of our chile peppers, hot peppers and sweet peppers grow great in Colorado's hot and arid climate, providing that you start them early, and make sure they get enough water (but not too much water) throughout their growing season. The plains of Colorado have similar growing conditions to New Mexico, and so g...
Carolina Reaper Salt Recipe
Carolina Reaper Salt Recipe This really easy Carolina Reaper Salt Recipe is delicious on everything! Just 2 Ingredients: 1 cup coarse sea salt 2 tablespoons crushed dried Carolina Reaper peppers – you can also use a blend of any homegrown hot peppers including Tombstone Ghost Peppers, Trinidad Scorpions, or less hot but still spicy Goat Horn Peppers, Cayenne Ring of Fire Peppers, Thai Hot peppers, or you can even make a white spicy salt blend with white hot peppers like the White Peruvi...
Chili Meme
Here are some of our favorite Chili Memes about Hatch Chiles, Hot Peppers and Chileheads: Chili Meme:This picture just stopped a New Mexican from scrolling. Green Chile works every time. One of the best parts of Fall is roasted chile! Especially if homegrown, that sizzle is soooo satisfying and the aroma... heavenly. Garden Chile Meme: You haven’t experienced true heart break until you've been thinking all day about leftover green chile enchiladas ... and then you co...
Sichuan Chile Oil Recipe
Do you make Chile Oil from your homegrown hot peppers or super hot peppers? This is a great way to use up the dried solids that you strain from the sauce... it's delicious! You can also make it with dried pepper flakes from any hot peppers. We think it's really good with our Goat Horn peppers, Thai Hot Peppers, or Chile de Arbol peppers, but it also tastes great with any hot pepper! Sichuan Chile Oil Recipe 3+ cups peanut oil4-5 cups solids from strained fermented hot sauce (or you ...
Bulk Seeds
Looking for bulk chile seeds and bulk hot pepper seeds? We sell Bulk Carolina Reaper seeds, Bulk Chimayo Chile seeds, Bulk Big Jim Green Chile seeds, bulk Ghost Pepper seeds and many other popular pepper seeds. Check out our Bulk Seeds page » Bulk Seeds are good for farms of all sizes, or gardeners or commercial growers who plant large fields of peppers. We carry a lot of New Mexico varieties, and our seeds grow well around the world! Peppers are easy to grow, check out our pepper growi...
Hot Sauce Competition
Do you make the best BBQ hot sauce, WING sauce, PEPPER Jam, SALSA, or Spicy CONDIMENT around? Do you know about hot sauce competitions coming up? Tell us about your hot sauce or competition! We love tasting new hot sauces and recipes. Afterall, one of the best reasons to grow peppers is to make homemade hot sauces, right? Be sure to check out all of our hot sauce recipes »
How to Grow Carolina Reaper
Growing the Carolina Reaper is almost as easy as most other peppers and vegetables, although they do like a warm germination period, and need a long growing season and lots of sun to grow the hottest pods in the world. The Carolina Reaper is a Capsicum chinense strain, and these strains do require a great deal of attention during the germination process. Moisture and a constant and consistent heat range must be maintained for best germination – and even with perfect conditions, every seed ...
Habanero & Green Tomato Salsa Recipe
Canned Habanero & Green Tomato Salsa /Sauce Recipe This is a delicious way to use up all your unripe, green tomatoes before the first frost of winter. Don't throw them away! This makes for a great sauce for enchiladas, casseroles and burritos! 10-20+ chopped cored green tomatoes (any size, type, or feel free to use a mix of green tomatoes, just use all the green ones that you have!) 10-20+ Habañeros, Jalapeños or any hot peppers or even super hot peppers (to taste, add a lo...
Seed Rack
Seed Racks from Sandia Seed Are you a garden center or hardware store and you want to sell seeds in your shop? We love working with small businesses who want to sell hot peppers and Hatch chile seeds. Stores in New Mexico especially love selling our Hatch chile varieties so that their customers can grow their own Hatch chiles in their gardens. Plus, if anyone has had New Mexican chile and live anywhere else in the world, these Hatch seeds are a rare sight, so Chile-lovers and Chileheads will ...
Carolina Reaper Pepper Seeds for Sale
Are you looking for Carolina Reaper Pepper seeds for sale? The Carolina Reaper pepper is still the champion for being the hottest pepper in the world, according to Guinness World Records. There have been rumors of other peppers contending for being the hottest pepper, including the Dragon's Breath pepper and Pepper X, but these have NOT yet received any official awards for being hotter than the Reaper. We have been trying to grow out smoe Dragon's Breath pepper seeds, however, we are ...
What I did with one million Jalapeño peppers
There were 1 million jalapeños growing in my garden and I did not know what to do with them. Well, it was almost 50 pounds of fresh jalapeños, but who’s counting? This past spring someone told me jalapeño peppers were easy to grow, and I didn’t believe them. Guess what? They are very easy to grow! I grew 6 different kinds of Jalapeño peppers from the Sandia Seed. They ranged in heat from edible Jalapeño Mucho Nacho, Jalapeño M, NuMex Jalmundo, to fire hot Early Jalapeño, and ranged in color f...
Is the Carolina Reaper the Hottest Pepper in the World?
It was. Until August 2023, the Carolina Reaper was the Hottest Pepper in the World. But, Pepper X recently won the crown in August 2023 – averaging at 2.69 million SHU in Winthrop University's past five years of tests. Now, Pepper X is now the champion of hot peppers according to Guinness World Records. There have been other peppers rumoured to be hotter than the Reaper, but none have been proven or have been awarded the Guinness World Record prize until August 2023. Among these peppers ...
Bulk Seed Store
If you are looking for a Bulk Seed Store, Sandia Seed offers a large variety of New Mexican Chiles such as bulk Hatch Chile seeds, plus we sell bulk Hot Pepper seeds and Sweet Pepper Seeds. View our Bulk Seeds » We carry a great selection of seeds in our bulk seed store, such as the famous best-selling Bulk Carolina Reaper Seeds (the hottest pepper in the world), Bulk Trinidad Scorpion Seeds (another super hot pepper), or popular New Mexican chile varieties such as Hatch Green Medium C...
How Deep to Plant Pepper Seeds?
If you have bought some of our chile pepper seeds, you may be wondering how deep to plant the pepper seeds – and here's the answer: For Chile Pepper seeds, plant each seed a quarter of an inch deep or less. Place one pepper seed into each shallow hole and cover gently with soil. Keep the seeds evenly moist and warm (80-90˚ F) for best and fastest germination, and remember, pepper seeds are often notoriously slow to germinate – they can take anywhere from 7 to 21 days to sprout. Some...
