Big Jim Legacy Pepper Seeds - Flavor & Heat - A True New Mexico Chile

Name: Big Jim Legacy Pepper Seeds - Flavor & Heat - a True New Mexico Chile
Brand: Sandia Seed Company
SKU: 661799-937474
Price: 2.49 USD
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Big Jim Legacy Pepper Seeds – The Ultimate New Mexican Chile Experience

Grow the legendary Big Jim Legacy Pepper Seeds and savor the rich, authentic flavor of New Mexico's finest green chile. Renowned for its thick, meaty pods and medium heat, this variety is a must-have for chile lovers and home gardeners alike. Perfect for chile rellenos, roasting, or crafting delicious red enchilada sauce, Big Jim Legacy delivers an abundant harvest of 8-10" pods with incredible taste and aroma.

Why Choose Big Jim Legacy Pepper Seeds?

These seeds are straight from New Mexico chile farmers, ensuring premium quality and authentic flavor. The plants grow to 30" tall, producing high yields of versatile peppers that are easy to peel and packed with thick flesh. Whether you prefer them green for stuffing or dried red for sauces, Big Jim Legacy peppers are a kitchen staple.

Key Features:

Flavor & Heat: Medium heat with rich, smoky New Mexican chile flavor
Growth: Produces abundant yields of large pods on tall plants
Versatility: Ideal for roasting, stuffing, or drying for red chile sauce
Authentic: Heirloom seed direct from New Mexico chile farmers

Growing Tips:

Start seeds indoors 8 weeks before warm weather. Plant in sterile media, cover 1/4" deep, and maintain 85°F soil temperature. Keep moist with bright light for best germination (7-21 days). Transplant when seedlings have 6 true leaves, spacing 30" apart in rich soil or 5-gallon containers. For even bigger harvests, pinch off early blooms to encourage more chile production later.

Experience the taste of New Mexico with every bite – order your Big Jim Legacy Pepper Seeds today and grow your own authentic green chile harvest!

Each packet contains 30 seeds
Heat Level: Medium
SHU: 2,000-4,000
Maturity: 78 days after transplant
Pod Size: 8-10 in. Plant Size: 3 ft.
Origin: New Mexico
Capsicum annuum
Heirloom and Open-Pollinated
Untreated and Non-GMO

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Prolific pepper

Plants each produced dozens of beautiful peppers. Still going strong in October in Virginia

Big Jims

Excellent peppers, large and meaty. Easy to grow from your seeds.

Wow! BIG JIM PEPPERS

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!

Big Jim...great roasting Chilis

I grow chilis for seed from Sandia in Wichita Kansas. They take longer for harvesting but make great roasting Chilis. I call them WichiHatch Chilis.

Great peppers

Grow really fast

Nice Flavor

I planted both Big Jim Legacy and Big Jim Medium. Both were really mild, with heat if I ate the membrane and the seeds. Compared to the Big Jim peppers we purchased from Wegmans, these were significantly more mild. We sprouted them inside under a grow light and on a heat pad; they did very well. We moved them to our deck for the rest of the season. They grew very slowly (it was a cold, wet spring) and produced few buds until August/September, when they really took off! Right now we are anticipating a nice crop until the first frost. We are at 2650 feet elevation midway along Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. No dishes made yet as we are waiting until we harvest enough peppers for canned peppers. Anyway, next year I will work with different soil configurations and more carefully document the results in order to determine the optimum growing setup.

Not the same

These taste good, but are smaller than the ones I ordered from NuMex (CPI), and very susceptible to mites and fungal issues. They also don't like the heat, ironically.

Hatch peppers in British Columbia?! Who knew it was possible.

My husband is a born and raised Albuquerquian who moved to Vancouver , BC. Since New Mexican products are hard to find north of the border, I'm so glad I'm able to grow Big Jim's for him and our neighborhood smells divine come roasting season.

Big Jim Chiles

Big Chiles with just enough heat to add to green enchilada's. The flavor after roasting is fantastic. Since green chile roasting is not a local thing in Eastern Washington we us a weed burner. The smell of roasting peppers is heavenly.

Great All Around Chile

I've been growing green chiles for sometime, but have found Big Jim Legacy to be one of my favorites. In my garden, the plants are vigorous produce until frost. Germination is always great and I've had no problems with any of the seeds I have purchased from Sandia Seed.