Aji Amarillo Seeds - Essential Peruvian Chile - Fruity Flavor

Name: Aji Amarillo Seeds - Essential Peruvian Chile - Fruity Taste
Brand: Sandia Seed Company
SKU: 705641-993833
Price: 3.99 USD
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Grow Your Own Peruvian Heat with Aji Amarillo Seeds

Bring the vibrant flavors of Peru to your garden with Aji Amarillo Seeds, the cornerstone of authentic Peruvian cuisine. Known for its fruity mango-like taste and tropical aroma, this chile pepper is a must-have for culinary enthusiasts and home gardeners alike.

Why Choose Aji Amarillo Seeds?

As the most frequently used chile in Peru, Aji Amarillo adds a unique depth to dishes like Papa a la Huancaína and Ají de Gallina. Its distinctive fruity flavor packs a punch with a Scoville heat rating of 30,000 - 50,000, making it perfect for those who love intense, flavorful heat.

Key Features:

Fruity & Tropical Flavor: Enjoy a delicious mango-like taste with a captivating aroma.
Very Hot Heat Level: Ideal for spice lovers seeking authentic Peruvian heat.
Abundant Harvest: Each plant grows 4-5' tall, producing 5-6" peppers that mature to a deep yellowish-orange.
Heirloom Seeds: High-quality, non-GMO seeds for a healthy, organic garden.

Growing Tips:

Start your Aji Amarillo Seeds indoors 8 weeks before warm weather. Plant in sterile media, cover 1/4" deep, and maintain 85°F bottom heat with bright light. Keep the soil moist, and expect germination in 7-21 days. Transplant seedlings after 6 true leaves appear, spacing them 30" apart or in 5-gallon containers.

Harvest when peppers turn yellowish-orange for the best flavor and heat. Whether you're a seasoned gardener or a culinary adventurer, these seeds will bring a taste of Peru to your table.

Ready to spice up your garden? Plant Aji Amarillo Seeds today and enjoy the fiery, fruity flavors of Peru!

Packet contains: 10 seeds
Heat Level: Very Hot
SHU: 30,000 – 50,000
Maturity: 85 days after transplant
Pod Size: 5-6 in. Plant Size: 5 ft.
Origin: Peru
Capsicum baccatum
Heirloom and Open-Pollinated
Untreated and Non-GMO

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Great Fruity Heat

The pepper seeds germinated 9/10 and took a while to grow but once they were planted outside the plants grew well and over the summer produced a lot of peppers. I made sauce with the peppers.

Aji amarillo

Purchased, planted, cared for daily, but never got one pepper on huge 5foot plant?????

Sounds like you have a green thumb! Be patient, Aji's take their sweet ol' time before they start to go into production mode. If the plant is large, stop fertilizing with any heavy-nitrogen fertilizers, which will cause them to keep growing more leaves but not pods. You should start seeing blooms and pods thereafter! Let us know.

Solid producer late into season zone 6

Really enjoyed this guy pickled, too. Very fruity undertones and hot!

Fruit falls off over 90.

Can't handle the Arkansas heat. The seeds germinated well. The bush grew big and was loaded with peppers but they would fall off anytime we got a couple of hot days. Once the weather cooled off there wasn't enough time to ripen before the frost came. Maybe with some shade or a milder climate it could work?
The ONE pepper that ripened and didn't fall off for some reason had an interesting flavor. It kind of tasted and smelled like a pepper with tropical fruit, like a papaya or mango or something, crisp, fruity, refreshing, picante.

Good so far

Good germination (about 95%) and they seem to be doing well. They're starting to get their true leaves and growing on despite temperature swings. They've also been pretty hardy with being on a heat mat, cycling through dry to moist soil conditions. Thanks Sandia Seed Co

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Finally, prolific harvest!

See my original review on July 22. I am revising and increasing my rating. After my post, in early August here in the northeast, my Aji Amarillo plants exploded with fruit. Literally hundreds of peppers on 8 plants (fyi, plants grew to 7+ feet tall). It was indicated that this pepper plant takes a long time to mature and produce peppers, so I guess I wasn't patient enough. I'll start them a month earlier, cut back on nitrogen early, so that I might get some to actually ripen on the vine (almost all of them I harvested still green before frost). Delicious pepper and the perfect amount of heat.

Aji amarillo and Tepin

Ordered these two seeds based on information I read. Aji Amarillo used in Peruvian cooking. Spicy hot but not killer hot with a hint of fruity flavour.
Found Tepin interesting and a challenge. Small almost peppercorn size with a punch eaten raw. Supposed to be hard to be grow.
Planted both seeds and both grew well. Took the Aji Amarillo indoors on a sunny window and left the Tepin in a green house 0C temperature zone 5.
Still have both plants growing on its second year.

Zone 5 - peppers didn’t ripen

Had high hopes - started indoors in Feb, only had one seed from the packet germinate. Put into raised bed, plant grew exceptionally well but took forever to produce a pepper. Eventually the plant was full of peppers, but not a single one reached maturity (and we had a really warm fall). Very disappointing. Green peppers taste ok, but absolutely no heat.

Sorry to hear that, Aji Amarillos tend to often take a long time to ripen we've found, and some years are better than others, probably depending on the weather. In a Denver garden this year, one of our other customers had a similar problem, there were a ton of peppers but they just didn't ripen in time for the first frost. Apparently the summer was very hot, so the peppers were delayed by over 90˚ F weather for most of June, July and August. If you're looking for faster ripening peppers for Zone 5 that are more likely to ripen because their days to harvest is less, check out our Fastest Growing Peppers category: https://www.sandiaseed.com/collections/fastest-growing-peppers

Thanks for your feedback! Happy growing!

Great lemon flavor!

Peppers have a lovely flavor and a great following at our garden center. Quite similar to lemon drop, but different enough that we grow and sell both. Both great peppers! Many of the employees grow both and love them including myself .In the northeast they produce late but you still get a decent amount. Plants get quite big and beautiful.Definitely a winner!