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Pasilla Bajio/Chilaca Chile Seeds - Mild Flavor - Great for Mexican Sauces
Pasilla Bajio/Chilaca Chile Seeds - Mild Flavor - Great for Mexican Sauces
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Pasilla Bajio/Chilaca Chile Seeds - Mild Flavor, Rich Tradition
Elevate your Mexican cuisine with Pasilla Bajio/Chilaca Chile Seeds, the secret behind authentic mole sauces and salsas. These heirloom seeds produce versatile peppers that transform from fresh, sweet chilacas to smoky, raisin-like pasillas when dried—a true culinary chameleon for your garden and kitchen.
Why Grow Pasilla Bajio/Chilaca Peppers?
Dual-Purpose Delight: Enjoy them fresh as 8-10" dark green chilacas for enchilada sauces, or dry them into pasillas for rich, complex moles. Their mild heat (1,000-2,000 Scoville) and sweet-to-smoky flavor profile make them a staple in Mexican cooking.
Heirloom Heritage: Open-pollinated and non-GMO, these tall 30" plants yield abundant narrow peppers that mature from dark green to brown-just like generations of Mexican growers have cultivated.
Grow Your Own Flavor
Perfect for gardeners of all levels! Start seeds indoors 8 weeks before warm weather (85°F soil temp ensures germination in 7-21 days). Transplant to sunny garden beds or 5-gallon containers, spacing 30" apart. Harvest when peppers darken for peak flavor.
Packet contains: 10 premium seeds ready to bring authentic Mexican heat to your table.
"Little raisins" with big flavor-sow your pasilla passion today!
- Each packet contains 10 seeds
- Heat Level: Mild
- SHU: 1,000-2,000
- Maturity: 85 days after transplant
- Pod Size: 8-10 in. Plant Size: 30 in.
- Origin: Mexico
- Capsicum annuum
- Heirloom - Open-Pollinated
- Untreated and Non-GMO
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Only gave 3 stars as this will be 1st time ive used this variety. These seed will be for this years 2025 crop. Am hopeing they perform well and will review this fall to verify thier success.
Pasilla Bajio / Chilaca Chile Seeds
Pasilla Bajio / Chilaca Chile Seeds
Pasilla are very flavorful peppers – easy to dry and very productive plants. We like crushing the dried chiles into soups and sauces, they add so much flavor. Highly recommend, I grow them every year. Your seeds are great.
1st year trying these Chile Seeds. Seeded 4 cells of these Chile's, Shared 2 and planted 2 in our garden. Plants reached 36"+ in height with heavy yields. I wasn't wild about eating them fresh but we loaded 3 trays in our dehydrator and now have 2 zip lock bags of dried chiles!
We’ve been growing this pepper for 15 years at least at our garden center. It has its own followers, people come in year after year for it. We do not sell many but those that know it want it, employees and customers alike. Productive and very nice flavor.
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