This beautiful purple-colored pepper is slightly larger than the traditional serrano pepper and can have less heat. It is delicious when added to Pico de Gallo, salads, and salsas! Add a few chopped up to your pickled hot pepper recipe for a colorful mix.
This plant produces good yields of 3" long by 1" wide hot peppers with medium-thick flesh. The pods ripen in color from green to deep purple and then to red. Tall 24-36โ plants have green fuzzy leaves.
In early spring, start seeds indoors 8ย weeks prior to warm nightly temperatures. Place the seeds in sterile media and cover 1/4โ deep. Provide 85ยฐF bottom heat, bright light, and keep moist at all times. Seeds will germinate inย 7 -ย 21ย days. Transplant seedlings into pots and grow until there are 6 true leaves on the plant. Plant themย directly into rich soil, 30โ apart or into large 5-gallon containers. Harvest chiles when they are green. If left on the plant a couple more weeks, theย chilesย will turn red at full maturity.