Hot Pepper, Jalapeno Pepper 'Jalapeno'

Just a few plants keep us in more jalapeno poppers than we can wolf down. Low maintenance & prolific, it's also OP, so you can save the seeds.

I grow lots of Jalapeno's in the summer and grind them up to use in salsa's or cooking all year. They are the best.

One of the most useful hot peppers. Medium heat allows for use in a lot of varied dishes. Always have a couple of these plants in my ga...Read Morerden.

Tip for northern gardeners: I always take the smallest jalapeno plant and pot it for inside growth. I have gotten Jalapeno's until February from some of the plants I have brought in from the cold.

Definitely one of my favorite hot peppers to grow here in Virginia, as regardless of weather conditions they always produce heavily. By ...Read Morethe end of the growing season, the usually 2-foot tall plants are still bent down by the weight of the crop - some red; some green.

Fruits freeze beautifully - just rinse & dry whole, toss in a Ziplock bag, & into the freezer. When ready to use (in virtually any recipe calling for hot peppers), simply remove from bag, rinse a few seconds under running, water, stem, seed & chop as required. Extremely easy to work with while still semi-frozen, & does retain some texture after freezing.

This pepper is a must-have in my garden every year.

We've grown these several years running in our garden and my husband loves them. They're easy to grow and produce tons of peppers on one bushy plant.

"Corking" is natural to some jal varieties. Considered desirable in Mexico, but not so much in the USA markets.

Jalapenos are a great all around hot pepper. They can be used for about any thing a hot pepper can be.

I have encountered ...Read Morea wide range of heat levels in Jalapenos too...sometimes on the same plant and in the same season. The amount of stress the plant encounters seems to contribute to the pepper heat.

I guess because these peppers tend to be in the lower end of the heat spectrum in my garden (I grow many which are much hotter) I tend to let my guard down when using them...sometimes I get surprised at the amount of fire they contain.

Large bushy plants produce a huge amount of fruit. A great plant and pepper for the beginning 'chili head'.

75 days. Dark green, medium-hot, thick-walled peppers 3" long, 1" wide, with rounded tips. Matures to dark red. It is a somewhat generic ...Read Morecultivar but it grows well and duplicates the taste and size of the grocery store jalapenos.

There are many varieties of Jalapeno from the mild Jalapa I've grown to Biker Billy's great heat count. We eat them with Cheese and crac...Read Morekers all summer long right from the bush. Although conventional science says that Jalapenos have about a 10,000 scoville count, I would contend that the Biker Billy variety must be 20,000 to 25,000, because it is HOT!

This is one of the tallest species of pepper plants, reaching up to the heigh of an average man. It´s planted commercially, but is rarel...Read Morey seen on yards. Actually, despite the bright red peppers (fairly big ones), the plant´s overall look isn´t really interesting.

I planted 2 of these this year because my fiancee loves peppers. So far they have grown to a decent height. I have not seen any blooms ye...Read Moret. Also one of the two is a lighter shade of green. I think it may be sick. If you have any growing tips I definitely need them! Ha! Ha!