Habanada - Sweet Pepper

I started these indoors back in February in 12 pellets and gradually had them accustom to outside in March. Germination was good. Not sure why but all of them started shriveling up as seedlings. The weather outside was in the 70s with 50s nights, so I would take them back inside during nighttime. I was pretty disappointed that they all died when my other peppers were doing well. This variety might just be unsuitable for my climate so I will not grow this again.

A great Pepper to try. Some contributors have observed that they get ‘occasional hot peppers.’ Here’s the secret to that mystery: If the pepper’s flower self-pollinates, everything is fine, no heat. However, let’s say you (or your neighbor) grow ANY hot peppers (ghost, reaper, scorpion, etc.) A friendly bee can come from the hot pepper flower and pollinate the flower on the mild plant naturally creating a ‘new variety’ hybrid. Pollinated, that flower will grow into a fruit that is a child that will taste the same as the plant it’s growing on, with one important exception. The fruit contains ‘grandchildren’ (seeds) and ‘womb’ (membrane) that could be excessively hot. If you don’t scrape out seeds/membrane you’ll have a very hot meal. Peppers are VERY promiscuous; any pepper will cross pollinate with any other pepper. Best practice is to grow hot peppers far, far away from sweet peppers. Even still, it’s best to scrape membranes/seeds w/grapefruit spoon. Use plastic/rubber gloves.

I usually sort a roll my eyes when a seed description comes with the word "prolific". This happy little pepper invented the description. It has also weathered days of rain and intermittent watering when it wasn't raining. It's tasty. Really different from the usual bell pepper taste. The taste is light, almost the shadow of a taste. The seeds are not bitter and it is a lovely relish served whole on a plate. Sweet, but not overpowering. Crisp - very crisp. This pepper is also happy to be eaten in the garden.

I'm in Toronto, Ontario. This pepper is crazy. VERY low WIDE plant with a TON of peppers. Tastes just like a hab with no heat just as advertised. I grow them to mix with habs for hot sauce to bring down the heat a bit. Beautiful pepper.

I love these peppers! I do not like heat and these peppers had great taste without that heat. I had several pepper plants that I started indoors in late Feb '18 and they all grew and transplanted well outside around memorial day. They started off slow but by the mid-end of summer I had SO MANY fruit that I couldn't keep up with them! I pickled the remainder by late October since our cold weather came earlier last year and I still had so many left! Some were not ripened but still had great taste. The plants even lasted through the first couple frosts, I did have them completely covered so that helped for a couple weeks. I am definitely going to buy these seeds again!