NuMex Jalapeño Orange Spice – This new hot and colorful orange jalapeño is great in the home garden along with yellow and green jalapeños. Orange Spice also gives market growers a competitive advantage for buyers desiring new colors of jalapeños. These orange Jalapeños also ripen earlier than most other peppers at just 65 days, so you’ll be able to enjoy these beauties sooner than later. This year’s jalapeño party appetizers will be bright and extra, extra hot! It has thick flesh and spicy flavor like the Early Jalapeño, but 3x more heat.

Plants are 24” tall and pods 2-1/2” x 1” wide. Capsicum annuum (65 days) Heirloom – Open Pollinated

Heat Level: Very Very Hot  Scoville: 80,000

~ Packet contains 10 seeds.

In early spring, start seeds indoors 8 weeks prior to warm nightly temperatures. Place the seeds in sterile media and cover 1/4” deep. Provide 85°F bottom heat, bright light and keep moist at all times. Seeds will germinate in 7 – 21 days. Transplant seedlings into pots and grow until there are 6 true leaves on the plant. Plant them directly into rich soil, 30” apart or into large 5 gallon containers. Harvest peppers when they are full size and orange.