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Jalapeño Big Pit × Jalapeño Purple Tiger Pepper Seeds
Jalapeño Big Pit × Jalapeño Purple Tiger Pepper SeedsA striking jalapeño cross that combines thick, compact pods with vivid purple, green, bronze and red colour stages. It brings a familiar jalapeño shape with a more colourful harvest an...
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Jalapeño Big Pit × Jalapeño Purple Tiger Pepper Seeds
A striking jalapeño cross that combines thick, compact pods with vivid purple, green, bronze and red colour stages. It brings a familiar jalapeño shape with a more colourful harvest and a medium level of heat for fresh salsa, pickling, roasting and hot sauce.
What to Expect
- Colour: green pods mature through purple, bronze and red tones, with natural variation from fruit to fruit.
- Shape: compact, thick-walled jalapeño-type peppers.
- Heat: approximately 2,500–8,000 SHU; individual plants and fruit can vary.
- Kitchen use: salsa, nachos, pickles, roasting, stuffing and fermented sauce.
Growing Notes
- Start indoors 8–10 weeks before the last frost.
- Transplant after nights are reliably warm and provide full sun.
- Harvest green for classic jalapeño flavour or allow pods to colour and sweeten.
Packet: 10+ seeds. Open-pollinated cross; grow several plants if selecting for a preferred colour or pod type.
Start indoors 8–10 weeks before last frost. Germinate at 26–30 °C on a heat mat; peppers stall below 22 °C. Pot up to 10–15 cm before hardening off outside after nights stay above 12 °C.
Feed balanced through bloom, then bump potassium for fruiting. Stake taller varieties. More detail in our full Canadian growing guide.
Match the pepper to the technique: thin-walled varieties blister fast in a hot pan; thick-walled ones roast or stuff beautifully; fruit-forward ones make balanced sauces and pickles. The variety's flavour profile is your shortcut — see Choosing the right pepper for a use-case guide.
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