Shishito Pepper Seeds - Capsicum Annuum - Delicious, Prolific, and Exciting
Quantity: 10 Seeds
Species: Capsicum Annuum
Scovilles: 50 - 200
Shishito peppers are a fun and delicious capsicum variety. The plants grow to be about 2 feet tall, and equally wide, and can yield dozens of pods with minimal effort. The fruits can be enjoyed green or when they're red and fully ripe, but their flavour truly shines when the green pods are fried or roasted with nothing more than a little oil and salt. What makes this variety so much fun to eat is that most of the pods will be mild or void in spice, but every so often one of them will be much hotter than the rest. That said, the average pod is only 50 on the Scoville scale, and the hotter ones get as high as 200, so seasoned heat lovers will find them tolerable at any level.
All seeds are organic and open pollinated.
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Growing Instructions
It's best to start pepper seeds as early in the season as possible; we start them here on the farm in January. It's good to sow them in a sterile growing medium; most available seed starting soils should do the job nicely; we use sunshine mix (peat moss and perlite). The soil should be made moist, but not damp. Sow the seeds 1/4 inch below the soil surface. Store in a warm area until tiny sprouts emerge from the soil. A heat mat aids in this step, but is not necessary. Seeds can take between 2-8 weeks to germinate, but they can sometimes take less time too. Once germinated, and the first true leaf has formed, it's time to pot up to a larger container that contains a good quality potting soil. Transplant to their final location when the nighttime temperatures are consistently 8°C or higher. These peppers grow very well in pots or containers; I recommend 5 gallon pots of larger. Peppers do best when grown in full sun.