Jalapeno Hot Pepper

Seed Count: Approx. 25 seeds Days to Maturity: 75 days from transplant Description:  The Jalapeno produces sausage shaped fruits average average around 4 inches long and 2 inches wide.  The fruit are a beautiful dark green that are extremely slow to turn red. Upright dark green plants grow from 2 to 3 feet tall.  They will continue producing over an extended period of time, making this pepper an excellent choice for a home garden.  It's a very popular seasoning in Mexican and American cuisines, and it's great raw, cooked, pickled, smoked, or dried.  On the Scoville scale they are recorded at 3,500 to 6,000 Scoville heat units.  Fun fact, the state of Texas produces more jalapeno peppers than any other state, and made the jalapeno its state pepper in 1995. How To Grow Sowing:  Start pepper seeds indoors in peat pots, about 8 weeks before your last expected spring frost. Sow them 1/4 of an inch deep, and keep the soil at 80-85 degrees F until they germinate.  If the soil is too cold it