Fresno chili peppers Scoville heat units: 5,500 to 20,000 (medium) – Hotter than a jalapeno.
Fresno chili is a Jalapeo style chili, but hotter than most Jalapeos. High yields of medium-sized fruit are borne on short, upright plants.
The peppers ripen from green to red. Excellent for picking, canning, sauces, and salsas. Vigorous 24 to 30 inch tall plants have dense, dark green foliage and are resistant to tobacco mosaic virus. A good pickler, the fruit is also ready to eat at a mature green stage, even before it turns red. plants 18 inches apart in rows 30 inches apart.
- Fruit size: 2 inches x 1 inch
- Matures: 70 to 80 days
- Plant Size: 24 to 30 inches tall, 18 inches wide
Start these vegetable seeds indoors about before your last frost date. Be sure to keep them in a warm place so that the soil temperature stays above 75°. Young heirloom pepper plants like it to stay warm and will develop best if kept happy.
Only transplant after the heirloom pepper seedlings have shown several sets of their true leaves and only once you are sure the outside soil temperature is consistently above 65
Heirloom seeds are hardy but always take care with your garden seeds to give them the appropriate amount of moisture – not letting the vegetable seeds dry out prematurely or overwatering and possibly having them rot.