Hot Pepper Plants

When it comes to spicing things up in the kitchen, nothing does it like flavorful hot peppers picked fresh from your garden. Our assortment of live hot pepper plants includes varieties with heat levels from mild to fire-alarm hot. Read our blog for tips on harvesting hot peppers.


We grow our hot pepper plants in larger pots, ensuring a more vigorous root system. We guarantee our starter plants to arrive alive, ready to thrive. Our hot pepper plants start shipping according to the dates on our Spring Ship Dates page.

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Anaheim Chili Red Hot Pepper Plant

Price $3.35

The 'Anaheim Chili Red' Hot Pepper Plant produces the most commonly used hot peppers for cooking. The fruits are 7 to10 inches long with thin skin that changes from green to red to brownish-red, depending on the stage of development. Anaheim Chili Red are not the hottest peppers on the market but they do have a mild hotness. Anaheim Chili Red Peppers are great for eating fresh, canning, or drying. Also great for using in Mexican dishes such as Chilis Rellenos. Each pot contains 1 pepper plant. SOLD OUT FOR 2012

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Cayenne Long Slim Hot Pepper Plant

Price $3.35

The 'Cayenne Long Slim' Hot Pepper Plant produces peppers with a delightfully pungent flavor! It is used for pickling, canning or drying. Cayenne Long Slim is a 6-inch pepper that is dark green to red at maturity. Plants are 24 inches tall with good foliage cover. Each pot contains 1 pepper plant.

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Garden Salsa Hot Pepper Plant

Price $3.35

The 'Garden Salsa' Pepper Plant produces a hot pepper that has just the right amount of heat for most people, depending upon when you harvest it. With a healthy bite to it when they are green, the temperature goes up if you wait until they are fully red. You can compare the green ones to a Jalapeno while the red ones are quite similar to a Habanero. The Garden Salsa Pepper has smooth skins with medium-thick walls that taper to a point and are equally attractive, red or green. Each pot contains 1 pepper plant.

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Habanero Hot Pepper Plant

Price $3.35

The 'Habanero' Pepper is HOT! It’s the hottest open-pollinated pepper plant available, said to be 100 times hotter than the jalapeño. The Habañero plant has 2-inch, wrinkled, lantern-shaped peppers that turn from green to orange-coral. The peppers are used in sauces and for oil extract. Each pot contains 1 pepper plant.

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Hungarian Yellow Wax Heirloom Hot Pepper Plant

Price $3.35

The 'Hungarian Yellow Wax' Hot Pepper Pepper is a medium-hot, old-world favorite. It is the perfect variety for pickled peppers. Other popular uses include salads, frying, canning and roasting. Hungarian Yellow Wax is mild enough to eat like an apple and "warm" enough to induce a small endorphin rush. The waxy finish makes it as attractive as it is flavorful. Each pot contains 1 pepper plant.

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Jalapeno M Hot Pepper Plant

Price $3.35

The 'Jalapeño M' Hot Pepper Plant has hot peppers with an extended harvest that is suited for the home gardener, since the peppers will not all ripen at once. Jalapeño M is a medium-thick-walled green to red pepper. It is used for Mexican dishes and also for pickling. Each pot contains 1 pepper plant.

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Poblano Hot Pepper Plant

Price $3.35

The 'Poblano' Pepper Plant bears a mild, large chile pepper. In fact, this is the chile used for making Chile Relleno, a common south-of-the-border entrée. Sometimes erroneously sold north of Mexico as a pasilla pepper, the poblano is the most popular pepper grown in Mexico. The immature peppers will be a dark, purplish-green color, but then will lighten to a glossy, waxy emerald green, turning a rich reddish-black when fully ripe. Poblano peppers are preserved by roasting and peeling, after which they can be canned or frozen. You can also dry and ground them into a powder for flavoring recipes, which is usually done when they’ve turned red. The average Poblano pepper will be 4 to 6-inches long and about 2.5-inches in diameter, making them perfect for stuffing with a variety of cheeses, meats and rice. Each pot contains 1 pepper plant.

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Serrano Hot Pepper Plant

Price $3.35

The 'Serrano' Hot Pepper Plant produces one of the hottest and easiest peppers to grow. They do not beat out Habaneros but they are 5 times hotter than the Jalapeno. Serrano Pepper colors differ with each plant: they can be red, brown, orange, or yellow, and they reach up to 2 inches in length. It is best to wear disposable gloves when handling Serrano Peppers, and do not touch your face until your hands are thoroughly washed. Serrano Peppers work well in salsas and sauces because they do not need to be peeled or seeded before adding. Simply roast, remove the stem, and add to your favorite spicy recipe. Each pot contains 1 pepper plant.

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Tabasco Hot Pepper Plant

Price $3.35

Our 'Tabasco' hot pepper plant is considered a medium-hot pepper with a Scoville rating of 30,000 to 50,000. Next to the jalapeño, this pepper is one of the most well known and widely used, including it being the star ingredient in that famous Tabasco® Sauce. The fruit grows upward from the foliage, is under 2 inches long, and gently tapers to a blunt point. Emerging yellowish-green, the peppers will mature to yellow, and then orange, and finally to bright red. Use sparingly and use care when handling Tabasco peppers, as their spicy nature can bite the hand that cleans them! Each pot contains 1 pepper plant.