Variety profile
Chili ‚Jalapeño’
Capsicum chinense · Solanaceae
- Ripening
- mittel
- Harvest
- Week 31 to 40
- Vigour
- mittel
- Growth habit
- buschig
- Origin
- Mexiko
- Open-pollinated
- Yes
- Heritage variety
- Yes
- Use
- Frisch, Einlegen, Grillen, Sauce
- Disease resistance
- Tabakmosaikvirus: mittel
About this variety
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Probably the best known chilli for the home garden and a rewarding start if you do not like it too hot. You harvest the thick walled fruit green or let it ripen red, at which point it becomes milder and sweeter. Robust, early cropping and reliable in a pot on the balcony or terrace too.
Picked green it is crisp and grassy with a clear, easily judged heat; ripened red it turns rounder and fruitier. Fresh in salad, stuffed from the grill or pickled as the nacho classic.
Care and diseases
Soil, feeding, pruning, companion planting and diseases apply to every variety of this species alike. You will find the full guidance on the species page.
All care notes for Chili