Tesuque

Northern New Mexico Landrace Chile, a traditional chile from the Pueblo of Tesuque, located in the desert Southwest, approximately 10 miles north of Santa Fe. Hot! Easy to dry for making chile power, and makes a tasty fresh hot pepper sauce. Thin walls, great yields 3-4" peppers on small pepper plants (2 ft tall) that require staking on well-branched plants. Start seeds indoors 8-10 weeks before the last frost date in spring, but are not fussy about heated bottom trays to germinate or grow true leaves. Once started, it grows well in several ranges of temperatures when other hot peppers struggle. My plants are still producing flowers and peppers in mid-November in highs of 48f and night lows of 33f! I enjoy growing them since they are easy to grow, and very prolific (15-30 peppers per plant per harvest, and in a long-season summer area, I have harvested three large crops). These peppers are fairly sturdy with high or lower temperatures, drought conditions, have limited pest issues, and are not affected by blossom rot. Harvest the peppers when they turn red.