Pepper (Hot) - Jalapeño, Yellow (Caloro) 🔥

The Caloro Pepper is a gilded name for the Yellow Jalapeño Pepper. If you grow these, it will help to have two things: lots of friends and lots of bags, because you are going to have lots of these hot peppers to share. This prolific plant produces 2"-3" tapered fruits continuously, all summer long, maturing from yellow to orange to red. Continuously. Yellow, orange, red. All summer long. Yellow, orange, red. Thick-skinned, sweet, and crunchy with a heat that’s milder than a Green Jalapeño, but still quite spicy. Yellow, orange, red. Continuously, all summer long.

• Very high yields
• Ever-bearing
• Hot jalapeño flavor
• Harvest any color

SEED PLANTING TIPS

• Botanical name: Capsicum annuum
• Pepper length: 2"-3"
• Scoville heat units (SHU): 1,000-5,000/mild to medium
• Plant support: Tomato cage or stake
• Depth to plant seeds: .25" deep
• Spacing between plants: 18"-24" apart
• Spacing between rows: 24"-36" apart
• Days to germinate (sprout): 7-21 days
• Germination soil temps: 75F-85F
• Soil needs: 6.0-7.0 pH
• Sun needs: Full sun
• Frost hardy: No
• Planting season: Spring, summer
• # of plants per sq. ft.: Appx. 1 plant per sq. ft.
• Days to maturity: 75-85 days