Anaheim Chili Pepper

Plant Availability: April - September 2021 

Produce Availability: To Be Announced

Price: To Be Announced

Maturation: It can take up to 80 days for Anaheim peppers to mature. 

Plant Size: A mature Anaheim pepper plant will usually be between 18 and 24 inches tall.

Scoville scale: From 500 to 2,500

These mildly sweet chili peppers are generally bright green to lime green in color. The pepper skin can be waxy, glossy, and semi-thick. The chili peppers average 5 inches in length at maturity and are long and slightly curved. The Anaheim chili is typically used in canned green chili and makes an exceptionally mild but fresh salsa with just the right kick of heat.

Depending on where the Anaheim chili pepper was grown, the range on the Scoville scale can be from 500 to 2,500, making the Anaheim a very mild to moderate hot pepper. Grown at the Rusty Hoe, our Anaheim peppers are very comparable to a Pablano in heat.

You may also know the Anaheim pepper as a Hatch pepper. The plants are the same, but location is critical to the name and the level of heat. The Anaheim chili is grown in Anaheim, California and is on the miler side, while the Hatch chili is grown in the Mesilla Valley of New Mexico near the town of Hatch and tends to be much hotter.

We plant all of our Anaheim Chili Peppers from non-GMO seed stock into our specially blended potting mix. Shortly after germination, we carefully hand-transplant the seedlings into either 6 or 4 count cell packs. Our peppers are available in this size until they exceed the root space, at which time we re-pot into 4 inch round pots, and even later in the season we move them up to gallon sized containers. 

Because of the extended growing season that we enjoy here in Arkansas, the Rusty Hoe will have a full line of peppers on our shelves from April until September 2021.