Lemon Drop Hot Pepper | Capsicum baccatum | Certified Organic
Peruvian pepper with flavorful bright heat.
Its habit is incredibly vigorous, forming big, tall, strongly upright plants that are naturally lush. Each plant tends to bear heavily (one plant is plenty for the home gardener!), its branches laden with dozens of small, waxy-skinned fruit that turn from light green in mid-season to golden yellow at ripeness. The flavor of each is exceptional: truly citrusy and suitable for spicing a dish without overwhelming it. If you like a bit of heat, one pepper is enough for a pot of chili; use more if you are a fiend
Lemon Drop takes a few weeks longer to mature than your average garden pepper, but it's well worth the wait!
Start indoors 8-10 weeks before last frost in very warm spot (80 degrees is ideal). Keep seedlings in a well-ventilated place at 70+ degrees and do not over water. Transplant outdoors in full sun into rich, well drained soil after threat of frost has passed. Peppers can tolerate dryness and heat, but need moderate water to produce fruit and prefer to be watered at the base.
Days to Germination 7-14 days
Days to Maturity 100 from transplant
Planting Depth ½"
Spacing in Row 24"
Spacing Between Rows 24"
Height at Maturity 36"
Width at Maturity 24"
Sun Preference Full Sun
Artwork by Sandra Urie. This vibrant work is painted upon a base created with pyrography, the art of etching patterns into wood with a hot metal pen. Based in Texas, Sandra was born in Argentina. She uses pyrography in combination with paint and high-intensity inks.
About Hudson Valley Seed Company
They are a values-driven seed company that practices and celebrates responsible seed production and stewardship. Hudson Valley are best known for their beautiful artist-design seed packs (Art Packs) that appeal to gardeners, gift buyers, and lovers of art and nature.
These Art Packs, most fundamentally, tell stories. Hudson Valley challenges artists to convey in a manner that is fully their own, the history and meaning of the seed variety contained in each pack. These stories were once integral to traditional societies-stories of seeds were often origin stories for entire communities and peoples, and the lore and beliefs that accumulated around seed varieties reflected the nearly familial way in which gardeners and farmers regarded their crops. Our society is, by and large, no longer connected to plants this way. But we like to think these Art Packs help to stitch our fragmented world back together: useful seeds, evocative art, both equally valuable to our experience of being human.