Aji amarillo mini pepper seeds -- great for overwintering

Aji amarillo pepper mini (Capsicum baccatum) 

Warm Season Annual in most climates but can be overwintered to be a perennial

Full Sun 

Delicious fruity flavor, mild heat that varies

Great in ground and in containers

Cannot take frost, but doesn't mind cool weather

Best pepper to overwinter that we have ever grown!

Different species of pepper (see below)

I got these seeds from a guy in California 14 or so years ago, been saving the seeds and growing them ever since. Not only is this pepper one of the most delicious peppers we have ever eaten, it is a different species of pepper, (Capsicum baccatum) so it should NOT cross with any other "normal" peppers. This is important if you still want to grow some heat, but are saving seeds from sweet peppers. 

The heat on these varies, you will occasionally get one that has no heat, but typically they are about as hot as a jalepeno pepper. 

They are from the highlands of parts of South America where there is no frost but the weather is quite cool. There they are a perennial. So if they are protected from frost, they can be quite easily overwintered -- actually far more so than any other pepper we have ever grown. If you can over winter them inside, when you put them out in the late spring when there is no danger of frost, you can get up to three times or more the yield you would get growing them as an annual, and much earlier harvests. 

We regularly harvest these peppers well into Jan and Feb either in the greenhouse or in the basement. 

The cool weather tolerance of these peppers makes them excellent choices in cool or mild summer climates. That being said, they have also done phenomenally well here in Tennessee with a very hot summer climate. 

Our favorite pepper to grow!