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Delite Snacking Pepper Blend

seeds

Capsicum annuum
(65 days) F-1 hybrid.

Mix of Ruby, Orange and Lemon Delite. In our trials, these sweet mild colorful 3–4" long peppers with thick juicy walls quickly became a favorite midday snack. Dip them in hummus or just crunch on them in the field. They really shine for fresh eating, yet we wouldn’t turn our noses up at a pile of them roasted or sautéed.

Fruits vary slightly in shape (some lobed, some slightly tapered), but are consistent in size and maturity across the three varieties. Early, hardy and productive until frost.

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3745 Delite Snacking Pepper Blend

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Quick Details

Hybrid Status: F-1 hybrid
Days to Maturity: 65 days

Shipping

From early May through mid-December, items shipping from our garden seeds warehouse ship twice a week, usually Tuesday and Thursday. For quickest turnaround time order online by noon Monday or Wednesday.

Additional Information

Peppers

Days to full-color maturity are from transplanting date.

Capsicum comes from the Greek kapto which means ‘bite.’

Culture: Start indoors in March or April. Minimum germination soil temperature 60°, optimal range 68-95°. Set out in June. Very tender, will not tolerate frost, dislike wind, will not set fruit in cold or extremely hot temperatures or in drought conditions. Black plastic highly recommended. Row cover improves fruit set in windy spots. Pick first green peppers when they reach full size to increase total yield significantly. Green peppers, though edible, are not ripe. Peppers ripen to red, yellow, orange, etc.

Saving Seed: Saving pepper seed is easy! Remove core of the fully ripe pepper (usually red or orange) and dry on a coffee filter. When dry, rake seeds off the core with a butter knife. To ensure true-to-type seed, grow open- pollinated varieties and separate by 30 feet. Use only the first fruits for seed; allow only 3–4 fruits per plant to grow and remove all others. Fewer fruits = larger seeds = greater seed viability. Later fruits often have germination rates of only 60%.

Diseases:

BLS: Bacterial Leaf Spot
CMV: Cucumber Mosaic Virus
TMV: Tobacco Mosaic Virus

Germination Testing

For the latest results of our germination tests, please see the germination page.

Our Seeds are Non-GMO

All of our seeds are non-GMO, and free of neonicotinoids and fungicides. Fedco is one of the original companies to sign the Safe Seed Pledge.