Pimenta da Cachorro or Dog Pepper is a rare and distinctive chili variety from Brazil. It’s valued both for its unique appearance and its complex flavor. Here’s a detailed description:

🌶 Origin: Brazil — particularly in regions where heirloom peppers are grown for local culinary use.

🌿 Plant:

Compact, bushy plants about 2–3 feet (60–90 cm) tall.

Dense foliage with good fruit production.

Performs well in warm, humid tropical or subtropical climates.

🍎 Pods:

Small to medium-sized, often around 2–4 cm long.

Shape varies from rounded to slightly elongated or wrinkled, sometimes resembling a tiny habanero.

Colors mature from green to bright red, orange, or sometimes a golden hue depending on strain.

Thin walls with juicy flesh.

🔥 Heat Level:

Mild to medium (estimated 10,000–30,000 Scoville Heat Units).

Typically less hot than a habanero, but hotter than a jalapeño.

Delivers a pleasant, warming heat that doesn’t linger excessively.

👅 Flavor Profile:

Fruity, slightly floral, with tropical and citrus notes.

Balanced sweetness and tang, making it excellent for seasoning sauces, seafood, and meats.

🍽 Culinary Uses:

Commonly used in Brazilian cooking for marinades, hot sauces, and pickling.

Great for fresh salsas, vinegar infusions, or flavoring oil.

"Super Chili" Hybrid Pepper

Prolific Yield: Produces over 200 peppers per plant.

Color-Changing Fruit: Ripens from green to orange to red.

Heat Level: Moderate to high, 40,000-50,000 Scoville Heat Units.

Flavor Profile: Slightly floral.

Versatile Uses: Can be used in cooking, dried for seasonings, or grown for its ornamental appeal.

Fushimi Pepper Seeds – This traditional Japanese sweet pepper is delicious when eaten right off the plant! It has crispier skin and texture than its companion the Shishito pepper. The thin walls and bright green color make it very popular and widely used in Asian cooking, especially in tempura. These are generally picked and used when they are green, but you can also let them ripen more to a nice red color. 

Fushimi Peppers can be harvested earlier than most other peppers, and are very prolific the entire season, so you'll be harvesting them all summer. You can cook these up with a little sesame oil and salt in a hot frying pan, they are also great when grilled or pickled! 

Fushimi pepper plants produce a heavy crop of long 6" narrow pods. Plants are 24" tall and great for container gardens. Easy to grow in full sun and fertile soil. Capsicum annuum (80 days) Heirloom - Open-pollinated

Heat level: None

~ Packet contains 10 seeds. 

In early spring, start seeds indoors 8 weeks prior to warm nightly temperatures. Place the seeds in sterile media and cover 1/4” deep. Provide 85°F bottom heat, bright light and keep moist at all times. Seeds will germinate in 7 - 14 days. Transplant seedlings into pots and grow until there are 6 true leaves on the plant. Plant them directly into rich soil, 24” apart or into large containers. Harvest peppers when they are full size.

The Malagueta pepper is small, typically 1-2 inches long, and has a conical shape that tapers to a point. It ripens from green to a bright red. 

Flavor:

It has a fruity aroma and a flavor profile that is described as sweet, citrusy, and slightly bitter. 

Heat:

The Malagueta pepper is known for its intense heat, with a Scoville heat unit rating between 60,000 and 100,000. 

Usage:

It's a staple in Brazilian, Portuguese, and Mozambican dishes, often used in sauces like piri piri. It's also used to season meats, poultry, and vegetables. 

Plant:

The plant is bushy and dense, growing to about 2-3 feet tall, and produces many small peppers. 

Related Names:

In Brazil, smaller peppers may be called "malaguetinha," while larger ones are "malaguetão,"

Used in dishes callled Feijoada and Moqueca.

Garden Peach tomatoes are a cultivar of tomato, native South American fruit mainly from Peru. Its small, bright yellow fruit is the standard globe shape of tomato. With its yellow coloring, blushing vaguely pink mottling when very ripe, and fuzzy skin, it resembles a peach. This cultivar is also extremely prolific.

Open-pollinated heirloom  (71 days)

Fruit Color: Yellow. Shape: Round. Size: 2-4 oz. Plant Habit: Indeterminate  Plant Size: 5’

Tomatoes have fuzzy skin just like a peach! They are mildly sweet 2-4 oz fruits that are fun to grow and quite a novelty.

History: This heirloom was developed in 1890 by plant breeder Elbert S. Carman andwas introduced as a novelty in the Hallock & Sons 1890 seed catalog. In 1893 Burpee described this heirloom as "delicate, melting in the mouth like a grape".

Organic Heirloom non-GMO    10 Seeds

Open-pollinated heirloom  (67 days)

Fruit Color: Bi-color Yellow and Red. Size: 1-1/2" Round Cherry. Plant Habit: Indeterminate  Plant Size: 6’

This variety produces precious little 1-1/2" morsels of red and gold garden candy. They have a starburst pattern on the blossom end when ripe. This small early producing tomato is also heat and drought tolerant.

History: Sweet and fruity, Isis Candy has become a consistent winner at cherry tomato tasting contests. It rivals the Sun Gold flavor as a best-of-show cherry.  Kids really like this rich and fruity candy treat.

Carolina Reaper Yellow is a natural variant of the famous red Carolina Reaper. It is beautiful with its bright yellow skin, that is smoother and thicker than its cousin. This pepper has rip roaring heat that completely burns your mouth apart. Try it in your next hot sauce or put a few pieces on your salad to spice it up a lot!

Pods are 2-1/2” wide and 2-1/2” long with bright yellow skin and a small stinger. Flavor is citrusy sweet, and not bitter like other super hots. The bushy plants can grow up to 4’ tall. Capsicum chinense (90 days)

~ Packet contains 5 seeds.

Warning: Handling this pepper requires extreme caution. Wear hand, eye and breathing protection.

Heat Level: Furiously Hot   Scoville Heat Units: 1,000,000

LIABILITY WARNING STATEMENT:

We are not liable/responsible for use of this seed. It is sold 'as is' and use/responsibility/liability is entirely up to the consumer whom purchases these packets. The Carolina Reaper is the official hottest pepper in the world is the with a reported over 2 million Scoville heat units. So, enough of this pepper in a short period of time can surely kill you. Maybe. No one has tried it, nor would we recommend it!  Eating just one won't likely do it, but if you ate a whole bowl-full you could be in trouble! 

This rare pepper is crunchy and juicy with a mix of tropical flavors that are described as citrus and fruity with slightly smoky tones. Biquinho can be eaten raw or cooked, but are generally pickled in vinegar and served with meals. Try these Biquinho peppers which are also called Sweety Drops, in our Pickled Sweety Drop Peppers Recipe. These peppers are quite popular in Brazil, where they originated.

The peppers start as a striking deep purple or black, eventually ripening to a deep red with some purple undertones. They have a teardrop or beak-like shape, typical of the Biquinho family. 

Black Biquinho peppers have a sweet, fruity flavor with a mild heat. They are often described as having a slightly smoky taste when eaten fresh and are popular for pickling due to their flavor and texture. 

The heat is generally low, ranging from 500 to 2,000 Scoville Heat Units (SHU). 

The plants can grow to be 2 to 2.5 feet tall and have medium spread. The foliage and stems can be dark, adding to the pepper's ornamental appeal. 

Black Biquinho peppers are versatile in the kitchen. They are excellent for pickling, adding to salsas, hot sauces, and marinades, or using as a garnish. They can also be used in soups, stews, and even jams and jellies. 

They are a Brazilian heirloom pepper, belonging to the Capsicum chinense species. 

Capsicum annuum (90 days) Heirloom - Open Pollinated