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Tips for Growing Banana Peppers Capsicum annum ‘Sweet Banana’ and othersI’m a practical-minded vegetable gardener, and that’s why I favor banana peppers.
This type of Capsicum annuum earned its fruity name by producing light or bright yellow, tapered peppers. Some cultivars are sweet and others are hot.
Let me share the practical benefits right up front.
These prolific peppers are ready to harvest about 60 days from transplant for the light yellow fruits, or 70 to 80 days if you wish to pick more fully developed orange or red-hued fruits.
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That maturity rate is similar for cayennes, cubanelles, and serranos, but it beats super hot varieties like habanero to harvest.
If you love hot, spicy garden veggies but live where the growing season is abbreviated by cold weather, this could be the type of pepper for you!
Fewer days to maturity also minimizes water and weeding chores and may allow you to be the first on the block to a pepper harvest. I love this trait, which I guess makes me competitive in addition to being pragmatic!
Of course, there are some tradeoffs for all those advantages. Sweet banana pepper flesh isn’t as sweet as that of most bell varieties, so it isn’t quite as desirable on the crudite tray or in the lunchbox.
The tapered ends of the five- to six-inch-long fruits aren’t as convenient or attractive to use as jalapenos, either, if you intend to stuff your peppers with cream cheese to fry as “poppers.” But they’re still delicious when you prepare them that way.
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