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These highly prolific peppers have a surprising heat level that comes on immediately and lasts longer than expected. The 2" long peppers grow upright on bushes, ripening from yellow through orange to a bright fire-engine red. They are the only frutescens variety known with “juicy” fruits, not dry on the inside like all others, perfectly suited to fermenting!

Tabasco peppers like warm soil and warm weather to produce and ripen fully.

Named after the Mexican state of Tabasco and are the unique, treasured ingredient in Tabasco sauce from Louisiana. The name is a derivation of the Aztec Nahuatl word "tapach-co", meaning the place of shells or coral.

Maunsell White is credited with introducing these peppers to New Orleans in 1850. He subsequently gave them to Edmund McIlhenny, who married the daughter of Judge Avery, owner of a plantation on Avery Island. The rest is history, resulting in the world-famous Tabasco Pepper Sauce.