Rhode Island Fry Pepper Blend Elongated Sweet Pepper

seeds
Capsicum annuum
(70 days) Open pollinated.

Get your skillet good and greasy for this sweet blend of frying peppers in fun colors: bright red, yellow and a distinct rich brown. Early and flavorful 2x6" thin-walled juicy fruits ripen as early as Carmen in Zone 5 on compact sturdy plants that crank out loads of fruits until first frost. Tasty fresh eating and delectable when sautéed or roasted. 

To ensure a well-balanced mix, each color pepper is maintained and selected individually; there might be slight variation in the size and shape of peppers. Bred in the early 2000s by Katie Jagger and Ben Torpey at their now-latent farm-based seed company Small State Seeds in RI. Donna Dyrek and Heron Breen have continued selecting the population and growing the seed here in Maine.

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3755 Rhode Island Fry Pepper Blend

A: 0.2g
$3.50
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B: 0.4g
$5.25
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C: 1g
$9.95
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D: 2g
$14.50
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E: 4g
$23.00
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Quick Details
Hybrid Status
open pollinated
Days to Maturity
70 days
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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.

* We are currently receiving seed from our growers. We may hold orders for up to two weeks as we pack seed to complete orders.

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

Elongated Picklers, Fryers & Roasters

About 110–210 seeds/g.

Germination Testing

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

Our Seeds are Non-GMO

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.