Comments on: Passow’s Particularly Potent Pretty Pepper Plants

By: Joseph Stephens

Joseph Stephens — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 01:17:33 +0000

My son-in-law gave me a few jalapeno plants.I love to eat them.We put 2 plants in a large pot with a minature rose but never got them in the ground.They started growing so good we left them.They are about 6′tall now and have 40 something peppers.Wasn’t sure what the record is for the height of the plants.If you know please let us hear. Thank You J.L.Stephens

By: Merle Brightshue

Merle Brightshue — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:28:40 +0000

I too was curious about how tall bell peppers would grow. I searched on green house food production. I went to an Alberta, Canada gov. website and the info there is the normal height of the plants are 13 feet!!!
http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/opp4523
is the location of this document.

By: Jonathan Passow

Jonathan Passow — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:54:39 +0000

6 feet is a pritty good size for that one. The world record for tallest pepper plant is 13 feet I believe. Tallest I ever got was 10 feet and then I had to move so I never broke it

By: Dave Peterson

Dave Peterson — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:12:15 +0000

I just wanted to mention that I have a sweet yellow banana pepper plant that is approximately 6 ft. tall. I was doing a search for ‘world’s tallest pepper plant’ and found your website. We also have a green bell pepper plant that is 5 ft. tall.

By: parker394

parker394 — Tue, 29 May 2007 16:25:08 +0000

Man those plants look Great! Mine are struggling to survive.

By: Jonathan Passow

Jonathan Passow — Mon, 28 May 2007 20:00:27 +0000

Will you grow ones in those thru the whole season or will you transplant any of those?

I’ll be growing those all season. Some of them are 3 years old. I transplant them up into large pots or into the ground when they get too big (root wise) for their containers.

We were wondering if our Jamaican Hot Pepper is similar in heat & overall profile to any of the ones you’re growing.

Well, that one is similar in heat and color to my Congo Habanero. You’re really going to love the taste of that one btw.

By: Joe & Linda

Joe & Linda — Mon, 28 May 2007 19:13:08 +0000

Hey Jon,

Wow, garden’s looking good! Few of us could grow so much with so little soil, so we were interested to see you using some containers as well. Will you grow ones in those thru the whole season or will you transplant any of those?

Also, we are growing a few of the same kinds of peppers (rocoto, Naga Morich/Bhut Jolokia) and some that are very similar (our Sandia to your NuMex Big Jim). We were wondering if our Jamaican Hot Pepper is similar in heat & overall profile to any of the ones you’re growing. Check out:

Jamaican Hot Pepper

Keep us up-to-date!!