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'Alma Paprika' Peppers
 
Sub-Category: Sweet
 
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Description: Sweet, non-bell pepper used for drying, grinding, or fresh use. Small, thick-walled, sweet fruits start out creamy-white, maturing to orange then red.
Days To Maturity: 70-80
Seed Sources: Seed Savers Exchange - updated in 2014
Totally Tomato - updated in 2011

 
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Overall: (4.7 Stars)Overall
Taste: (5.0 Stars)Taste
Yield: (4.7 Stars)Yield
Ease/Reliability: (4.3 Stars)Ease/Reliability
 
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Reviewed on 10/20/2010 by Ferdzy - An intermediate gardener

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Ontario, Canada
Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days
Soil Texture: Sand
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day

Nice compact little plants absolutely smothered in peppers. They started early and kept going until first frost. They did very well in our hot, dry summer, and in spite of a purchased pepper plant introducing a virus into our pepper section. (Perhaps mild mottle virus.) They are very versatile - roast them, grill them, stuff them, pickle them or dry them. The smell of them drying in our food dryer is just amazing. Mostly they do seem very mellow, but as noted by others there is the occasional flicker of heat. This was my first year growing them and next year I intend to grow a lot more of these.
 

Reviewed on 01/07/2007 by Penelope - An experienced gardener

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Richland, South Carolina, United States
Frost Free Season: More than 203 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day

This pepper does develop a bit of heat as it ripens, but the sweet heat of the ripe fruit makes for a delicious treat! It's a wonderful pepper for stuffing and roasting or grilling; they come off the grill as juicy as a succulent peach. It's a small plant with medium productivity, and it has been somewhat susceptible to early blight, which is always a problem here in the Mildew State.
 

Reviewed on 09/14/2004 by Catskills - An experienced gardener

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Ulster, New York, United States
Frost Free Season: Fewer than 103 days
Soil Texture: Not Sure
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day

This was a 2004 experiment because we have real trouble getting peppers (tomatoes, eggplants and melons) to set fruit in our mountain valley with such cool nights. We ordered several plants from Seed Savers just to fill out an order. Eureka! In this cold, wet, cloudy summer Alma Paprika is producing 6-10 beautiful and delicious sweet peppers per plant. UPDATE: THESE PEPPERS DID DEVELOP SOME HEAT AS THEY MATURED ON THE PLANT--Dec 2) One plant has creamy yellow, orange and tomato-red peppers on it all at once, today 9/14. When all the tomato plants are blighted and the eggplants petering out, Alma Paprika perseveres. The fruits have thin walls but are very sturdy and none have dropped off. I marked ease/reliability "4 stars" only because I did not germinate them myself. (Conversely, we also tried "Fish" pepper plants which are lush and beautiful with varigated leaves, but have given us 0 peppers.) I mailed a couple at the yellow stage to my mother in MI. They arrived perfectly and promptly turned bright red. What a find for us! Seed Savers does not make every variety available every year.
 




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