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''Buena Mulata' Pepper' Peppers |
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Beautiful, spicy, and flavorful cayenne pepper that starts purple and then passes through salmon and orange on the way to turning a gorgeous red. The tall striking plants are laden with 4-5 inch fruits, which are tasty at all stages, but we prefer the added sweetness of the fully red fruit.
Buena Mulata Pepper was the name on the baby food jar next to the name "Pippin" in the bottom of the deep freezer in William Woys Weaver's grandmother's basement, a decade after his plant-loving grandfather's untimely death. If you've heard of the Fish Pepper, this story probably sounds familiar. There were many other seeds besides those of the beautiful, delicious, and now widely-available Fish Pepper in that frozen trove, and many that passed through Horace Pippin's hands, including this Buena Mulata. Horace Pippin is now a well-known artist who beautifully depicted everyday life, landscapes, religion, WWI, and themes of the injustices of slavery and segregation. In the 1940s, he traded seeds from his friends in the Black catering communities of Philly and Baltimore in exchange for bee sting therapy for WWI arm injury from William Woys Weaver's grandfather H. Ralph Weaver's hives. Seeds stay viable longer in the freezer; our heirlooms only survive if someone removes them from storage and places them in soil; and stories only live when they are told.
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75-80
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True Love Seeds - updated in 2025
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| Rating Summary |
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Overall: (4.9 Stars)
Taste: (4.7 Stars)
Yield: (5.0 Stars)
Ease/Reliability: (4.9 Stars) |
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Number of Reviews: 7
KEY: O=Overall Rating, T=Taste, Y=Yield, E=Ease
Reviewed on 10/10/2025 by
Cafolla
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Monroe, New York, United States
Frost Free Season: 163 - 183 days
Soil Texture: Not Sure
Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20')
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| 7/28 - one red - hot!! nice taste. good degree of hot. pretty looking |
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Reviewed on 10/10/2025 by
Gasieiwcz
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Wyoming, New York, United States
Frost Free Season: 123 - 143 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| Plants did better in poor soil conditions. Large plant with low yields in better soils. Well acclimated to grow in poor soil and still obtain high yields. small pepper great for drying and makes good cayenne style hot sauce |
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Reviewed on 09/29/2025 by
Tompkins MGs
- An experienced gardener
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Tompkins, New York, United States
Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20')
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| Strong plants started producing very pretty peppers early and produced a lot. The purple peppers were beautiful, but hotter than some testers liked. The change in color to red made them even more attractive. |
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Reviewed on 09/24/2025 by
CCE Rockland
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Rockland, New York, United States
Frost Free Season: 163 - 183 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20')
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| This was an easy plant to grow with a good yield of peppers. Really attractive when the peppers are purple. Tried them at all colors and found them to be flavorful with a hot but not excessively hot taste. |
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Reviewed on 09/19/2025 by
Jessica Luse
- An experienced gardener
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Saratoga, New York, United States
Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days
Soil Texture: Not Sure
Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| very spicy peppers, really great additions to stir-fry, soups, hot sauces, tomato sauces, etc. |
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Reviewed on 08/25/2025 by
Schenectady CCE
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Schenectady, New York, United States
Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| Great yield and good heat as described. Be sure to wait until they turn from purple to red for maximum flavor. |
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Reviewed on 08/25/2025 by
CCE Chemung JS
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Chemung, New York, United States
Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days
Soil Texture: Not Sure
Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20')
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| Colorful and very hot. |
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