Shishito Pepper Grow Kit
Shishito pepper is a type of small, thin-skinned pepper that originated in Japan. It is green in color and typically measures about 2-4 inches in length. Shishito peppers have a mild, slightly sweet flavor with a hint of smokiness and are often served grilled or blistered as an appetizer or side dish.
What's Inside the Grow Kit?
🌱 Certified organic Shishito seedling - ready for transplant!🌱 15 gallon premium felt grow pot (optional)
🌱Organic soil amendments to boost organic planting soil. The amendments will be include the following ingredients: Fish Bone Meal, Fish Meal, Alfalfa Meal, Crab Meal, Shrimp Meal, Langbeinite, Basalt, Kelp Meal, Humic Acid, Mycorrhizal Fungi, and Beneficial Bacteria.
🌱 Detailed instructions for planting, caring for, and harvesting
PLEASE NOTE: To keep your new seedlings fresh and safe, we ship in 2 SEPARATE SHIPMENTS. One box for the planter, soil amendments and garden accessories and the other for the certified organic seedlings.
** Make sure to plant in nutrient dense soil, especially optimized for growing fruiting plants. You can purchase our magic organic soil here to fill your pot or garden bed.
Plant Specifications:
One of the unique characteristics of shishito peppers is that they are not uniformly spicy. While most of the peppers are mild, some can be quite hot, making eating shishito peppers a bit of a game of culinary roulette. This variation in heat level adds to the excitement and flavor of eating shishito peppers.
Shishito peppers have become increasingly popular in recent years, both in Japanese cuisine and in other international cuisines as a flavorful and unique ingredient. They are also relatively easy to grow at home, making them a popular choice for home gardeners.
These seedlings will mature in 55 to 65 days. You want to make sure to plant these seedlings in large container pots or in raised garden beds as they can get up to 2 feet high and 18 inches across. Shishito peppers are best when picked and cooked before they start turning red. Once temperatures dip into the low 50's consistently, you will wind down the plant and take your final harvest.
- Growing Season: Most fruiting plants have their peak growing season starting in Spring and extending through Fall. They need the warm days and nights to produce fruit.
- Harvest Method: As soon as the plant bears the fruit, harvesting can begin and will continue through the season. Most fruiting plants grow through a season and then are done.
- First Harvest: Fruiting plants take longer to bear fruit and can take 2-3 months to get to a harvesting stage.
- Final Harvest: Occurs at the end of summer and into early Fall for most climates. Some plants, such as strawberries will become dormant in Winter and then pop back into action in the Spring.
- Best Planted Wall Placement: Fruiting plants, like micro-tomatoes and jalapenos, that are smaller can grow on the Planted Wall. Place micro-tomatoes and jalapenos that grow in the Planted Wall near the top so you can maximize sun and warmth during the Summer. Larger fruiting plants are intended to be grown in larger grow pots (i.e. 15 gallon pots)
Most fruiting plants prefer warmer temperatures and will be dormant or grow very slowly in mild winter climates.
You want to be aware of the extreme temperature ranges in your region. If you follow the guidelines below, you will be safe:
COLD CLIMATES
- If you live in a location where the temperatures dip below freezing, then you will want to wait to grow fruiting plants until night temperatures are in the 50's consistently.
WARM CLIMATES:
- If you live where it reaches above 90 degrees consistently, you'll want to grow heat tolerant fruiting plants (tomatoes and peppers) and herbs (basil, mint, rosemary) primarily.
To find out what extreme temperatures your location experiences, check out the USDA zone for your region.
We always ship our organic seedlings at their peak for transplant which means they can be held before shipping. We typically ship plants according to the following schedule:
CA - ship Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays.
US states outside of CA - ship Mondays and Tuesdays.
Outside of US - we do not currently ship outside of the US.
For more information, refer to our shipping policy.
Don't worry we tend to over-communicate the details when it comes to logistics. You'll know when orders (both seedlings and other garden products) are shipped.
