Black Hungarian Pepper

These are one of my favorites from Seed Savers. I love the purple flowers it produces. The peppers themselves are also beautiful and have a rich spicy flavor. They have produced well in my Arizona garden.

I've grown these for 3 seasons and am tickled purple with the over-all quality of this beautiful variety. I've added them to my ornamental flower garden, where their purple highlights and flowers, and naturally balanced, upright form, nicely complement alyssum, gladiolus, and other ornamentals.

These peppers have wonderful culinary flexibility with excellent flavor, and are borderline mild when picked unripe (dark purple) with the seeds removed. Use them like you would a jalapeno (sliced, in salsa, picked, poppers, etc), or dry them out after they ripen to make crushed red pepper flakes or a sweeter cayenne substitute.

These are prolific producers (GA; I don't do much to prep my clay-heavy soil, they thrive anyway). The deer mostly leave them alone, and I've had many fewer pests (aphids, mostly) with these than other pepper varieties I grow.

I've had excellent results saving the seeds from two previous seasons.

These are all-around winners - highly recommend!

It was challenging to get these seeds to germinate, but the subsequent plants made up for that. They are elegant tree like plants that produce an abundance of peppers on each branch. They also have a pretty purple flower, nice change from all the white flowers of the other pepper varieties. First fruit started out all black, and as the season progressed red versions began growing. I will definitely be growing these again.