Austin Peppers in South Texas

Hi there!

Small nursery in Cibolo, Texas, just outside San Antonio. Corwin and Debra. We ship live pepper plants, not seeds.

We grow indoors, so we're not tied to a season. Most places shipping live pepper plants run about four months a year. We go all twelve.

Superhots, natives, and a lot of baccatums. More than two hundred varieties, things you won't find at a garden center.

Worth saying for this crowd: peppers are perennials. Most people treat them as annuals because frost kills them, but kept warm they run for years and get better. If you can overwinter, a plant is a long-term thing rather than something you rebuy every spring.

Lower 48 apart from California, Florida and Arizona.

austinpeppers.com

Happy to answer questions about any variety.

Corwin

What kind of peppers do you sell?  I bet there are at a thousand different varieties.

do you have both sweet peppers and hot peppers?

Heya. My first message! We have 40-100 at a time it’s the slow season so it’s 40. Sweet and hot. All kinds. It’s one of those things that gets nerdy very quickly. There are — I think — more than 5000 chili peppers with a lot more crosses. Wikipepper.org says they have 5500 catalogued. The best ones in my opinion are from the baccatum species. They generally taste good and can grow in cooler climes. The plants also can — under the right circumstances — be perennial and survive decades. I am not old enough to know, but my son may find out if it’s true of my pepper trees.