Vegetable / Warm season
California Wonder Pepper
Reliable patio and raised-bed sweet pepper for fresh eating.
Blocky green-to-red fruit with mild sweetness.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 72
- Germination temperature
- 75-90F
- Seed depth
- 0.25 inches
- Spacing
- 18 inches
- Row spacing
- 30 inches
- Start method
- Start indoors
Frost-date timing
- Indoor start
- 8 weeks before last frost
- Transplant
- 21 days after last frost
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Consistent moisture; mulch after soil warms.
- Soil
- Warm, fertile, well-drained soil; avoid excess nitrogen.
- Watch
- Avoid rushing outside before nights are reliably warm.
- sweet
- container
- heat-loving
Browse context
- Vegetable Catalog Category collection
- Nightshade Family Rotation and family context
- Warm Season Seeds Season collection
- Start Indoors Seeds Start-method collection
- Container-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
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Source: UMN starting seeds indoors