Materials: Seeds, pepper seeds, hot pepper, hot pepper seeds, cherry pepper, cherry red hots pepper, red, red cherry pepper, garden seeds, cherry

The peppers are about 1.5" across and green when young, turning to red when mature. Their small size makes them ideal for stuffing. They mature in 75 days and produce 3,500 Scoville Heat Units.

Records show that hot peppers were discovered by Christopher Columbus in his travels and taken back to Europe, where they immediately established themselves in European cuisine. Originally, cooks began using hot peppers to flavor their food because of the expense of the spice black pepper; soon, however, hot peppers became extremely popular and even preferred.