Which Is The BEST JALAPEÑO Pepper? Tasting 8 Varieties - Pepper Geek

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In today's video, we're comparing 8 different jalapeño pepper varieties. We decided to grow a bunch of different jalapeños to determine our favorite to grow in our gardens. We'll discuss the plants, yield, flavor, heat and more and each pick our favorites!

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Goliath:

Lemon Spice:

Jalafuego:

Jedi:

Jalmundo:

El Jefe:

Purple Jalapeño:

Jaloro:

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0:00 Intro
0:51 Jalmundo
2:38 Goliath
3:51 El Jefe
5:27 NuMex Lemon Spice
7:29 Jedi
8:45 Purple jalapeño
10:31 Jaloro
12:21 Jalafuego
13:46 And the winner is...?

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[Igardenandcook]

My NuMex Lemon Spice plants (3) are very healthy without pest issues. I’m planning on growing a lot of these next year. Beautiful color to add in pico. -North Carolina Thank you for doing this comparison!

[steveunknown]

If you grow basil next to your pepper plants bugs that will eat them usually won't touch them because they hate the smell of Basil

[thPwnaor]

I’d love to see one comparing ripe versions of many different varieties

[PacificGardening]

Need more of these comparisons. I love this & the Cayenne videos

[theeffete]

Would be nice to see a follow-up video where you try different varieties prepared as well (sautéed, roasted, pickled, etc).

[debbielarsen]

This is exactly the kinda video I've always hoped you guys would do. I'm a huge jalapeno lover and am so curious about the varieties.

[holophrazeinikos]

My favorite is you guys doing these videos-super entertaining.

I force my wife to do tastings like these, but I usually grow very hot varieties so the tastings are shorter than this-Haha

[thagingerninjer]

I grew purple jalapeños last year for the first time, and they were EXTREMELY prolific. I had hundreds of them off two plants. It was wild. They were way hotter than the mammoth jalapeños and got bananas I grew. I pickled most of them, and the purple was washed off of them by the vinegar, so I wound up with green jalapeño slices and rose colored brine. I’ve never seen anything like it. They were great. I use them instead of pickle relish on hotdogs and sloppy joes.

[SAVbeebse]

What a great idea for a video and we’ll done. I agree, you guys are both very informative and entertaining. Keep up the good work, we all really appreciate it!

[fgj]

I'm new to growing peppers, and these videos are very helpful. Especially, alongside your more in garden educational style videos. This video, in particular, helped me expand my knowledge of varieties, and gives me ideas on what to grow next. I'm not sure what type of jalapenos I'm currently growing, as I pulled the seeds from some store bought peppers, so I'll definitely be looking to figure that out as well. Thank you for your great videos!

[lynnlovessoil]

I grew jalafuego this year. Was very prolific and the hottest jalapeño I have grown. My husband loves them. Might have to try the goliath variety next year.

[bobfixes]

It would have been interesting to end the test with a brief comparison of the ripe vs the unripe otherwise, since I like to stuff them, I think I'll try the Goliath if I can find them. Nice video.
Oh yeah, my cayenne peppers came in pretty well up here in Mass but I buy the 6-pack from the nursery. One of the six was not the same with lots of small leaves, lots of buds/flowers but very few peppers about one inch long. It looks like a chile, and just as hot, but dwarfed compared to the 3-4" size from the other plants. Truth be told, I like the Portuguese hots better than cayenne as they have more flavor and a bit less heat.

[khaledali]

I love the Jalapeno flavour, but I didn't know that, there were many varieties. Informative video, thank you very much

[LeightonSmithiii]

Great video! I highly recommend growing the Zapotec Jalapeño just for its historical significance alone. An heirloom with great flavor and heat, too.

[krussell]

I would also like to see a version comparing the ripe varieties. The flavor can change so much. I grow the colorful versions to bring variety in the garden so barring the end of season stripping of the plants before that first frost, I harvest peppers when they are fully ripe and changed colors.

[TroyBrinson]

Take this with a grain of salt but in my experience ripe peppers usually lose the aldehyde taste that green peppers have. I think it is most prominent in Sweet Peppers. maybe that is the case in hot peppers too! I see that a lot of your peppers have some that have completely ripe and maybe you should try tasting ripe versus unripe. Good luck!

[sirbixalot]

The Goliath is my favorite. I love the San Joaquin too, super thick walls and great flavor

[nicholas]

perfect timing on this video for me, I have been buying and picking jelopenos from Walmart, Superstore (Canada), and a local butcher that sells lots of pickling vegetables, and started saving the seeds from the larger better tasting ones and used your hot banana pickling recipes. I plan on doing this with banana peppers too, got find the right one!

[SZbooyaka]

This is my first year with the Zapotec jalapeño and it is fast growing, early flowering/fruiting, prolific, resistant to end rot, produces well indoors and outdoors, has full jalapeño clover and high heat (for a jalapeño). I love it!

[MichaelRei]

I like them all! Jalapeños are my favorite pepper!Although I’ve never tried them on creese and chackers that might be good!