Notes
Bottom heat to germ. Carmen is the market-garden standard frying pepper. Pick turning color.
Cultivars / Solanaceous
Early Jalapeño
Pepper · Capsicum annuum
DTM
65 d
159 d occupancy · tender
Rows
2
12 in in-row
Density
2
plants / bed-ft
Yield
2.2
lb / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$8.91
$4.50 / lb
Propagation
- Method
- Transplant
- Cell size
- 72s
- Nursery lead
- 56 d
- Germination
- 10 d
- Germ temp
- 65°F – 90°F (opt 80°F)
- Seed spacing
- 12 in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 2
- In-row
- 12 in
- Seed spacing
- 12 in
- Plants / linear ft
- 2
- Plants / 50 ft
- 100
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 65 d
- Holding
- 45 d
- Occupancy
- 159 d
- Multicut
- yes · 8 cuts · 7 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1
- Frost hardiness
- Tender
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- lb
- Units / bed-ft
- 2.2
- Avg unit wt
- 1 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 2.2 lb
- Cull rate
- 10%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $2.75 / $4.50
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 2
- Emitter spacing
- 8 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.5
- Weekly water
- 1.4 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 75
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 109.1
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Heavy
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 2 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.6 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 2.8 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 1 / 0.3 / 1.4 lb
- Family
- Solanaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-04-15 → 2026-09-06
- First greenhouse
- 2026-02-18
- First harvest
- 2026-06-19
- Successions that fit
- 1 · every — d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 26 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 118 seeds · 100 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $272.25 / $445.50
Companions
basil · tomato · onion
Avoid
fennel