Hot Pepper 'Big Jim'

Central Phoenix -- Big Jim is a standard for Hatch-style hot chiles and is the best I've ever tried. I used to grow it in Albuquerque, w...Read Morehere it did spectacularly. Here in Phoenix it is not quite as vigorous, but it usually survives the summer heat and survives the winter with protection and often without protection. I have occasionally had two year old plants. Unlike NM where each plant would bear prolifically, here I get only a dozen or so peppers from a plant in the fall through winter and perhaps a few in the spring. Other Hatch-style hot pepper varieties do poorly for me here.

A 75-80 day giant chili (12 inches) developed by New Mexico State University.