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Rooster Spur Chile Pepper

Quick Facts:

  • Heirloom variety from Mississippi
  • Branchy plants loaded with 1-2" peppers
  • Used to make Rooster Pepper Sausage
  • Great for pickling & drying/grinding
  • 95 days to harvest

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Quantity: Packet (25 Seeds)

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Rooster Spur Chile Pepper

More about Rooster Spur

Capsicum annuum

Rooster Spur is an old family heirloom donated to Seed Savers Exchange by Virgil T. Ainsworth of Laurel, Mississippi.  Reportedly grown by Mr. Ainsworth's family for more than 100 years, the Rooster Spur Pepper was traditionally used to make Rooster Spur Sausage.  Rooster Spur produces bountiful bouquets of small, one to two-inch peppers which blanket the tops of sprawling, highly branched plants.  Firm, hot peppers are excellent for pickling whole or for use in hot sauces.  Can also be dried and ground like cayenne.  Very hot.  Harvests begin approximately 95 days after transplanting.  Each packet contains a minimum of 25 seeds.

Capsicum annuum

Rooster Spur is an old family heirloom donated to Seed Savers Exchange by Virgil T. Ainsworth of Laurel, Mississippi.  Reportedly grown by Mr. Ainsworth's family for more than 100 years, the Rooster Spur Pepper was traditionally used to make Rooster Spur Sausage.  Rooster Spur produces bountiful bouquets of small, one to two-inch peppers which blanket the tops of sprawling, highly branched plants.  Firm, hot peppers are excellent for pickling whole or for us... read more

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Capsicum annuum

Rooster Spur is an old family heirloom donated to Seed Savers Exchange by Virgil T. Ainsworth of Laurel, Mississippi.  Reportedly grown by Mr. Ainsworth's family for more than 100 years, the Rooster Spur Pepper was traditionally used to make Rooster Spur Sausage.  Rooster Spur produces bountiful bouquets of small, one to two-inch peppers which blanket the tops of sprawling, highly branched plants.  Firm, hot peppers are excellent for pickling whole or for use in hot sauces.  Can also be dried and ground like cayenne.  Very hot.  Harvests begin approximately 95 days after transplanting.  Each packet contains a minimum of 25 seeds.

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beth dukes

Exactly what I wanted..Can’t wait to plant them.

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Eric Koch
Definitely need a heat mat

The peppers are germinating, but I am not having the success that other reviewers are having. I'm sure that a plant heat map would lead to it being more successful.

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Robert Harrison
Rooster spur seeds

The rooster spur seeds all germinated. Very pleased with that for sure. Received seeds in the mail, planted them and thay all came up. What more could you ask for, thankyou Thresh seed for your pepper seeds.

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David Jones
More Than Happy

Pepper can be tricky to get going. They require very warm seed starting soil. Having had the optimum conditions, year after year, I STILL never got Rooster Spur's to start with other seed suppliers. I tried Thresh Seed Co. Rooster Spur Pepper seeds and... WOW! EVERY single seed germinated in less than 12 days! I'm sold!

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Jill Kleckner
Fantastic Germination

I had 100% germination with these seeds. Seedlings are looking healthy. I use Rooster Spur peppers to make pepper jelly.

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