Fatalii Pepper

If you like heat and you have not tried fatalii, you are missing out on a uniquely charasmatic hot pepper. Slotting somewhere between ghost and habanero, fataliis bring a citrus-tinged fresh-fruit heat that builds quickly and can be overwhelming even for aficionados. Where fataliis shine for us is in both dried and preserved form. The dried pepper adds extraordinary depth of flavor to dishes that carries through and stands out against other flavors. You can always taste the fatalii, even with other, complex ingredients competing on the palate. For bakers, it plays both savory and sweet equally well. Salt-preserved, this pepper brings irresistible briny heat to eggs, pasta primavera... anything that calls for dosable heat where a lemony, pronounced citrus note harmonizes.

If you are not afraid of a little fire, you should grow this pepper. They are fussy sprouters, like many of their hot cousins, but once they're happy in a sunny spot, they will produce abundantly all growing season.

Beautiful, high producing plant. The pepper is best used dried--it is VERY hot, but adds a wonderful flavor. We try to get every year and add it to many dishes throughout the year.

This is an amazing pepper for those who take high heat. Typical heat sits slightly above a standard habanero, but it hits fast and hard. This is a very sharp heat you'll feel mainly on the tongue, and less the slow-building, duller, whole-mouth heat you get with some peppers. But behind that heat is a genuinely unique citrusy flavor that stands out in about any recipe you add it to. I love it in fresh salsa if I'm in the mood to be challenged by the heat, but it's also great in citrusy sauces for things like grilled chicken or seafood, or dried into a uniquely tasting chili powder. Really good in any dish that calls for fruity, citrusy flavors.

The seeds themselves have been great; quick germination for the second year now, and last season's yields were reasonably heavy. I highly recommend this pepper, but only if you enjoy habanero+ level heat.

These are my favorite peppers. I bought one packet and had tons of beautiful peppers. These are super hot and very tasty peppers. You can start them indoors but must move them outside. The plants I had indoors got big but did not produce any peppers even with a special plant light. The plants outside produced tons of peppers. I will buy these seeds again.

I have been buying these peppers from Seed Saver for 5 years. I use them to make a highly demanded hot sauce. Great heat and wonderful flavor. The percentage germination is very high. They create really resilient plants full of peppers from Fall and consistently more as the season progresses even when the weather gets colder, they continue to produce until killing frost. Highly recommended.

Not a single seed sprouted. All other Seed Saver seeds I’ve ordered have been great but couldn’t get a single seedling out of these.

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My first time growing peppers, this year...I decided to try these, but I had about a 60% germination and seedling survival rate overall. They're very slow to sprout, and have been slow to grow overall - I'm not sure if it's just my inexperience, but from what I've read they're a slow grower overall.