VegetablePepper
Pretty N Sweet Pepper
Pretty N Sweet Pepper is an AAS-winning hybrid that brings genuine sweetness and visual drama to the garden. This upright plant reaches 18, 24 inches tall and produces abundant conical fruits that mature from green through yellow and orange to brilliant red, giving you a rainbow of harvest options. With zero heat (0 Scoville units) and remarkable tolerance for heat and drought, it matures in 100, 109 days from transplant and thrives across zones 4, 13, making it one of the most adaptable sweet peppers available.
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Growing Conditions
USDA Zone
4-13
Sunlight
Full Sun
Water
Moderate
Soil
Well-drained, Fertile Loam With Organic Matter
Growth Stats
24 in
Height
TypeUpright
Spacing
18
Plant Profile
Sunlight
Full Sun
Water
Moderate
Zones
4-13
Size
24in H x ?in W
Growth
—
Care
Moderate
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Highlights
The combination of heat and drought tolerance sets this hybrid apart in the sweet pepper world, allowing it to perform reliably even in challenging summers without constant babying. The profusion of conical fruits means you'll harvest armfuls rather than handfuls, and the flexibility to pick them yellow, orange, or red gives you control over sweetness and appearance. It's equally comfortable in containers, raised beds, or in-ground gardens, making it genuinely adaptable to any growing setup.
Common Uses
These sweet peppers are excellent sliced raw into salads or served as crudités, where their genuine sweetness and tender texture shine. They roast beautifully, developing deeper sweetness and a silky interior when charred. The abundant harvest makes them ideal for preserving, roasting and freezing, or packing into vinegars and oils for pantry staples.
Growing Timeline
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Care Instructions
Start Indoors
Start seeds indoors 6, 8 weeks before your last spring frost. Sow seeds 1/4 inch deep in warm soil (70, 80°F) and keep consistently moist until germination, which typically occurs in 7, 14 days. Maintain warmth and bright light once seedlings emerge.
Transplant Outdoors
Transplant outdoors after your last frost date when soil temperature has reached 60, 65°F. Harden off seedlings by gradually exposing them to outdoor conditions over 7, 10 days. Space plants 18 inches apart in rows 36 inches apart.
Harvesting
Begin harvesting 100, 109 days after transplanting. You can pick peppers at any stage of ripeness, they're sweet at yellow, sweeter at orange, and sweetest at full red maturity. Harvest by gently twisting and pulling, or cut with shears to avoid damaging the plant. The prolific fruit production means you'll have continuous harvests over many weeks if you pick regularly.
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Companion Planting
Pests & Diseases
Ecology & Traits
Edible
Scientific Classification
Capsicum annuum
Family
Solanaceae
Genus
Capsicum
Growth Habit
Upright
Native Status
L48 (NI)HI (I)PR (I)VI (I)
History & Origin
“Pretty N Sweet was recognized as an AAS (All-America Selections) winner in 2015, an honor given to exceptional new varieties that prove superior in trials across diverse growing regions. This F1 hybrid represents deliberate breeding for a specific combination of traits: genuine sweetness with zero heat, compact upright growth suited to small spaces, and the environmental resilience needed for modern home gardens. The AAS designation signals that seed breeders developed it to meet real gardener needs, not just novelty.”