Kitchen Pepper
The Orange Long Glow Bell Pepper is a unique twist on the classic bell 🫑. Instead of blocky fruits, this rare heirloom produces elongated, lantern-like bells 📏🟠 with a striking orange glow when ripe. Sweet, juicy, and crisp, it’s a...
CASA VERDE · HEAT PROFILE
Sweet
- Sweet — this variety
- Mild
- Medium
- Hot
- Super hot
Understanding the heat
A diamond marks the midpoint of a listed range, or the listed value when only one number is given. An arrow marks a stated limit. These are variety guides, not measurements of our seed lot. This guide uses unequal numerical bands: sweet 0; mild up to 10,000; medium 10,000–50,000; hot 50,000–800,000; super hot from 800,000 SHU (display capped at 3 million). Heat varies between fruits and with growing conditions.
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- Heat
- 0–0 SHU
- Season
- 2026
CASA VERDE · GROWER’S NOTES
Get to know your pepper.
🟠 Orange Long Glow Bell Pepper
Capsicum annuum
The Orange Long Glow Bell Pepper is a unique twist on the classic bell 🫑. Instead of blocky fruits, this rare heirloom produces elongated, lantern-like bells 📏🟠 with a striking orange glow when ripe. Sweet, juicy, and crisp, it’s a showpiece in the garden and a versatile player in the kitchen.
👅 Flavor Profile:
Mild 🍯, fruity 🍊, and refreshing 💦 with a crunch that holds up raw or cooked. Zero heat 🌶❌.
🍴 Culinary Uses:
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🥗 Slice fresh for salads, crudité, or snacking
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🧀 Stuff with grains, cheeses, or meats for a dramatic presentation
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🔥 Roast or grill to caramelize sweetness and deepen flavor
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🫙 Preserve in oil, pickled strips, or relishes
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🍝 Add to pasta dishes, stir-fries, and grain bowls
👨🍳 Chef’s Pitch:
Orange Long Glow peppers are elegant workhorses 👨🍳✨. Their elongated bell shape makes them ideal for refined stuffed pepper dishes, while their vivid orange color pops on antipasto boards and roasted platters. Sweet flavor + stunning form = chef’s plating dream.
🌱 Growing Notes:
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🪴 Sturdy, productive plants
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📏 Fruits are elongated bells, 4–6 inches long
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🎨 Ripen green 💚 ➡️ glowing orange 🟠
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⏱ Mid-season, steady harvests
🌶 Scoville Heat Units (SHU): 0 — sweet pepper, no heat.
Cook your harvest
Use your harvest in these recipes. Check the variety notes and substitutions in each recipe.
Start indoors 8–10 weeks before last frost. Germinate at 26–30 °C on a heat mat; peppers stall below 22 °C. Pot up to 10–15 cm before hardening off outside after nights stay above 12 °C.
Feed balanced through bloom, then bump potassium for fruiting. Stake taller varieties. More detail in our full Canadian growing guide.
Match the pepper to the technique: thin-walled varieties blister fast in a hot pan; thick-walled ones roast or stuff beautifully; fruit-forward ones make balanced sauces and pickles. The variety's flavour profile is your shortcut — see Choosing the right pepper for a use-case guide.
