Is XL Newmex Chili hot?
It is listed as mild. Expect gentle New Mexico chile warmth rather than jalapeno or superhot intensity.
Kitchen Pepper
XL Newmex Chili is for cooks who want big, thick-walled New Mexico-style roasting peppers for green chile, red sauce, stuffing, drying, and fire-roasted strips without turning the whole dish into a heat challenge.
CASA VERDE · HEAT PROFILE
Mild
- Sweet
- Mild — this variety
- Medium
- Hot
- Super hot
Scoville range awaiting confirmation.
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.
No numeric marker is shown without a sufficiently clear range. For bundles, the highlighted categories refer to the different varieties.
A Scoville range has not been listed for this variety.
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Growing guides
Ships from Québec
- Packet
- 10+ Seeds per Packet
- Maturity
- About 75-85 days from transplant
- Germination
- Warm soil, ideally 24-29 C; heat mat helpful
- Type
- Non-GMO | Open-Pollinated XL Newmex chili pepper
- Plant habit
- Productive annuum plants with large pendant New Mexico-style roasting chiles
- Seed line
- Open-pollinated
- Best for
- Green chile, roasting, stuffing, red chile sauce, salsa, drying powder, stews, burgers, eggs
- Packed for
- Packed for 2026
Start indoors 8-10 weeks before transplanting. Grow in full sun, warm soil, raised beds, containers, or a protected greenhouse spot for best red ripening in short seasons.
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Mild heat · 10+ seeds · 2027 pepper catalogue
XL Newmex Chili Pepper Seeds
XL Newmex Chili is for cooks who want big, thick-walled New Mexico-style roasting peppers for green chile, red sauce, stuffing, drying, and fire-roasted strips without turning the whole dish into a heat challenge.
MildRoasting pepper heat
XL podsLarge Newmex-style chiles
10+ seedsPer packet
75-85 daysFrom transplant
Why Grow It?
Grow XL Newmex Chili when your kitchen wants a true workhorse chile: broad enough to roast and peel, long enough to stuff or cut into strips, and flavourful enough to carry green chile sauce, enchilada sauce, salsa, stews, burgers, eggs, beans, and winter pantry powder. This is the pepper for cooks who think in trays, sauces, and freezer bags.
At A Glance
CropXL Newmex Chili Pepper
SpeciesCapsicum annuum
Heat LevelMild New Mexico chile heat
FlavorGreen chile aroma, gentle warmth, red-ripe sweetness
VisualLarge smooth green pods ripening to deep red
Best UsesRoasting, green chile, red sauce, stuffing, drying, salsa, stews
In The Kitchen
- Fire-roasted green chile: Roast green pods until blistered, peel, chop, and freeze for sauces, eggs, burgers, beans, and stews.
- Red chile sauce: Let pods ripen red for sweeter cooked sauce, enchilada sauce, salsa roja, chile vinegar, and braising bases.
- Stuffing and strips: The XL pod size makes this useful for relleno-style dishes, grilled strips, fajitas, and roasted pepper salads.
- Drying and powder: Ripe red pods can be dried for flakes, powder, rubs, soups, beans, and pantry seasoning.
Growing Notes
- Start early: Sow indoors 8-10 weeks before transplanting.
- Keep warm: Use warm soil, ideally 24-29 C, for steady germination.
- Transplant late: Move outside only after frost risk has passed and nights are reliably warm.
- Support the crop: Stake or cage productive plants as the large fruit load develops.
- Harvest stages: Pick green for classic roasting chile or fully red for sweeter sauce and drying.
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FAQ
Should I harvest it green or red?
Harvest green for classic roasted green chile. Let pods ripen red for sweeter sauce, drying, powder, and cooked chile bases.
What is it best for?
This is a culinary utility pepper: roast it, peel it, stuff it, dry it, freeze it, or cook it into sauce.
Can Canadian growers ripen Newmex chiles?
Yes, but start indoors and use the warmest site you have. Raised beds, black pots, low tunnels, or greenhouse culture help push red ripening in short seasons.
Seed note: Listed as an open-pollinated Newmex-style chili pepper. Large pepper selections can show natural variation in length, shoulder width, curve, and ripening speed. Save seed only from fully ripe fruit on plants that show the XL pod shape and flavour you want to continue.
Cook your harvest
Use your harvest in these recipes. Check the variety notes and substitutions in each recipe.
Start seeds indoors 8-10 weeks before transplanting. Keep soil warm for germination, grow under strong light, harden off carefully, and transplant after frost into full sun. Stake or cage plants if the large fruit load gets heavy.
Use green pods for roasted green chile, chopped freezer chile, burgers, eggs, beans, stews, salsa verde-style sauces, and stuffing. Let pods ripen red for sweeter chile sauce, enchilada sauce, salsa roja, drying, flakes, and powder.
