Vegetables
Heredity: Hybrid

Data specific to Peppers (Edit)
General Type: Bell
Disease Resistance: Tobacco Mosaic Virus
Fruit Length: 4"
Fruit Width at Shoulders: 3"
Fruit Ripening Color Sequence: Other: Lavender to yellow-orange streaks to red
Days to First Harvest and Maturity: 55-60 Lavender, 81 red.
Heat: Sweet<100SHU

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Shrub
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Plant Height: 3 to 4 feet
Plant Spread: 2 feet
Leaves: Evergreen
Fruit: Showy
Flowers: Inconspicuous
Flower Color: White
Flower Time: Summer
Late summer or early fall
Uses: Vegetable
Suitable as Annual
Edible Parts: Fruit
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Propagation: Seeds: Provide darkness
Needs specific temperature
Days to germinate: 8 to 20 days, depending on soil temperature
Depth to plant seed: 1/4 inch
Start indoors
Can handle transplanting
Will not come true from seed
Containers: Suitable in 3 gallon or larger

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Common names
  • Bell Pepper

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Photo by Newyorkrita
Location: Long Island, NY 
Date: July 2018
Location: MoonDance Farm-North Carolina
Date: August 
Plant loaded with various colored peppers
Location: MoonDance Farm-North Carolina
Date: July
Islander peppers--lavender purple stage
Location: Long Island, NY 
Date: July 2018
Location: Long Island, NY 
Date: July 2018
Location: Long Island, NY 
Date: July 2018
Location: Long Island, NY 
Date: July 2018
Location: Long Island, NY 
Date: July 2018
Photo by robertduval14
Location: Long Island, NY 
Date: July 2018
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Comments:
  • Posted by Horseshoe (Efland, NC - Zone 7a) on Oct 11, 2011 10:24 AM concerning plant:
    A must-have in your vegetable garden as well as your "edible landscaping" flower beds. While most bell peppers grow for a period of time in the green stage then turning to their final color (red, orange, yellow, etc) much later in the season Islander is one of the few that begins its growth as a purple/lavender-colored pepper, skipping the green stage. (Immediate color for your salads!)

    Left to mature further the fruit grows on to become orange and eventually bright red, oftentimes showing orange with red streaks during the color change.

    Sweet, delicious, a treat for your eyes as well as your taste buds!

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