{"id":14,"date":"2020-03-25T19:01:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T19:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wegrowfoods.com\/store\/?post_type=product&#038;p=14"},"modified":"2025-12-16T17:02:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:02:34","slug":"jalapeno-peppers","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/wegrowfoods.com\/store\/product\/jalapeno-peppers\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalapeno Peppers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We Grow Jalapeno Peppers<\/p>\n<p>Sold by the piece or by the pound. Approx 12 &#8211; 15 jalapenos peppers per pound.<\/p>\n<p>Our jalapenos are approximately 4-5 inches long and great for stuffing and grilling or chopping into salsas and sauces. We raise most of our peppers inside of our tunnel where they get warmer temperatures and a longer growing season than out in the field which means more peppers for you.<\/p>\n<p>Jalapeno peppers are a medium-sized chili pepper. A mature jalape\u00f1o chili can have a range of pungency, with <a title=\"Scoville scale\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scoville_scale\">Scoville<\/a> heat units of 3,500 to 3,600.<sup id=\"cite_ref-molecules_5-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> Commonly picked and consumed while still green, it is occasionally allowed to fully ripen and turn red, orange, or yellow. It is wider and generally milder than the similar Serrano pepper.<sup id=\"cite_ref-6\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<div>Skin cracking is a common sight on these peppers and is called jalape\u00f1o corking. It appears as scaring or minor striations on the surface of the pepper skin. When you see jalape\u00f1o skin cracking in this manner, it simply means that it needs to stretch to accommodate the rapid growth of the pepper. Sudden abundance of water combined with plenty of sun will cause the pepper to go on a growth spurt, resulting in corking and is no reason for concern.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Grow Jalapeno Peppers Sold by the piece or by the pound. Approx 12 &#8211; 15 jalapenos peppers per pound. Our jalapenos are approximately 4-5 inches long and great for stuffing and grilling or chopping into salsas and sauces. We raise most of our peppers inside of our tunnel where they get warmer temperatures and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[46,16],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-bulk","7":"product_cat-peppers","9":"first","10":"outofstock","11":"product-type-variable"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wegrowfoods.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wegrowfoods.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wegrowfoods.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wegrowfoods.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wegrowfoods.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wegrowfoods.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wegrowfoods.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wegrowfoods.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}