Red Biquinho Pepper Live Plants – Sweet Teardrop Peppers

Grow sweet, fruity peppers with a distinctive little beak. Red Biquinho pepper plants bring ornamental charm to your garden and flavorful bite-size peppers to your kitchen, perfect for pickling, garnishing, and enjoying fresh.

Small Peppers, Big Personality

Biquinho means “little beak” in Portuguese, a nod to the pointed tip of these teardrop-shaped Brazilian peppers. Their sweet, fruity, peppery flavor makes them a flavorful choice when you want pepper character without intense heat. Heat levels can vary with growing conditions.

• Variety: Red Biquinho, also called Sweet Teardrop pepper.
• Botanical name: Capsicum chinense.
• Fruit: Small, beaked peppers approximately 1 inch long, ripening red.
• Flavor: Sweet and fruity with generally very little heat.
• Garden use: Vegetable beds, patio pots, and edible ornamental plantings.

What You Will Receive

This listing is for live pepper plants, not seeds. Choose the 1 PLANT or 3 PLANTS option before adding to your cart. Plant size and appearance vary naturally.

Planting and Care

• When to plant: Move outdoors after frost danger has passed and temperatures are consistently warm.
• Acclimation: Gradually introduce plants to outdoor sunlight and conditions before transplanting.
• Light: Choose a sunny growing location.
• Soil: Use well-draining soil enriched with compost. For pots, choose a container with drainage holes.
• Water: Water thoroughly after planting, then maintain even moisture without leaving the roots waterlogged.
• Ongoing care: Mulch around the plants, keeping mulch away from the stems, and feed as needed with a fertilizer suitable for vegetables.
• Cold protection: Protect plants from frost and cold conditions.

Harvest and Enjoy

Allow peppers to develop their red color before harvesting. Snip fruit from the plant to avoid damaging the branches. Add the small peppers to salads, use them as colorful garnishes, or pickle a batch to keep their sweet, fruity flavor close at hand. Harvest timing depends on plant maturity, warmth, sunlight, and growing conditions.