Golden Cal Wonder Sweet Pepper Seeds For Planting (Capsicum Annuum) 60 Seeds Per Pack

Grow a garden filled with the delicious, mild flavored, Golden Cal Wonder Pepper, from freshly harvested capsicum annuum seeds. Golden Cal Wonder is a thick walled, sweet pepper, with a yellow outer skin. The fruits are bell shaped, displaying 4 lobes, measure roughly 4 to 4.5 inches in diameter. They grow on plants that reach a mature height of 24 to 30 inches tall. Golden Cal wonder is a high yielding variety that can handle mild to cooler temperatures. Production is earlier than the California Wonder variety, only taking 60 days for green bells and 75 to 80 for golden bells.

Sweet Bell Peppers are used in all sorts of culinary dishes, and make a perfect variety for stuffing. Slice them up and add them to a fresh garden salad, or chop them up for stir fry. You can even add slices to a fresh vegetable platter as well. Bell Peppers, like all of our peppers, are annual plants. Annuals will grow quickly from freshly harvested Pepper seeds, produce their fruits through the summer months and will later die with the first frost.

Sowing The Seed

Peppers are best started indoors, in a controlled environment, 6 to 8 weeks prior to the last frost. Sow them in peat pots, at a depth of 1/4” under topsoil. Peat pots will allow you to transplant the entire pot directly into the garden when the weather is warm and will also prevent root shock. Check below for additional info on spacing & growth habits.

Growing Conditions

Pepper plants will thrive in the heat of summer, so they should receive full sunlight for the majority of the day, with temperatures of at least 75F or more. A soil that is rich in organic matter is best, with a pH level of at least 6.2 and 7.0. Also make sure that your sowing medium is well drained, or your plants can wilt due to being waterlogged. Water your pepper seeds daily to provide them with ample amounts of moisture until germination has occurred.

Germination & Growth

Pepper seeds typically take anywhere between 14 to 28 days to germinate. After your seedlings start to grow, they will mature to an estimated height of roughly 24 to 30 inches tall and spread at least 24 inches wide. On average, Pepper plants can be spaced 18 to 24 inches apart from one another, in rows spaced 18 inches apart. These plants do very well when grown directly in the garden, or in large pots and containers as well.

Harvesting Golden Cal Wonder Bell Peppers

Once the plants are established, your fruits will grow to a size of roughly 4 to 4.5 inches in diameter. They ripen from green to yellow, meaning that they are ready for picking. Simply snip or pick the stems an inch from the fruits and eat fresh, or store them by drying, freezing or pickling / canning. Harvest in roughly 60 days for green peppers, or 80 days for yellow.