Kandil Dolma bell pepper is a staple stuffing sweet pepper in Turkey’s cuisine. Its thin walls and small size makes it a great choice for dolma recipes. Fruits are crunchy and flavorful, and when they are cooked, they perfectly absorb all the flavors of the meal’s other ingredients through their thin walls. Plants are very productive and early.
This is one of our Turkish community’s favorite sweet pepper seeds to cook flavorful meals!
Our current seed stock was grown on Sylvan Roots Farm in Morgantown, WV.
Also check out Pul Biberlik Antep if you prefer to use a hot pepper for your stuffing recipes.
Packet has min. 25 seeds
Commercially introduced by us in the U.S.
Phonetically pronounced: kan-deal
- Capsicum annuum
- Full sun
- Planting depth: 1/4″
- Sprouts in 10-14 days
- Ideal growing temperature: 75-95F
- Plant spacing: 18″
- Frost hardy: No
- Growth habit: Upright growth with short or long branches that grow away from the stem
- Growing tips: Start sweet pepper seeds indoors in seedling trays or small seedling pots with seed starting soil that has essential nutrients in it, 6-8 weeks prior to last frost. Keep the soil moist for quick germination. Make sure to keep the young sweet pepper seedlings under good light to have strong plants with sturdy, healthy stems and leaves. Transplant after last frost in well-drained, fertile soil enrichened with compost and other amendments. Feed your pepper plants with liquid fertilizer once every two weeks. Water regularly especially in flower stage. Mulch and always water at plant base to minimize disease. Some sweet pepper varieties are taller than others and may need to be tied to a stake so that fruits don’t touch soil and rot.
Ayse O. (verified owner) –
Beautiful and very tasty peppers. Easy to handle in the garden. Good for to cook stuffed pepper.
Didem Ikizoglu (verified owner) –
Katherine M. (verified owner) –
Munire Nilson (verified owner) –
Michael Robinson (verified owner) –
Good yield. Used them in salads because I was too lazy to stuff them.
Ahmet (verified owner) –
Perfect for stuffing, small with think and tender skin
Maral E. (verified owner) –
The sprouting rate of the seeds were excellent, and the plants did well until I planted them. The rest did not go so well, but that had more to do with me neglecting to amend the soil in the raised bed than the seeds themselves.
Michael Robinson (verified owner) –
I grew 3 plants. The pepperes were mild and thin skinned. Great for salads. Next year I hope to use them in dolmas.
George Oliver (verified owner) –
Very productive.
Randal (verified owner) –
Another European favorite.
Eser Belding (verified owner) –
Numan Dogan (verified owner) –
We purchased üç burun and kandil dolma pepper seeds. We had successful germination ( more than 70-80%). We have an organic garden with raised beds. Our garden turned into a small zoo; possum, rabbits, ground hog,.. all trapped and released safely. Did not have much of a harvest due to uninvited veggie eaters.
KATHLEEN GEIGER (verified owner) –
Ipek D. (verified owner) –