Big Red

Big Red, often sold as Big Red Bell Pepper, is a sweet Capsicum annuum producing large, blocky, thick fleshed fruit that ripen from green to deep red. It is marketed as an heirloom type in multiple seed listings.

Plants typically reach about 45.5 to 61.0 centimetres in height. Pods are pendant and blocky, generally about 7.5 to 12.5 centimetres long and 7.5 to 10.0 centimetres wide. Some catalogues narrow the fruit size to approximately 11.0 centimetres by 8.0 centimetres, which falls within the broader reported range.

The fruit is consistently described as very sweet with thick walls, suited to fresh use including salads and especially stuffing.

There are transparency issues with this name. Big Red is a generic name and is sometimes confused online with other unrelated red peppers. Some sellers label it heirloom, while others simply describe it as open pollinated without documented breeder or release history. There is no clear, traceable breeding record tied specifically to this name, and earlier printed catalogue evidence is difficult to verify.

Big Red is a sweet bell pepper with no detectable pungency. A value of 0 SHU is used in line with sweet bell classification.