As far as i know, black pepper comes from India, Indonesia, SE Asia. I have never heard of it growing here. has anyone done this?
Looks like they’re tropical plants and need temperatures above 65 F year-round, so they’d need to be grown in a greenhouse, but you could do it.
This site says it isn’t grown commercially in the US.
It’s a tropical plant. 6.2% of the world’s pepper exports are grown in Brazil, which is in the Americas, but I think you’re asking about the US. In which case, no, it’s not commercially grown in the US, as it requires a tropical climate. Even the southern parts of Florida, which have a USDA cultivation zone of 10, are not sufficiently hot and wet for black pepper vines, which require a zone of at least 11b.
Apparently even relatively small plants are quite productive, so you could grow them on a sunny windowsill and theoretically harvest a load of peppercorns.
According to this PDF of an article from 1971, Piper nigrum used to be cultivated commercially in Puerto Rico, but no longer is because of a disease called foot rot.
I may have to build a greenhouse so I can grow my own pepper in Northern Colorado.