Hot Pepper Varieties

Hot peppers: Roughly 30,000 to 100,000 SHU: cayenne, tabasco, and the hotter ajis. Used in sauces and dried powders more often than eaten fresh.

Variety	Breeding	Habit	Days	Fruit	Resistance
Ring of Fire	open-pollinated	-	60-65	red	-
Cayennetta	F1 hybrid	-	60-75	red	-
Long Slim Cayenne	open-pollinated	-	70-75	red	-
NuMex Vaquero	open-pollinated	-	70-85	red	-
Explosive Ember	open-pollinated	-	70-90	purple-black	-
Purple Flash	open-pollinated	-	70-90	purple-black	-
Aurora	open-pollinated	-	70-90	bicolor	-
Chinese Five Color	heirloom	-	70-90	bicolor	-
Hidalgo	open-pollinated	-	70-85	red	-
Hinkelhatz	heirloom	-	75-85	red	-
NuMex Twilight	open-pollinated	-	75-90	purple-black	-
Serrano Tampiqueño	heirloom	-	75-90	red	-
Takanotsume	heirloom	-	75-95	red	-
Santaka	heirloom	-	75-95	red	-
Facing Heaven	heirloom	-	75-95	red	-
Barker's Hot	open-pollinated	-	80-90	red	-
Tabasco	heirloom	-	80-100	red	-
Criolla Sella	heirloom	-	80-100	orange	-
Chile de Árbol	heirloom	-	80-100	red	-
Tabaquero	heirloom	-	80-100	red	-
Guntur Sannam	heirloom	-	80-110	red	-
Ají Cristal	heirloom	-	90-110	red	-
Pasilla de Oaxaca	heirloom	-	90-120	red	-
Peter Pepper	heirloom	-	90-120	red	-
Ají Amarillo	heirloom	-	100-120	orange	-
Ají Charapita	heirloom	-	100-130	yellow	-
Ají Rojo	heirloom	-	100-120	red	-
Ají Pineapple	heirloom	-	100-120	yellow	-
Ají Amarillo Grande	heirloom	-	100-130	orange	-
Manzano Rojo	heirloom	-	120-180	red	-
Manzano Amarillo	heirloom	-	120-180	yellow	-
Rocoto Amarillo	heirloom	-	120-180	orange	-
Rocoto Giant Red	heirloom	-	130-180	red	-

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