Ají Dulce
Heirloom pepper
- Breeding
- Heirloom
- Growth habit
- -
- Days to maturity
- 90-110 days 1 seed catalog · basis unstated
- Fruit
- red
- Weight
- -
- Bred by
- -
Grey captions say what stands behind that particular figure. Breeding, growth habit and fruit characters carry no caption because they rest on the record's sources as a whole rather than citing their own; closing that gap is ordinary outstanding work, not a finished job.
The species here is supported by Peppers: Vegetable and Spice Capsicums. These claims name their own evidence rather than resting on the record's source list as a whole, because a species that distinguishes a variety, or an attribution to a breeding programme, is worth being able to check on its own.
Also known as
| Name | Kind | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Ajicito | Synonym | |
| Ají Cachucha | Shared name (ambiguous) | Cachucha and Dulce are used for one another across the Caribbean; the labels do not reliably separate two lines. |
Commonly confused with
These are different varieties. A name shared between them does not make them the same seed.
- different variety
Ají Cachucha
Cachucha and Dulce are used for one another across the Caribbean; recorded separately because the seed lots and regions differ, not because the plants are clearly distinct.
- different variety
Ají Cito
Ají Cito is a hot Peruvian C. baccatum; Ajicito is a sweet Caribbean C. chinense. The names collapse to the same spelling.
Origin & history
The Venezuelan and Caribbean sweet seasoning pepper: habanero aroma with almost no heat, the backbone of sofrito. Proof that C. chinense flavour and C. chinense pungency are separable traits.
Measurements
| Measurement | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Days to maturity | 90-110 days | |
| Scoville heat | 0-1,000 SHU |
Against the rest of the pepper database
Where this variety sits among every pepper we hold a comparable figure for. Position is not merit: earlier is not better than later, and hotter is not better than milder. Only cultivar-level figures are compared, never trial results, and maturity is only ranked against figures counted the same way.
later than 72% of the 252 peppers we hold a figure for. None of these figures state whether they are counted from sowing or from transplant, so they are ranked against each other on the assumption that suppliers use one convention, which is not something any of them says.
milder than 68% of the 249 peppers we hold a figure for.
Traits
Disease resistance
No documented disease resistance, typical of heirlooms and older open-pollinated varieties. See pepper diseases for the cultural playbook that fills the gap.
Related varieties
- heirloom
Trinidad Perfume
90-110 days
- heirloom
Adjuma
90-120 days
- heirloom
Ají Cachucha
90-115 days
- heirloom
Bahamian Goat
90-120 days
- heirloom
Jamaican Hot Chocolate
90-120 days
- heirloom
Naga Morich
100-120 days
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Sources & References
Evidence: 2 sources, including 1 independent reference.
- Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds catalog · Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Co., Seed Catalog
- Peppers: Vegetable and Spice Capsicums · CABI (2012), Scholarly Reference