Aleppo (Halaby)
Heirloom pepper
- Breeding
- Heirloom
- Growth habit
- -
- Days to maturity
- 80-95 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.
Also known as
| Name | Kind | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Halaby | Synonym | The Arabic name for the same pepper. |
Origin & history
The chile of northern Syria and southern Turkey, traditionally sun-dried and coarsely ground with salt and oil into the flakes that define the region's cooking. Its cultivation was severely disrupted by the Syrian war, and much commercial Aleppo pepper is now grown in Turkey.
Measurements
| Measurement | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Days to maturity | 80-95 days | Consensus range across the cited commercial catalogs; no independent source documents it yet. |
| Scoville heat | 10,000-10,000 SHU | Commonly cited around 10,000 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 59% 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.
hotter than 57% 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
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95-110 days
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90-100 days
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75-85 days
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Piment d'Espelette
80-95 days
- heirloom
Ají Amarillo
100-120 days
- heirloom
Ají Cito
100-130 days
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Sources & References
Evidence: 1 source, all seed catalogs. No independent reference documents this yet.
- Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds catalog · Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Co., Seed Catalog