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Pepper variety

Aurora

Open-pollinated pepper

Breeding
Open-pollinated
Growth habit
-
Days to maturity
70-90 days
1 seed catalog · basis unstated
Fruit
bicolor
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.

Commonly confused with

These are different varieties. A name shared between them does not make them the same seed.

Origin & history

A compact ornamental whose pods move through lavender, peach and orange to red, held upright above small dark leaves.

Measurements

MeasurementValueContext
Days to maturity 70-90 days
Scoville heat 30,000-50,000 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.

Days to maturity 70-90 days · ranked at its midpoint, 80
55 median 82.5 155

earlier than 62% 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.

Scoville heat 30000-50000 SHU · ranked at its midpoint, 40,000
0 median 5,000 1,900,000

hotter than 72% of the 249 peppers we hold a figure for.

Production systems

Described as suited to

Container inherits the record’s sources

A claim about the seed, from the sources this record cites. A system not listed here has not been ruled out; no source addressed it.

Grown in trials under

Not recorded in any trial we hold.

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.

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Sources & References

Evidence: 1 source, all seed catalogs. No independent reference documents this yet.

  1. Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds catalog · Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Co., Seed Catalog