Sweet Banana
Open-pollinated pepper
- Breeding
- Open-pollinated
- Growth habit
- -
- Days to maturity
- 65-72 days 2 sources, none independent · basis unstated
- Fruit
- yellow
- 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.
Origin & history
A 1941 All-America Selections winner, the pale yellow tapered pepper that fills pizza jars and sandwich shops, mild enough to eat by the handful.
Measurements
| Measurement | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Days to maturity | 65-72 days | Consensus range across the cited sources, which include both independent references and commercial catalogs. |
| Scoville heat | 0-500 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.
earlier than 88% 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 74% 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
- open-pollinated
Cubanelle
65-75 days
- open-pollinated
Hungarian Sweet Wax
60-75 days
- open-pollinated
Stocky Red Roaster
65-80 days
- open-pollinated
Hungarian Hot Wax
65-70 days
- open-pollinated
Lipstick
53-65 days
- heirloom
Marconi
70-80 days
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Sources & References
Evidence: 2 sources, 1 trial programme and 1 seed catalog. No independent reference documents this yet.
- All-America Selections winners database · All-America Selections, Trial Program
- Victory Seeds variety histories · Victory Seed Company, Seed Catalog