Bullnose Large Bell
Heirloom pepper
- Breeding
- Heirloom
- Growth habit
- -
- Days to maturity
- 68-80 days 2 sources, none independent · 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.
Commonly confused with
These are different varieties. A name shared between them does not make them the same seed.
- different variety
Bull Nose
Strains sold as Bull Nose vary; this is the large sweet bell form recorded in the historic American seed trade.
Origin & history
A large sweet bell recorded in American gardens since the eighteenth century and grown by Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, making it among the oldest peppers still in cultivation here.
Measurements
| Measurement | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Days to maturity | 68-80 days | |
| Scoville heat | 0-500 SHU | Mostly sweet, but the ribs on this old line can carry faint heat, which modern bells have had bred out entirely. |
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 78% 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
- F1 hybrid
Archimedes
60-80 days
- F1 hybrid
Big Bertha
70-75 days
- heirloom
Bull Nose
65-80 days
- open-pollinated
California Wonder
70-75 days
- open-pollinated
Emerald Giant
72-80 days
- F1 hybrid
Intruder
63-78 days
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Sources & References
Evidence: 2 sources, 1 seed catalog and 1 community collection. No independent reference documents this yet.
- Victory Seeds variety histories · Victory Seed Company, Seed Catalog
- Seed Savers Exchange catalog & variety histories · Seed Savers Exchange, Community Collection