Cheongyang
F1 hybrid pepper
- Breeding
- F1 hybrid
- Growth habit
- -
- Days to maturity
- 70-90 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.
Commonly confused with
These are different varieties. A name shared between them does not make them the same seed.
- different variety
Korean Gochu
Cheongyang is a modern hot hybrid; gochu is the traditional milder field pepper grown for flake.
Origin & history
A Korean hybrid developed in the 1980s and far hotter than the traditional gochu, now the standard hot pepper in Korean cooking and eaten fresh with soybean paste.
Measurements
| Measurement | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Days to maturity | 70-90 days | |
| Scoville heat | 10,000-23,000 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.
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.
hotter than 61% 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
Ají Rico
55-75 days
- heirloom
Baklouti
80-95 days
- F1 hybrid
Biker Billy Jalapeño
70-85 days
- heirloom
Byadgi
80-110 days
- heirloom
Costeño Amarillo
80-100 days
- heirloom
Erjingtiao
80-100 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