Cubanelle
Open-pollinated pepper
- Breeding
- Open-pollinated
- Growth habit
- -
- Days to maturity
- 65-75 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
The pale yellow-green frying pepper of Cuban and Puerto Rican cooking, thin-walled and mild, used at the unripe stage far more often than red.
Measurements
| Measurement | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Days to maturity | 65-75 days | Consensus range across the cited commercial catalogs; no independent source documents it yet. |
| Scoville heat | 100-1,000 SHU | Usually eaten green and effectively sweet |
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 87% 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 65% 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
Hungarian Sweet Wax
60-75 days
- open-pollinated
Stocky Red Roaster
65-80 days
- heirloom
Doux des Landes
70-85 days
- F1 hybrid
Italia
55-75 days
- heirloom
Jimmy Nardello
75-85 days
- open-pollinated
Lipstick
53-65 days
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Sources & References
Evidence: 2 sources, all seed catalogs. No independent reference documents this yet.
- Tomato Growers Supply catalog · Tomato Growers Supply Company, Seed Catalog
- Victory Seeds variety histories · Victory Seed Company, Seed Catalog