Gernika
Heirloom pepper
- Breeding
- Heirloom
- Growth habit
- -
- Days to maturity
- 60-75 days 1 seed catalog · basis unstated
- Fruit
- green
- 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
Padrón
Both are Spanish fry-whole peppers with the same lottery of an occasional hot pod; Padrón is Galician and Gernika Basque.
Origin & history
A small Basque frying pepper picked green and fried whole, sharing with Padrón the trait that an occasional pod comes up hot while the rest are sweet.
Measurements
| Measurement | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Days to maturity | 60-75 days | |
| Scoville heat | 0-1,000 SHU | Most pods are effectively sweet; a minority carry real heat, and which is which cannot be told before eating. |
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 94% 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 68% 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
- heirloom
Friggitello
62-75 days
- open-pollinated
Shishito
60-65 days
- heirloom
Chile Güero Largo
75-95 days
- heirloom
Chimayó
70-90 days
- heirloom
Dixon
70-90 days
- heirloom
Fushimi
70-85 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