Mad Hatter
F1 hybrid pepper
- Breeding
- F1 hybrid
- Growth habit
- -
- Days to maturity
- 75-90 days 1 trial programme · 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.
The species here is supported by Peppers: Vegetable and Spice Capsicums. These claims name their own evidence rather than resting on the record's source list as a whole, because a species that distinguishes a variety, or an attribution to a breeding programme, is worth being able to check on its own.
Commonly confused with
These are different varieties. A name shared between them does not make them the same seed.
- different variety
Bishop's Crown
Mad Hatter is a modern hybrid of the bishop's crown pod type, not the open-pollinated landrace.
Origin & history
An All-America Selections winner and one of the very few C. baccatum varieties to reach mainstream American seed racks. Carries the winged bishop's crown pod on a vigorous plant, sweet at the wings with mild heat near the seed.
Measurements
| Measurement | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Days to maturity | 75-90 days | |
| Scoville heat | 500-1,500 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 54% 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 63% 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
Bishop's Crown
100-120 days
- heirloom
Brazilian Starfish
100-120 days
- F1 hybrid
Hot Sunset
60-75 days
- open-pollinated
Juanita
90-120 days
- open-pollinated
NuMex Suave Orange
85-95 days
- heirloom
Ají Cachucha
90-115 days
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Sources & References
Evidence: 2 sources, including 1 independent reference.
- All-America Selections winners database · All-America Selections, Trial Program
- Peppers: Vegetable and Spice Capsicums · CABI (2012), Scholarly Reference