Melrose
Heirloom pepper
- Breeding
- Heirloom
- Growth habit
- -
- Days to maturity
- 70-85 days 1 community collection · 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.
Origin & history
An Italian-American frying pepper kept alive in the Melrose Park neighbourhood of Chicago by immigrant families, and one of the clearest cases of a variety preserved by a community rather than a company.
Measurements
| Measurement | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Days to maturity | 70-85 days | |
| Scoville heat | 0 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 71% 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 100% 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
Doux des Landes
70-85 days
- heirloom
Yellow Nardello
75-90 days
- heirloom
Corno di Toro Giallo
75-90 days
- heirloom
Fushimi
70-85 days
- F1 hybrid
Italia
55-75 days
- heirloom
Manganji
70-90 days
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Sources & References
Evidence: 1 source, all community collections. No independent reference documents this yet.
- Seed Savers Exchange catalog & variety histories · Seed Savers Exchange, Community Collection