Morita
Heirloom pepper
- Breeding
- Heirloom
- Growth habit
- -
- Days to maturity
- 70-85 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.
Also known as
| Name | Kind | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Chipotle | Shared name (ambiguous) | Chipotle is smoke-dried ripe jalapeño. Morita is one curing style of it, not a separate plant. |
Commonly confused with
These are different varieties. A name shared between them does not make them the same seed.
- different variety
Jalapeño M
Morita names a smoked preparation of ripe jalapeño-type pods rather than a distinct cultivar.
Origin & history
A jalapeño-type pod grown to full red and smoked briefly, so it stays soft and purplish rather than drying hard like the tan chipotle meco. Recorded here as a cultivar type, but the name properly describes a curing style.
Measurements
| Measurement | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Days to maturity | 70-85 days | |
| Scoville heat | 2,500-8,000 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 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.
hotter than 50% 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
Ancho San Luis
80-100 days
- heirloom
Baklouti
80-95 days
- F1 hybrid
Biker Billy Jalapeño
70-85 days
- heirloom
Byadgi
80-110 days
- heirloom
Cascabel
80-100 days
- heirloom
Chervena Chushka
75-90 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