Mulato Isleño
Heirloom pepper
- Breeding
- Heirloom
- Growth habit
- -
- Days to maturity
- 80-100 days 1 seed catalog · basis unstated
- Fruit
- brown
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mulato | Trade name | The name of the dried pod. Fresh it is a poblano type that happens to ripen brown. |
Commonly confused with
These are different varieties. A name shared between them does not make them the same seed.
- different variety
Poblano (Ancho)
Both are poblano-type pods; Mulato ripens brown and dries to mulato, Poblano ripens red and dries to ancho. The mole depends on the difference.
Origin & history
A poblano-type chile selected to ripen chocolate brown rather than red. Dried it becomes mulato, one of the three chiles in mole poblano alongside ancho and pasilla, and it is sweeter and more raisin-like than ancho.
Measurements
| Measurement | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Days to maturity | 80-100 days | |
| Scoville heat | 1,000-3,000 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.
later than 62% 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 56% 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
Chervena Chushka
75-90 days
- open-pollinated
Poblano (Ancho)
75-85 days
- heirloom
Alma Paprika
70-85 days
- heirloom
Fehér Ozon
65-80 days
- heirloom
Florina
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