NuMex Mirasol
Open-pollinated pepper
- Breeding
- Open-pollinated
- Growth habit
- -
- Days to maturity
- 80-100 days 1 independent reference · basis unstated
- Fruit
- red
- Weight
- -
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 breeder attribution here is supported by Chile Pepper Institute research and variety releases. 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.
Also known as
| Name | Kind | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Guajillo | Shared name (ambiguous) | Guajillo is the name of the dried pod, and is applied to several mirasol-type cultivars rather than to one. |
Commonly confused with
These are different varieties. A name shared between them does not make them the same seed.
- different variety
Guajillo
NuMex Mirasol is a specific NMSU selection of the type; guajillo names the dried pod of the type generally.
Origin & history
An NMSU selection of the mirasol type, whose name means 'looking at the sun' for the way the pods stand upright on the plant. Dried, the same pod is sold as guajillo.
Measurements
| Measurement | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Days to maturity | 80-100 days |
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.
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
- open-pollinated
NuMex Bailey Piquin
80-100 days
- open-pollinated
Aurora
70-90 days
- heirloom
Bolivian Rainbow
75-95 days
- open-pollinated
Explosive Ember
70-90 days
- heirloom
Facing Heaven
75-95 days
- open-pollinated
Kalocsai Paprika
75-95 days
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Sources & References
Evidence: 1 source, an independent reference.
- Chile Pepper Institute research and variety releases · New Mexico State University, University or Government