NuMex Suave Orange
Open-pollinated pepper
- Breeding
- Open-pollinated
- Growth habit
- -
- Days to maturity
- 85-95 days 1 independent reference · basis unstated
- Fruit
- orange
- Weight
- -
- Bred by
- NMSU Chile Pepper Institute The Chile Cultivars of New Mexico State University, 1913-2022 (Circular 706) and Chile Pepper Institute research and variety releases
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. The breeder attribution here is supported by The Chile Cultivars of New Mexico State University, 1913-2022 (Circular 706) and 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.
Commonly confused with
These are different varieties. A name shared between them does not make them the same seed.
- different variety
NuMex Suave Red
The two Suave releases are separate lines differing in ripe colour, not one variety with colour forms.
Origin & history
NMSU's mild habanero, released in 2004 to give cooks the Capsicum chinense aroma at roughly one percent of habanero heat, arriving a decade before Habanada took the idea to zero.
Measurements
| Measurement | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Days to maturity | 85-95 days | Consensus range across the cited independent references. |
| Scoville heat | 335 SHU | Cultivar mean measured by high-performance liquid chromatography and published in NMSU Circular 706. |
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 69% 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
- open-pollinated
Habanada
85-95 days
- open-pollinated
NuMex Suave Red
90-110 days
- open-pollinated
Shishito
60-65 days
- open-pollinated
7 Pot Brain Strain
100-120 days
- open-pollinated
7 Pot Douglah
100-120 days
- open-pollinated
7 Pot Primo
100-130 days
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Sources & References
Evidence: 3 sources, all independent references.
- Chile Pepper Institute research and variety releases · New Mexico State University, University or Government
- Peppers: Vegetable and Spice Capsicums · CABI (2012), Scholarly Reference
- The Chile Cultivars of New Mexico State University, 1913-2022 (Circular 706) · New Mexico State University Chile Pepper Institute (2023-02), University or Government