Peter Pepper
Heirloom pepper
- Breeding
- Heirloom
- Growth habit
- -
- Days to maturity
- 90-120 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.
Origin & history
An American heirloom notorious for a pod shape that made it a novelty long before it was a crop. Genuinely hot and genuinely old, and a reminder that seed savers keep varieties for reasons that are not always horticultural.
Measurements
| Measurement | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Days to maturity | 90-120 days | |
| Scoville heat | 10,000-30,000 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 76% 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 65% 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
Ají Cristal
90-110 days
- heirloom
Ají Omnicolor
90-120 days
- heirloom
Ají Rojo
100-120 days
- heirloom
Pasilla de Oaxaca
90-120 days
- heirloom
Ají Amarillo
100-120 days
- heirloom
Ají Amarillo Grande
100-130 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