Shishito
Open-pollinated pepper
- Breeding
- Open-pollinated
- Growth habit
- -
- Days to maturity
- 60-65 days 2 sources, none independent · basis unstated
- Fruit
- green
- 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
A Japanese frying pepper picked green and blistered whole in a hot pan. Roughly one pod in ten carries noticeable heat, a lottery that is half the appeal.
Measurements
| Measurement | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Days to maturity | 60-65 days | Consensus range across the cited commercial catalogs; no independent source documents it yet. |
| Scoville heat | 50-200 SHU | Occasional pods run substantially hotter |
| Pod length | 7-10 cm |
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 99% 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 75% of the 249 peppers we hold a figure for.
shorter than 63% of the 27 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
Gernika
60-75 days
- open-pollinated
Cubanelle
65-75 days
- heirloom
Friggitello
62-75 days
- F1 hybrid
Hot Sunset
60-75 days
- open-pollinated
Hungarian Sweet Wax
60-75 days
- open-pollinated
NuMex Suave Orange
85-95 days
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Sources & References
Evidence: 2 sources, all seed catalogs. No independent reference documents this yet.
- Johnny's Selected Seeds catalog · Johnny's Selected Seeds, Seed Catalog
- Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds catalog · Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Co., Seed Catalog