Hungarian Sweet Wax
Open-pollinated pepper
- Breeding
- Open-pollinated
- Growth habit
- -
- Days to maturity
- 60-75 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.
Commonly confused with
These are different varieties. A name shared between them does not make them the same seed.
- different variety
Hungarian Hot Wax
Sweet and hot wax peppers look identical on the plant. Only tasting or a reliable seed source separates them.
Origin & history
The sweet counterpart to Hungarian Hot Wax, identical in pod shape and colour and impossible to tell apart by eye, which makes mislabelled seed a genuine problem.
Measurements
| Measurement | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Days to maturity | 60-75 days | |
| Scoville heat | 0 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.
earlier than 94% 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 100% 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
Cubanelle
65-75 days
- heirloom
Friggitello
62-75 days
- F1 hybrid
Hot Sunset
60-75 days
- open-pollinated
Hungarian Hot Wax
65-70 days
- heirloom
Jimmy Nardello
75-85 days
- open-pollinated
Shishito
60-65 days
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Sources & References
Evidence: 1 source, all seed catalogs. No independent reference documents this yet.
- Victory Seeds variety histories · Victory Seed Company, Seed Catalog