Description
AAS WINNER DETAILS
Winner Type: National
Class: Pepper
Variety Name: Cornito Giallo F1
Genus: Capsicum
Species: annuum
Year: 2016
Common Name: Pepper
Type: Edible – Vegetable
Breeder: Johnny’s Selected Seeds
Close Market Comparison: Yellow Crest F1, Mama Mia Giallo F1
PLANT NEEDS
Duration Type: Annual
Light Needs: Full sun
Water Needs: Normal
Season Type: Warm season
Staking Required: No
PLANT CHARACTERISTICS
Foliage Color: Green
Plant Habit: Upright
Plant Height: 24 inches
Fruit Color (Harvest): Yellow
Fruit Shape: Cone
Fruit Size: 6 inches x 2 inches
Fruit Weight: 4-5 ounces
Fruit Flavor Description: Sweet Italian frying pepper with outstanding flavor raw, cooked, and fire-roasted.
Number Of Fruits Per Plant: 25-35
IN THE GARDEN
Container: Yes
Garden Spacing: 18 inches
Days To Harvest (Direct Sowing Seed): Not recommended
Days To Harvest (Transplant): 75 days
Plant Spread: 18 inches
HOW TO GROW
Sow seeds 8 weeks prior to transplanting. Pepper seeds should be planted 1/4″ deep in a fine-textured seed-starting mix or vermiculite to provide good drainage.
Bottom heat of 80–90°F/27–32°C is essential for pepper germination. Seeds will germinate in 7–8 days at that temperature; at lower temps, germination is slower, erratic, and percentage germination is reduced.
AAS Winners
M.L. –
Five Stars! One of my favorite plants this year (others include Fairy Tale eggplant and Gretel eggplant). I started these from seed, and grew this plant in a self-watering earth box style container with a few other kinds of peppers. It has been very productive and we can’t believe how sweet the peppers are. My family eats them fresh off the plant. Even when just showing a small hint of yellow/orange, they taste like candy. I didn’t stake it, and even though it isn’t very tall, next year I will. (Zone 6b, Boston, MA)