Pepper Escamillo F1

2016 AAS Edible – Vegetable Winner

A wonderful sweet taste on a golden yellow pepper makes Pepper Escamillo F1, one of our 2016 AAS Winners. An early bearing pepper plant with a compact habit makes it an ideal choice for any home garden. Gardeners will be captivated with the high yield of peppers per plant and how the fruit itself is held off the ground for easy picking and less rotting. This plant is a winner with its all around qualities of excellent taste either raw, cooked or fire roasted, compact size and high yield.

Description

AAS WINNER DETAILS

Winner Type: National
Class: Pepper
Variety Name: Escamillo F1
Genus: Capsicum
Species: annuum
Year: 2016
Common Name: Pepper
Type: Edible – Vegetable
Breeder: Johnny’s Selected Seeds
Close Market Comparison: Mama Gia Giallo F1, Big Daddy 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: 2.5 feet
Fruit Color (Harvest): Yellow
Fruit Shape: Cone
Fruit Size: 8 inches x 2.5 inches
Fruit Weight: 6 ounces
Number Of Fruits Per Plant: 25-30
Fruit Flavor Description: Sweet Italian frying pepper with outstanding flavor raw, cooked, and fire-roasted.

IN THE GARDEN

Garden Spacing: 18 inches
Days To Harvest (Direct Sowing Seed): Not recommended
Days To Harvest (Transplant): 77
Plant Spread: 24 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.

Growing Tips for Successful Pepper Transplants

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Reviews

AAS Display Garden- River Valley Master Gardeners – 08/16/2018

Escamillo is a vigorous grower and produces delightfully sweet and crispy yellow peppers in abundance. Zone 6a
Tim Huffman – 02/25/2017

Very healthy root system
Tim Huffman – 02/25/2017

Here in SW Florida (usda growing zone 10a), I grow peppers all-year round. These seeds came up fast and resulted in 100% germination.

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