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.
AAS Winners
AAS Display Garden- River Valley Master Gardeners –
Escamillo is a vigorous grower and produces delightfully sweet and crispy yellow peppers in abundance. Zone 6a
Tim Huffman –
Very healthy root system
Tim Huffman –
Here in SW Florida (usda growing zone 10a), I grow peppers all-year round. These seeds came up fast and resulted in 100% germination.