Vegetables
Heredity: Open Pollinated

Data specific to Peppers (Edit)
General Type: Other: Prototype of Shishito Type Peppers
Pepper Shape: Cylindrical
Wrinkled
Fruit Length: 3-4 inches
Fruit Width at Shoulders: 1 inch
Fruit Ripening Color Sequence: Green to Red
Days to First Harvest and Maturity: 55-60 green
Wall Thickness: Thin
Scoville Heat Units (approximate SHU): Most = 0 shu. but up to 10% may have mild heat.
Heat: Sweet<100SHU

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Shrub
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Plant Height: 24-30 inches
Fruit: Showy
Uses: Vegetable
Suitable as Annual

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Common names
  • Sweet Pepper
Also sold as:
  • Shishito Green
  • Wrinkled Old Man

Photo Gallery
Location: Ingleside. Illinois
Date: 2021-07-24
Location: All pictures taken in/on my gardens/greenhouse/property
Date: 2019-09-11
Location: Fairfax, VA
Location: my garden zone 5 Indiana
Date: 2020-10-04
Location: full sun - zone 7
Date: 2019-10-30
Location: Long Island, NY 
Date: July 2019
Location: Long Island, NY 
Date: Seotember 2018
Location: Long Island, NY 
Date: 2017-08-02

Date: 2017-09-03
Location: Stroudsburg, PA
Date: 2019-07-21
Shishito pepper plant in greenhouse July 2019
Location: Fairfax, VA | July, 2022
Date: 2022-07-04
Location: Long Island, NY 
Date: July 2019
Location: Long Island, NY 
Date: 2017-08-12
Location: full sun - zone 7
Date: 2019-10-30

Date: 2020-04-28
Location: Long Island, NY 
Date: 2017-09-27
Location: Long Island, NY 
Date: 2017-09-03

 Photo Courtesy of Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. Used with permissi
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Location: Long Island, NY 
Date: October 2018
Location: Fairfax, VA | April, 2023
Date: 2023-04-14
Location: Long Island, NY 
Date: August 2019
Location: South Alabama
Date: 2020-05-25
A young Shishito pepper plant.
Location: Hendersonville,  NC
Date: 2019-05-11
pruned twice: 11-wk old seedlings
Location: Long Island, NY 
Date: 2017-08-24
Some turning to red.
Location: Long Island, NY 
Date: 2017-07-25
Grilled Cooked Shishito Peppers
Location: Long Island, NY 
Date: August 2019
a bunch of plants
Location: Long Island, NY 
Date: 2016-07-29
Location: Hendersonville,  NC
Date: 2019-05-11
unpruned 11-wk old

Date: 2017-07-15
Location: Long Island, NY 
Date: 2017-07-09

Date: 06-11-2015
Location: Hendersonville,  NC
Date: 2019-07-29
Direct comparison of 2 plants: vertically taller unpruned and hor
Location: Long Island, NY 
Date: 2017-07-25
green peppers
Comments:
  • Posted by Newyorkrita (North Shore, Long Island, NY ) on Jul 27, 2017 2:24 PM concerning plant:
    Shishito peppers are one of the Japanese Peppers that are commonly picked green and eaten whole by grilling or roasting. They taste great green when raw but even better once grilled to a nice char. If left on the plant they will eventually turn red.

    These plants set many, many peppers and just keep on producing fruit.

    Rita on Long Island, NY zone 6B
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