{"id":8090,"date":"2019-11-28T08:28:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T16:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=8090"},"modified":"2026-03-20T11:47:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T18:47:55","slug":"waialua","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/product\/waialua\/","title":{"rendered":"Waialua"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Grown, sold, and described by <a href=\"http:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/?p=38\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Bunny Hop Seeds<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Time to maturity: midseason<\/li>\n<li>Heat: mild flesh to hot ribs<\/li>\n<li>Approx. number of seeds per pack: 20<\/li>\n<li> Capsicum annuum<\/li>\n<li> Bagged Bloom Seeds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cWaialua\u201d is a great little chile developed by the University of Hawaii. It is ideal for the southeast US as well, where humidity and heat rule in the summer months. Waialua is said to perform better in humid climates than the jalape\u00f1o, and is also stated to have resistance to bacterial wilt and root-knot nematodes. I will grow it in the ground next time to see if this is true for my garden. The fruits are about the size of a regular jalape\u00f1o, but to me the shape and flesh thickness is more like a Fresno chile. I find the flesh to be sweeter than the jalape\u00f1o, but there is definitely heat, which increases if the fruits develop in hot, dry conditions.<br \/>\nThere is some speculation that the Waialua is the same cultivar as what is called the Sweet Hot or Hawaiian Sweet Hot pepper. I can\u2019t say if it or is not. My original seeds came from the University of Hawaii and are labeled as \u201cWaialua.\u201d<br \/>\nAccording to a 1996 article in HortScience, \u201c\u2019Kaala\u2019 and \u2018Waialua\u2019 were the result of a cross between \u2018Chabai Merah\u2019 and \u2018Keystone Resistant Giant\u2019. \u2018Chabai Merah\u2019 is a standard cayenne-type pepper grown in western Malaysia and is highly resistant to bacterial wilt and to root-knot nematode [Meloidogne incognita (Kofoid &#038; White) Chitwood]; it is a very pungent fruit that averages 7.5 to 10 cm in length and 2 cm in diameter. \u2018Keystone Resistant Giant\u2019 is a bell- or sweet-type pepper., and slightly pungent.\u201d The work to produce this BW resistant cultivar took 15 years.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8091,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[69,97,12],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8090","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-medium-very-hot","7":"product_cat-special-humidity-and-heat-tolerant-collection","8":"product_cat-bunny-hop-seeds","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/8090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=8090"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=8090"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=8090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}