Padron and Shish!to peppers

BarbJ · April 13, 2012

(OK, wow...The pepper I'm going to talk about has been censored by this forum! Really? Anyway, It's name is Shish*to, and replace the * with an "i" and that's the name. She-she-toe is how you say it. Auto-censor software is sometimes annoying, lol!)

Has anyone grown both these peppers and compared results?
(some background, I'm a veggie buyer at a local garden center)

I grew Shish*to last year and absolutely loved them! Mild and a little spicy with a lovely crispness about these thin walled, quickly maturing little peppers.

This year I've been hearing a lot about Padron pepper, a lot of customers have been asking for them. And I finally found a source for seedlings, so I ordered them for the nursery, and picked up one for myself.

Last night I was reading up on them and apparently through one of those fascinating quirks of fate, these two peppers may be one and the same.

In the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal was one of the few European countries to trade with Japan. The town that grew Padron peppers in Spain, is close to the Portuguese boarder and apparently this pepper was brought with the Portuguese traders to Japan.

Over the centuries apparently the Japanese have bred it to be the Shish*to pepper, little milder than it's Pardron parent, but you still can get the one in 20 that's really spicy, pepper roulette! It's something that happens with Padron's apparently too.

Anyway, I've got my Padron seedling and if the Shish*to is available this year from another supplier like last year, in a couple weeks I'll have both. I'm looking forward to a taste test!

I must say I ate most of my Shish*to's right off the plant last year, wonder if the Padron will be the same. lol!

April 13, 2012	#1
BarbJ Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: California, USA Posts: 154	Padron and Shish!to peppers (OK, wow...The pepper I'm going to talk about has been censored by this forum! Really? Anyway, It's name is Shishto, and replace the with an "i" and that's the name. She-she-toe is how you say it. Auto-censor software is sometimes annoying, lol!) Has anyone grown both these peppers and compared results? (some background, I'm a veggie buyer at a local garden center) I grew Shishto last year and absolutely loved them! Mild and a little spicy with a lovely crispness about these thin walled, quickly maturing little peppers. This year I've been hearing a lot about Padron pepper, a lot of customers have been asking for them. And I finally found a source for seedlings, so I ordered them for the nursery, and picked up one for myself. Last night I was reading up on them and apparently through one of those fascinating quirks of fate, these two peppers may be one and the same. In the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal was one of the few European countries to trade with Japan. The town that grew Padron peppers in Spain, is close to the Portuguese boarder and apparently this pepper was brought with the Portuguese traders to Japan. Over the centuries apparently the Japanese have bred it to be the Shishto pepper, little milder than it's Pardron parent, but you still can get the one in 20 that's really spicy, pepper roulette! It's something that happens with Padron's apparently too. Anyway, I've got my Padron seedling and if the Shishto is available this year from another supplier like last year, in a couple weeks I'll have both. I'm looking forward to a taste test! I must say I ate most of my Shishto's right off the plant last year, wonder if the Padron will be the same. lol!