Cabai Maruti

Cabai Maruti is an Indonesian rawit variety released in 2013 under Minister of Agriculture decree 076/Kpts/SR.120/D.2.7/8/2013 and associated with PT Agri Makmur Pertiwi. The varietal description lists the pedigree as FLB 10 A/B x FLB 10C, with Junaidi Sungkono recorded as the applicant and Edo Elfrandho as the breeder. It is a hybrid market type selected for heavy fruit set and easy picking, and it has been promoted in Indonesian seed trade as a productive commercial rawit for regular harvest.

Plants are described at about 60 to 80 cm tall with round stems that show green to green-purple colouring, elongated green leaves around 7 to 10.5 cm long and 3 to 4.5 cm wide, and white star-shaped flowers with yellow reproductive parts. The fruit is long and slender, about 6 to 6.5 cm long and 9 to 10 mm wide, with smooth skin about 0.9 to 1 mm thick, a pointed marketable form, and a ripening sequence from pale greenish yellow to orange and finally red. Individual fruit weight is about 1 to 1.5 g.

Maruti is described as beginning to flower at about 30 to 40 days after planting and starting harvest at about 85 to 90 days after planting. The official description gives 300 to 400 fruit per plant, about 320 to 620 g per plant, storage life of 4 to 6 days at 25 to 30°C, and a planting density of about 20,000 to 21,000 plants per hectare. Its main selling point in the varietal description is the smooth fruit surface and the ease of picking at harvest, while breeder and seller material also presents it as a high-yield rawit with potential output around 10 to 15 tonnes per hectare.

In Indonesian cultivation and field work, Maruti appears as a recognised commercial rawit used in production trials and farmer programs. Government and university material records it in cultivation work in Sulawesi and elsewhere, with field measurements showing plants around 66 to 69 cm tall, canopies about 53.5 to 57.5 cm wide, stem diameter about 1.3 to 1.5 cm, leaves around 5.5 to 6.5 cm by 2.5 to 3 mm, and per-plant yield in one trial reaching a little over 400 g under the better treatment. That places Maruti as a distinctly production-oriented Indonesian chilli rather than a landrace or local village strain, with its identity built around a named hybrid pedigree, official release status, and repeated use in agronomic trials and commercial seed distribution.