Faddas Mustard

Faddas Mustard is an Italian Capsicum chinense hybrid from Giancarlo Fadda’s Faddas Pepper breeding work. It is a mustard-coloured natural variation selected from the Faddas White line, with breeder-linked descriptions stating that the mustard variant emerged from the yellow variation during the 2023 season and was confirmed again the following season. Its place in pepper-growing circles comes from that Faddas lineage, where colour variations and manual-cross selections are a defining part of the breeder’s catalogue.

The variety is tied directly to Faddas White, a Giancarlo Fadda cross of White Ghost x Ghost Jami Yaki, so its core plant type follows that same ghost-leaning chinense form. Plants are green-leaved and typically carry elongated, pendant pods with the bunched, slightly twisted or zigzagged look associated with the Faddas White family. Published Faddas White plant descriptions place the plants at about 40.0 to 70.0 cm tall, with pod length around 7.5 to 10.0 cm and width around 13 to 25 mm, and the mustard form is presented as a colour mutation of that same variety rather than as a different pod type.

Its defining feature is the ripe colour. Seller and breeder descriptions describe the pods as ripening to a green-gold blush commonly called mustard, with some describing the finish as more green with a little rust rather than a bright yellow-brown tone. That colouring is what gives the pepper its identity and separates it from the white and yellow forms in the same family. The overall effect is a darker, earthier-looking superhot that still keeps the elongated ghost-type shape of the Faddas White line.

Flavour descriptions present it as sweet, floral, grassy, and strongly chinense in character, with a very hot burn. Because it is presented as a natural variation of Faddas White rather than a separate mild offshoot, it sits in the same superhot range associated with that line, around 800000 SHU. In grower culture it is valued as a collector’s pepper for its unusual mustard finish, ghost-type pod shape, and its close link to Giancarlo Fadda’s manually developed superhot lines.