About this variety
Jay Weaver did not set out to breed this. He spotted one odd pale pod growing among the Ghost Peppers and Trinidad Scorpions at Meadow View Farm in Pennsylvania, saved the seed from it, and spent about five seasons selecting it into something worth naming. The pods ripen through cream and blush to a soft peach, heavily wrinkled and usually finished with a scorpion tail, and they are as good-looking as any chilli we sell.
The flavour arrives first, fruity and floral with a moment of sweetness, and then the heat lands. Most sellers put it somewhere between 800,000 and a million Scoville units, though it has never been through a laboratory, so every number attached to it is an estimate.
Two honest warnings. This is a greenhouse plant in Britain. Sow in January or February in a heated propagator and expect ripe pods in September or October. And the strain is not fully fixed, so pod shape and the exact shade of peach vary from plant to plant. Wear gloves to pick and process it.