03/29/2013
ICE SCREAM SCORPION
There has been a lot of interest in this new pod, this is a unintentional cross or a genetic throwback to some crosses I was making many years ago (it does share some characteristics with the other pepper I was crossing with a Scorpion) It grew from Zydeco farms Trinidad Scorpion grow out (200 plants) and it was the only one that showed up in the grow out or from any of the thousands of seeds I had distributed to the Chile head community (1 plant? odd, Genetic?) The color was a very pale yellow, sometimes pods that claim to be white are this "Cream" like color. The flavor was very sweet, sugar sweet in fact, with a hint of a vanilla flavor buried in the unique combination of heat and flavors. The heat is very hot, not Scorpion hot, but way hotter than the habaneros. I'd rate it somewhere between 200,000 to 550,000 shu. Now as far as the name, the color and flavor reminded me of vanilla Ice Cream, the heat was the Scream part, so combined it became the ICE SCREAM SCORPION! The sweetest Scorpion ever! This will be a f2 this year and with some luck and work the seeds will become available in a year or so, fresh pods maybe this year.
