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Pepper variety

Trinidad Scorpion Butch T

Open-pollinated pepper

Breeding
Open-pollinated
Growth habit
-
Days to maturity
100-120 days
1 seed catalog · basis unstated
Fruit
red
Weight
-
Bred by
-

Grey captions say what stands behind that particular figure. Breeding, growth habit and fruit characters carry no caption because they rest on the record's sources as a whole rather than citing their own; closing that gap is ordinary outstanding work, not a finished job.

The species here is supported by Peppers: Vegetable and Spice Capsicums. These claims name their own evidence rather than resting on the record's source list as a whole, because a species that distinguishes a variety, or an attribution to a breeding programme, is worth being able to check on its own.

Also known as

NameKindNote
Butch T Scorpion Synonym

Commonly confused with

These are different varieties. A name shared between them does not make them the same seed.

Origin & history

A Trinidad Scorpion selection grown out by Butch Taylor, certified by Guinness as the world's hottest chile in 2011 before the Moruga Scorpion and Carolina Reaper passed it.

Measurements

MeasurementValueContext
Days to maturity 100-120 days
Scoville heat 800,000-1,463,700 SHU The 2011 record test returned 1,463,700 SHU. Ordinary fruit runs well below that; pungency in this class varies enormously with growing conditions.

Against the rest of the pepper database

Where this variety sits among every pepper we hold a comparable figure for. Position is not merit: earlier is not better than later, and hotter is not better than milder. Only cultivar-level figures are compared, never trial results, and maturity is only ranked against figures counted the same way.

Days to maturity 100-120 days · ranked at its midpoint, 110
55 median 82.5 155

later than 87% of the 252 peppers we hold a figure for. None of these figures state whether they are counted from sowing or from transplant, so they are ranked against each other on the assumption that suppliers use one convention, which is not something any of them says.

Scoville heat 800000-1463700 SHU · ranked at its midpoint, 1,131,850
0 median 5,000 1,900,000

hotter than 97% of the 249 peppers we hold a figure for.

Traits

Disease resistance

No documented disease resistance, typical of heirlooms and older open-pollinated varieties. See pepper diseases for the cultural playbook that fills the gap.

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Sources & References

Evidence: 2 sources, including 1 independent reference.

  1. Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds catalog · Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Co., Seed Catalog
  2. Peppers: Vegetable and Spice Capsicums · CABI (2012), Scholarly Reference