Like I said earlier the consideration for calling it another name is because of Trademark application. From what I was told by CaJohn Hard a sauce maker who is on the Chile Pepper Institute Board and also on the Board of Louisiana Pepper Exchange and personal friend of Bosland you cannot Trademark the name of something natural like a chile or a vegetable. He wanted to do it for his Holy Jolokia sauce and after spending a lot of money going through the process was rejected. Tabasco is the only exception he knows and that was almost a century ago when Trademark laws were very different.
Now to answer Beaglestorms questions. All the Scorpions that will be in a new Sauce by CaJohn and El Pinto were my plants grown by Marlin in New Mexico. So calling it a New Mexico variety is not far fetched if someone wants to do that. I may not agree with it but then we do have terms like Hawaiian Pineapple and Georgia Peach don't we??? Sauces will be limited as we only grew a few dozen plants. I have sent Marlin thousands of seeds for Jonah, Douglah, Moruga Scorpion and Scorpion to fill a field. On top of that I have a few hundred seeds started of CARDI, Brain, Barrackapore going to be grown in Marlin's field and here in San Diego. I have gotten seeds of Butch T from a few members here on this forum and will grow them in both locations as well. From what I know now we will have Bosland's people in our fields documenting growth and hopefully do Capsaicin testing at same time we do. All the superhots will be looked at for growth, production, flavor, production and pungency. It is about science but lets not be stupid it's also about money. A lot of sub-standard low pungency material is coming in from India and those that use hot peppers for pepper spray, sauces and spices are looking for an alternative to the Bhut. People look for alternatives when forced to. The Hot Sauce/salsa industry is growing about 20% a year the past 5 years. There is a demand. And if I am part of meeting that demand and you judge me for that so be it.
In response to Dave Taylor. I was told by many of your fellow countrymen that it was a 7 Pot submitted with a new name. The same guys who are trying to set standards for chiles in your country. So take it up with them. Besides you cannot create a new stable variety in one year (Infinity) and two Years (Naga Viper). It cannot happen therefore a new variety cannot exist. I can cross a poodle with a mastiff and what will I have. A mutt!!! And if I breed those mutts I wont have a stable dog breed will I??? Whether it's dogs or plants science still applies. And Guinness who right now is making us authenticate our variety with documentation should have done the same with Infinity. But you cannot verify a variety in any Botanical way and no Horticulturist will sign off on it. So why did Guinness just discard the standards set by Bosland and accept one test from Warwick? Wasnt it Warwick who said a few years ago the Naga Morich tested over 1,500,000 Scoville? It used to be on Gerald's site. It seems credibility and Warwick don't fit together. But that is just my opinion.
Some of us are in this business Mr. Taylor to make money. But we make money by growing more and selling more. Not by making up names and creating make up varieties like Spanish Naga, Satans Kiss Moruga, Naga Viper and Infinity. We don't make up names to sell the same seed twice. We don't take money off some poor fool that thinks he can grow something totally new when he is just buying seeds of another 7 Pot or Scorpion or Naga! Trademark is an issue and the people making sauces are concerned about it. I do not make sauces and will continue to call my seeds and plants Trinidad Scorpion. And if what we grow in New Mexico gets marketed as New Mexico Scorpion mash or fresh peppers I really don't care. Because it will be from New Mexico right? Does Dorset Naga ring a bell???
