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CPI Improved Flavor variety ???

AJ Drew

AJ Drew

At CPI I read about one of their cultivars which is reportedly the most flavorful hot pepper yet.  Thing is, now I can not find what the name was.  Any one have a clue or am I going to have to look at each they offer?

Maybe NuMex Heritage 6-4
 
Would it be archived on their site somewhere perhaps? http://www.chilepepperinstitute.org/chile_peppers.php
 
This one talks about the NuMex Heritage 6-4 http://www.chilepepperinstitute.org/content/files/Plant%5C%27s%20fruit%20extra%20flavorful%20fall%202010.pdf
 
Another from their site:
 
"It’s chile season in New Mexico, but not every chile pepper is created equal. Researchers at New Mexico State University’s Chile Pepper Institute and Las Cruces-based Biad Chili Products LLC have partnered to produce Biad’s Reserve NuMex Heritage 6-4, a super-flavored chile bred to have five times the flavor compounds and aroma of similar chile peppers grown today. “I’d like for the public to get a good quality chile pepper,” said Chris Biad, president of Biad Chili. “Other chile peppers out there are good, but this takes it to a new level.” "

 
http://www.chilepepperinstitute.org/content/files/CPINewsletterFall09%281%29.pdf
 
Another newsletter that speaks of it. It does indeed appear to be the NuMex Heritage 6-4.
 
"In 1998, we obtained seed of the original ‘New Mexico 6-4’ that had been frozen in liquid nitrogen at the USDA’s National Seed Storage Lab in Fort Collins, Colorado. For three years we increased the seed in isolation cages, developing 27 breeding lines. Then in 2002, we grew each line in a 30-foot observation plot. We had members of the New Mexico Chile Commission visit the field for a taste test; they tasted the chile pepper pods from each plant, and we tagged the ones that had the most flavor and best taste. "
 
http://www.chilepepperinstitute.org/content/files/Winter0809%281%29.pdf
 
There is now a line of them. The Heritage 6-4, the Heritage Big Jim and the Sandia Select. All grown out from seeds from the USDA germoplasm bank in Colorado.
 
I have been reading on the line having more flavor, but I can not find the statement I remember.  It was something along the lines of a pepper being the most flavorful in the world.  Almost a play on the whole hottest pepper in the world thing.  Maybe I imagined it.
 
ajdrew said:
I have been reading on the line having more flavor, but I can not find the statement I remember.  It was something along the lines of a pepper being the most flavorful in the world.  Almost a play on the whole hottest pepper in the world thing.  Maybe I imagined it.
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Think I found it !
 
This paper from CPI, http://www.chilepepperinstitute.org/content/files/H64.full.pdf, has the following quote:
 
"The attendees, which included researchers, staff, students, and the general public, all commented that it was the best- flavored green chile they had ever tasted"
 
Spicy Mushroom said:
^That's the same pepper we've been discussing :)
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Yes but until that last quote I wasnt sure it was the one I was trying to remember.  Still not really positive.  I remember an article that said one of the CPI varieties was the most flavorful pepper in the world.  I think it was a tongue in cheek sort of play on the whole hottest pepper in the world thing.
 
Well in my first post I included the quote “Other chile peppers out there are good, but this takes it to a new level.”
 
Which suggests 'the best' too. 
 
That specific wording I didn't find when I looked somewhat briefly on their site archives. Either way I'd like to grow this pepper now :)
 
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