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scovilles Sugar Rush Peach Scoville?
- Thread starter PodHopper
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According to the following link and Refining Fire Chilis, it's around habanero heat.
http://www.specialtyproduce.com/produce/Sugar_Rush_Peach_Chile_Peppers_12610.php
http://www.specialtyproduce.com/produce/Sugar_Rush_Peach_Chile_Peppers_12610.php
Not sure if anyone has had the scoville testing done on them yet 
from the few phenotypes I have tasted i'd say it varies quite a bit.
from low end of baccatum type heat, up to a considerable lick of heat, but nothing extreme on any of them.
i find it hard to compare the heat profile of baccatums to other more common peppers like Jalapeno or Habanero, it's different to me.
i would say that none of the ones i tasted are hotter in scoville scale than a good Serrano, but again the heat is different.
most were comparable i guess to average jalapeno as far as burn intensity, but the flavor oh my gosh the flavor
they are truly Sweet 
i found the sugar rush peach long pheno to be lower in heat than the rounder/bell shaped phenotype, but the rounder/bell shaped one had a much sweeter taste along with that heat (this may have been due to ripeness at time of picking, I did not grow the ones i sampled, but i think they were as peach as they were gonna get)
Personally i prefer the Cream round phenotype (maybe because i've grown them and had the ripest freshest just picked off the plant fully ripe taste)
I plan on growing several different phenos of Sugar Rush next year to compare them all at the same time.
What i choose to grow in the future will ideally be the ones that produce mature fruit the earliest as i have a short growing season outdoors and i find they take a while to ripen.
But i am more likely to choose to grow whichever i think taste the best. After all I grow plenty of other long season varieties.
Since taste as well as perception of different capsacinoid intensities varies quite a bit from individual to individual I suggest trying just a slice, and even if you find they are mild, offer just a slice at first when giving a sample to someone else (I have told people oh this one is mild and handed them an aji omnicolor, they looked at me like they hate me for a few minutes after eating it
clearly my mild was different than their mild 
)
all of them I have tasted I have enjoyed, Sugar Rush; peach, cream, round, long, whatever they are tasty peppers. Can't go wrong with a sugar rush IMO
from the few phenotypes I have tasted i'd say it varies quite a bit.
from low end of baccatum type heat, up to a considerable lick of heat, but nothing extreme on any of them.
i find it hard to compare the heat profile of baccatums to other more common peppers like Jalapeno or Habanero, it's different to me.
i would say that none of the ones i tasted are hotter in scoville scale than a good Serrano, but again the heat is different.
most were comparable i guess to average jalapeno as far as burn intensity, but the flavor oh my gosh the flavor
they are truly Sweet i found the sugar rush peach long pheno to be lower in heat than the rounder/bell shaped phenotype, but the rounder/bell shaped one had a much sweeter taste along with that heat (this may have been due to ripeness at time of picking, I did not grow the ones i sampled, but i think they were as peach as they were gonna get)
Personally i prefer the Cream round phenotype (maybe because i've grown them and had the ripest freshest just picked off the plant fully ripe taste)
I plan on growing several different phenos of Sugar Rush next year to compare them all at the same time.
What i choose to grow in the future will ideally be the ones that produce mature fruit the earliest as i have a short growing season outdoors and i find they take a while to ripen.
But i am more likely to choose to grow whichever i think taste the best. After all I grow plenty of other long season varieties.
Since taste as well as perception of different capsacinoid intensities varies quite a bit from individual to individual I suggest trying just a slice, and even if you find they are mild, offer just a slice at first when giving a sample to someone else (I have told people oh this one is mild and handed them an aji omnicolor, they looked at me like they hate me for a few minutes after eating it
clearly my mild was different than their mild )all of them I have tasted I have enjoyed, Sugar Rush; peach, cream, round, long, whatever they are tasty peppers. Can't go wrong with a sugar rush IMO
I loved this pepper, it's so sweet and juicy with heat slightly above a Hab. I made a mistake of picking my first few pods not quite ripe/mature, IMO for best results you need to wait till the pod colour resembles that of a over-ripe Banana ...when the bright yellow starts to dull a bit.
Peter S. Has done a review on the SRP
http://thehotpepper.com/topic/61970-sugar-rush-peach-pod-test/
Peter S. Has done a review on the SRP
http://thehotpepper.com/topic/61970-sugar-rush-peach-pod-test/
Habaneros are too hot for me to comfortably snack on and Ii snack on my Sugar Rush Peach right in my garden. Maybe it's just mine. I got some in a box from Jimmy Pickles and those were hotter than mine but less sweet. I don't know what to think anymore.