D3monic's crosses - F3 and F4 testing

Jubnat said:

Seems like an interesting pepper!
How many variations of El Scorpenero do you have?

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• Appearance: pretty massive, just over 3" / 75mm long. Doesnt look that gnarly, which made me assume it wasnt that hot. Man was I mistaken.
• Colour: Darkish red - IRL it look a bit darker than in this pic.
• Heat: I'd say it's a solid 1M SHU. It's relatively quick to build up, pretty intense throat burn, goes on for at least 5 minutes. Very surprising given how harmless it looks, and also something of this size, you just dont expect it to be this hot.
• Flavour/texture: Not as strong as your regular chinense smell, but you can still tell it. Smells almost sweet. Juicy as hell, the walls are thick as. No bitter taste at all, the taste is not overpowering but not too weak either. Very sweet, i almost wished it wasnt that intensely hot so I could eat more of it. I think this is probably one of the best tasting peppers I've tried. So the combination of nutty heat, heaps of actual pepper to eat and such awesome taste - dude you gotta grow this into an F4, this is amazing.

• Appearance: Looks pretty average, like a Dorset Naga that's been crossed with an annuum.
• Colour: about the same as the one above, maybe slightly paler but still pretty dark red.
• Heat: I'd say between 300-500K or so. Probably a bit hotter than your average scotch bonnet. Dissipates quickly though but with some throat burn too.
• Flavour/texture: Very bitter, surirpising how different it is flavour-wise compared to Plant #8. The walls are a bit thinner too so not much meat in it. I personally wouldn't bother with this one.

SentencedToBurn said:

El Scorpenero Red #2 F3 Plant #8
 

 

 

 
 
 
 
El Scorpenero Red #2 F3 Plant #1
 

 

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• Quick heat roughly 200-300K, seems to be one of the hotter Orange phenos
• Not bitter with subtle taste, not much chinense taste or smell

• Initial bitterness
• Not much flavour
• Low heat - definitely under 100K, went down really quickly

• Very low heat - hard to detect any
• Very low flavour
• Looks awesome but that's about it

• Initial bitterness, then quick chinense flavour which soon dissipates
• Very hot although starts slow, takes at least 1-2 minutes to build up. Feels like a good 1M SHU. Was pretty full on

• Not bitter
• Very subtle taste, wished it was stronger tasting
• Almost no heat

• Low heat
• Great taste - lightly sweet. Similar to Red #2 Plant 8 that i've reviewed last week, but the flavour or heat isnt as awesome.

• Really meaty
• A lot of taste - slight bitterness at the start then goes away
• Slow with building heat, similar to Giant Goat Plant #8, I'd say 1M SHU, lasted for a while
• Good after taste

• Good taste
• Quick heat spike then goes to mild
• Taste hangs around for a while after the heat goes down
• The only yellow pheno of Red #2 that I've got (out of approx 10 plants that I had of this)

• Low bitterness
• Unique flavour - hard to describe what it was
• Low heat

• Awesome colour - almost see through
• Good flavour, not as sweet as El Scorpenero red phenos but still very nice
• Weak heat and doesn't last too long

• Similar chinense bitterness at the start, although maybe even a bit stronger than the rest
• Medium heat, not as hot as the previous 2 Giant Goats

• Massive amount of pods on the plant for it's size
• Orange-yellow colour
• Good initial taste, lasting flavour
• Heat could roughly be between 100-200K but lasts for a while

• Brief sweet taste that goes away quickly
• Low heat

• Fast heat with no build up, not as hot as previous Giant Goats
• Good initial taste

• Bitter taste at the start but goes away afterwards
• Good heat, 1M+, throat burn, etc
• Sweet taste, fruity flavour of some kind, great flavour
• Seemed to look overripenned but its only been ripe for just over a week so not sure why that is.

• 200-300K heat
• Good flavour - seems to retain that earthy flavour as well as an annuum taste to it
• The shape is good

• Mild heat
• Awesome taste - totally got the sour taste, during the review couldnt work out the flavour, but looks like the sour apple flavour has made a comeback. If this was a bit hotter would be amazing. And look at the shape! This is a kick ass pepper, just need to get a pheno that's hotter.

• Very little heat
• Bitterness from chinense with the earthy taste but not the nice variant
• Probably wouldn't bother unless you want to make a pepper for LOLs

• Pretty mild, very surprising that its not insanely hot
• Good flavour, but the smell made it feel like it was gonna be very very hot. The flavour itself is relatively generic, nothing stands out but is pleasant.
• Looks great

• Flavour is pretty average, about half way on the scale of what some good El Scorp Red ones have
• Low heat
• Pretty chewy

• Flavour isnt that great
• Pretty much no heat
• Very similar to last week's lemon one where it just looked cool unfortunately

• Generic flavour
• A bit of heat, maybe 200K or so, hard to say.
• Nothing special about this one

• The first coupel of ripe pods dont look like the rest, the rest look almost bean-like with bumpy chinense texture.
• Flavour is very different, not sure if you've tried fejoas, but it smells like it and flavour definitely reminded me of a fejoa, nuts this one. Heat is ok too, nothing ground breaking. But the flavour is a total oddity.
• I reckon this is one of the most different as far
• Pics below of the ripe one and of the green ones

• Sudden heat but then goes away very quickly
• Flavour is a bit meh
• Probably wouldn't bother with this one

D3monic said:

i'm pretty drunk so I need to come back to this tomorrow but the following two out of the group looked and sounded like keepers. 
 
El Scorpenero Red #2 Plant 19   
I like the shape and color, could use a good citrusy version. 
 
El Scorpenero Orange F3 Plant 7
 
i've never had fejoa but google says its a evergreen that tastes sort of like guava and pineapple. Sounds pretty tasty. Would probably make a good sauce. I'll def take seeds of that one. 
 
I'll revisit the video tomorrow when i'm soberish and see if there's anything I missed.  Thanks for taking the time to do such thorough reviews. 

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