OK everyone, the legend of the Scopion as I know it.
Rewind to 2004...rumors on GardenWeb of a pepper a guy from Maryland states are the hottest damn thing ever he got at a local nursery called Valley View Farms in Cockeysville, MD. We all think rumor...bs...yeah OK, etc. Next 100s of people of couse begging for seed. I believe the owners of the nursery went to Trinidad years ago and acquried some stuff - never sold a 7 pot to my knowledge and refused to ship plants or sell seeds so the plant was only avaialble to locals.
2005...friend on another forum somehow gets gifted SIX seeds from this person and no one else seems to have gotten them. Grows them out that year, takes a bite and posts HOLY #### these FU##ERS are the hottest thing ever.
2006...gifts seeds to select chileheads across the globe and we get our first taste that year of the fireballs. OMG was my first reaction biting into one. Hottest and still probably hottest ever IMO. Douglah is close. 7 Pod too. Mass seed production generated by someone famous on this forum who knows a thing or two about heat. Not me...lol.
2007: Seeds spread widely across Europe and Italian chileheads go insane with them. Becomes well-known and sold at some websites. The craze is on...heat will never be the same again. The superhot era begins (except for TheChileMan introducting the Naga Morich even earlier when we thought mythical). I still remember asking him for seeds many years ago.
2008....we know the story...endless colors of superhots and pain for all. lol.
2009....TBD
Chris