Sugar Rush Peach Stripey

Sugar Rush Peach Stripey is one of the more interesting newer Capsicum baccatum varieties. The fruit ripen peach with red striping that can vary quite a bit from pod to pod.

The original Sugar Rush Peach came from Chris Fowler in Wales. The striped mutation showed up later in the United States and was discovered by Tom Motta. That striped trait has proven stable enough that the variety is now pretty widely grown.

Flavor and Heat

Flavor is sweet, fruity, and a little citrusy. Heat is solid but not crazy. Published estimates are all over the place, so I would not pretend there is one perfect SHU number. Personally it seems around 50K, with any error being on the plus side.

These are great for salsa, hot sauce, fresh eating, or just slicing up when you want something with both sweetness and heat.

The pods are also just cool looking. The striping is the whole reason this one got passed around in the first place.

Growing

Like a lot of baccatum peppers, plants can get tall and productive once they get going. Give them room.

Mrs. Ohio Peppers likes this one enough that she has grown one in her science classroom. Hard to complain about a pepper that doubles as a genetics lesson.

20+ seeds per pack