Point Pleasant Gum, Red

The Point Pleasant Gum, Red, is a new pepper and is quite the stunning pepper. The lineage starts off with the Purplegum – a dark foliaged smoother pheno habanero/BBG7, with orange fruit.  A customer brought me some of his fruit that grew off phenotype.  A great “spill” eliminated our Purplegum seeds. Lesson learned: Don’t leave pepper seeds on the dinning table when kids are around.  Once spilled, all seeds are disposed of.  Can’t risk mixing up any seeds!  All we had left: The off-phenotype fruit, given too us to evaluate.  Easy solution!

We grew out the fruit as F2 plants and selected unique red and orange variants.  In 2025 we grew F3 plants from the red and orange variants.  Fruit from select F3 plants with the best expressions in each orange and red branch were selected and now are available as F4 seed.  Longer fruit, tapered at the bottom, these peppers exhibit bleeding calyx and tap out around the 200K mark. The red ones seem to be a bit sweeter.

No longer a true Purplegum… in no way, aside from some flavor and the bleeding calyx.  A new name was needed.  Longer, like a gun with a bayonet – started thinking about General Ulysses Grant.  Well, the civil war was a war of two colors.  Blue  |  Grey.  Here we have Red | Orange.  Point Pleasant, home of US Grant!

200000 SHU. This is an estimate. Scoville ratings will change based on growing conditions. Rarer and unstable fruit may still have genetic instability in heat expression. In this case, could defiantly see some variation!  They were grown in near isolation.

20+ seeds per pack.