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Capsicum chinense

Jay's Purple White

Hybrid United States
Scoville Heat Units 900,000
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About this pepper

Jay's Purple White is a modern United States Capsicum chinense hybrid tied to Jay Weaver’s Jay’s Peach line. Public seller descriptions identify it as another variation of Jay Weaver’s Jay’s Peach, but with purple mottling, placing it within the Pennsylvania-bred Jay’s Peach Ghost Scorpion family rather than as an unrelated pepper. Its identity centres on taking the gnarly, very hot Jay’s Peach type and shifting it into a cream-white ripe finish with purple blush, giving it a more unusual ornamental look while keeping the same superhot character.

The plant follows the same broad type associated with Jay’s Peach Ghost Scorpion: a bushy, productive superhot plant from the Ghost Pepper x Trinidad Scorpion breeding line created by Jay Weaver in Pennsylvania. Published Jay’s Peach descriptions place the plants at about 90.0 cm tall, with high yields and a strong superhot profile. The foliage is green, while the pods are long, bumpy, twisted, and often scorpion-like in form, with the Jay’s Purple White variant standing out for its purple mottling and its ripe cream colour with purple blush rather than the usual peach finish of the parent line.

Pod descriptions for the Jay’s Peach line place the fruit at about 7.5 to 8.0 cm long and 2.0 to 3.0 cm wide, with wrinkled skin and an aggressive superhot shape. Jay’s Purple White is described as very very hot and especially suited to powders and very spicy hot sauce. Using the established Jay’s Peach Ghost Scorpion heat figures published by seed sellers, the line sits around 900000 SHU, with the broader Jay’s Peach family commonly placed in the 800000 to 1100000 SHU range. In grower and collector culture, that makes Jay’s Purple White a named colour variation valued mainly for its unusual cream-and-purple finish, strong visual appeal, and serious superhot heat.