Origins and Heritage

Origins

The Variegated Sugar Rush Stripey was discovered by California based pepper grower Rolando Rolas Lemus. He noticed that one of the Sugar Rush Stripey plants he was growing in his Aerogarden in 2022 was a bit different from the others, and posted it on the Pepper Lovers Facebook page. I saw the post and immediately knew it was something special. I offered him a whole envelope of seeds from my website in exchange for a handful of his Variegated Sugar Rush Stripey seeds. Happily, he obliged!

Upon sowing more seeds, Rolando noted that the variegation exhibited was in fact genetically repeatable, and many of the seedlings showed signs of variegation. This would have been generation M2, the same generation of seeds I started in 2023.

Heritage

The Variegated Sugar Rush Stripey is a true Capsicum baccatum cultivar. It originated from a spontaneous mutation in the chlorophyll production pathway rather than through crossing with another variegated variety.