Jay’s White Ghost Scorpion

Clean Capsicum chinense flavor—sweet and fruity up front, with a citrus edge common to white-pod types—followed by a fast-building superhot burn that growers describe as slightly milder than Jay’s Peach Ghost Scorpion.

Jay’s White Ghost Scorpion is a Capsicum chinense hybrid sold as a cross of White Ghost (white Bhut Jolokia) and Jay’s Peach Ghost Scorpion. Pods start light green and ripen to creamy white; the skin is thin and bumpy like a ghost pepper, and most fruit carry a Trinidad Scorpion-style tail, though shape varies. Grower listings put heat around 700,000–800,000 SHU on average, with some catalogs listing 800,000–1,100,000 — a notch below the peach parent. Flavor is clean, sweet, and fruity with a citrus edge typical of white chinense fruit. Plants are prolific and can reach about 2–5 feet in a long, warm season. The line is not fully stabilized, so off-types and a yellow blush under the white are expected.

Jay Weaver of Meadow View Farm near Bowers, Pennsylvania, selected Jay’s Peach Ghost Scorpion around 2010 from an accidental Ghost × Trinidad Scorpion cross in his father’s fields. The white pods sold as Jay’s White Ghost Scorpion appeared later in that lineage; seed vendors describe a White Ghost × JPGS cross. Independently, Tom Kleinfelter selected a pale JPGS off-type he called White Knight, and other growers later isolated white fruit from Weaver-farm seed. Packets labeled Jay’s White Ghost Scorpion sit in that same family. Breeder credit for the white phenotype is contested, and many lots are still segregating.