Re: [CH] Red Savina origins?
Art Pierce (pierces@cruzio.com)
Wed, 19 Apr 2000 12:25:09 -0700
>...does anyone have the details about how and
>where the Red Savina variety originated?
"Plagerize, plagerize, but let nothing evade your eyes."
...Nicholai Ivanovich Lobachevski
"Gleaned" from more than one source:
Red Savinas are a variety developed from a MUTANT
red-colored POD 'found by chance'(!) in a FIELD of the
"normal" orange habaneros in 1989. Found in deed and
developed by one Mr.Frank Garcia, one of the 3 founders of
GNS Spices
P.O. Box 90
Walnut, CA 91788-0090
(near Burbank)
which has registered
the Red Savina as a PVP.
For PVP, see:
http://www.ams.usda.gov/science/pvp.htm
In short PVP means you can grow 'em for your own use,
or sell 'em if licensed by GNS, but, in either case, not sell
the seeds. Getting a license to sell the seeds might just be
possible in another 4 years, if GNS Spices approves of you.]
To continue, the seeds from that single pepper pod were
grown, and, through "selective breeding," developed
into the Red Savina.
[In 1994, the Red Savina set a world record for heat
(577,000 Scoville Heat Units). That level was officially tested
by Silliker Labs, of College Station, Texas (near Texas A&M)].
You can get more details over the phone from Mary, Frank's wife,
at, by phone, 1.800.870.6657 or 1.909.594.9505. She's usually
there from 9 AM => 3 PM, Pacific Time.