Northeast Gardening: Growing New in 2008 Pt. 2, 1 by David_Paul

David_Paul wrote:
perl...good memory. I am growing a pepper similar to schikenlady's Naga Jolokia Bhut. Some debate over the various "hottest" cultivars. Mine is Bhut Jolokia from New Mexico University's Chili Institute. Guinness Boook of World Records lists it as the world's hottest. But the different ones in this class I assume will be vying for the title for some time. Doesn't really make a lot of difference. They all are 100 times hotter than a jalapeno.

A video of a Wall Street Journal reporter--who went to Assam India to investigate the cultivar--eating a Bhut Jolokia:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6yGZdOFdok

New Mexico U told informed me Bhut Jolokia can take up to 58 days to germinate but mine came up in 9 days with bottom heat ( 83-86 degrees). Planted five seeds and three germinated in that time. A few weeks after transplanting , the other two seeds germinated! You would think they would have been buried but they popped right up. One of the wee ones is in this pic of all three which were started Feb 22: