This article came out in my local paper today:
http://www.newsobserver.com/entertainment/arts/story/114851.html
Anyone with experience with this variety of pepper?
I'd love to add this variety to next year's garden.
Ghost chiles, aka Bhut Jolokias, hottest peppers on earth?
Not me Kent. I'm with that guy that was judging. I like the flavor of the peppers and when they are so hot you can't taste them I don't think there is much point to them.
Jeanette
I have one growing right now. I got the seeds in a swap for my DH. I can't eat anything remotely hot but he loves the stuff. Mine was doing great even though I understand they are hard to grow. But today, the wind knocked it over so I am hoping it has not been hurt. It has a good many peppers on it. I'll let you know what he thinks about them.
Cajun, that is sooooo funny. Your first sentence sounded like you traded the seeds for your DH. LOL Just my weird sense of humor. I hope they do well. The peppers. I love trying new things.
Jeanette
I like to grow new things too. Even if it is something I can't eat, surely someone I know will enjoy it. I would have like to have traded him on a few occasions. LOL
Yes, I do too. Even, like you say, if you can't use them yourself. I would sure hang a picture of a fire or something on them tho to caution people about them. A lot of people eat that hot stuff.
I know compared to those that Jalapinoes. are not hot, but I had a boss that ate those things like pop corn. One day I came to work and found a big sack of them in my chair. The maintenance fellow had left them for me. I took them in and showed my boss. I told him that most ladies get flowers delivered, but look what I get. He looked in there and then dove in with both hands. Walked out popping them in his mouth.
He said that when he was in college he and his roommate roasted them and lived on them for all the time they were there. I can't even imagine eating them like that. I just stood there with my mouth hanging open.
Well, we are suppose to get a big drop in temperature, 87 to the lows in the 30s and the weatherman is talking rain and snow. I am having a new roof put on, and they only have it half replaced. Tuesday is suppose to be the start of the rain and goes down hill from there.
ttyl, Jeanette
Cajun: I thought the same thing Jeanette did!! LOL
We are getting rain today. Hope they get your roof on n time.
Ha ha ha Kent I have a thought on this pepper.
You might vent the fumes to the breather of your cruiser, and never have to gas up. lol
R
Spoken like a true inventor Russ. lol
Jeanette
Good one, Russ.
Wonder if this pepper would make a good pepper spray?
LOL and that was spoken like a true lawman Kent.
kentnc - check out the pepper forum and loo for my post unde "hotest"
at the moment i am growing 7 pots, so named because one pepper can make 7 pots of chile. these are one of the hotest pppes i have ever grown. they are exremely hot.
i have grown bhut jolokias last year but did not have good luck with them. even these 7 pots were a pain to grow. just liket he bhuts, after the plants were nice and tll and vey green (while still indoors under lights) the leaves starting falling off them. once i put them outside the leaves grew back and the flowers came and the peppers grew.
with the bhuts, the leaves fell off also. when i put them outside the leaves grew back and i had plenty of flowers but then they fell off. out of three plants i ended up with 3 green peppers.
the 7 pot plant is still outside and still producing.
if you want to know more about ultra hots, on that hotest post you can see posts from "bush master" who grows hundreds of very hot peppers. i got my seeds and all the advice i needed from him.
frank
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Kent; since they are that hot, I would imagine it would be illegal for use in spray form. Much like the 409 commercials. They could improve it and upgrade it to 410 but it would disintegrate what ever you sprayed it on.
Of course that could be a good thing, sometimes - - - - -Hmmmmm. Save the taxpayers from an expensive trial. Or eliminate most of the PORK BARREL EXPENSES , at the root heh hehheh
herbie: 10-4, thanks for the tip; will check it out
Russ: that's an idea, have a spray that would disintegrate the recipient!!! LOL
Jeanette: always thinking of ways to improve the "tools" of my trade!!!
I grow Bhut Jolokia, --they are very hot!! they have a great flavor also, --if you can get past the heat, --my plants are in the greenhouse, it is about 7 feet tall, --and 3 years old, --
No kidding!! Why do you grow it in the greenhouse? I would think in Fl that you could have it outside. I love the flavor of peppers/chilies. But I can't get past that heat. Or, I should say my stomach can't. LOL
So, what you are saying is that it is not an annual. You don't have annuals down there do you? You know, your area is like a different planet to me.
it got down to 12 deg breifly last winter, -peppers are not that hardy, -- lost a few Banana varieties also, --the older and biger pepper plants have a very hot pepper
Wow, no idea it got that cold there. How come you are zone 9?? Because you get it for such a short time?
it was in the high 90s here today, --but it does get down to 17 or 18 deg here some time during most winters, --I live in a micro climate area, --
You have had the SAME plant for 3 years?!!!
That is what he said. I thought they were annuals. Jeanette
yes, they are over 3 now, -I had some Red Sevina that made it to 4 before the nematodes got them, I just prune them to keep them from getting too tall and falling over, some of the Chili Tepin are like small trees, and several were 5 years old, -
I can only imagine how hot they were.
Wonder if they are naturally hot, or from old age. LOL
Jeanette
I have heard the older the plant gets the hotter the peppers get. Don't know if there is anything to it.
So, does that mean that those are new hybrid seeds if taken from those super hot peppers? You are creating new capsicum rated peppers? YIKES as some would say.
I don't cross the varieties of peppers too much, esp ones like Bhut Jolokia, -I try to keep the strains as pure as I can,and separated from each other, [ and way away from the bells, and jalapinos] -- but I supose there is a possibility that the buggs that pollinate will do that for me anyway
When I bought some Anaheims from a pepper farm they had a pretty good bite to them. I was told that the soil could make a difference too??? Wow, what does that do for them?
Jeanette
A few years ago I dug up a Wildfire hot pepper at the end of summer and planted it in a big pot and brought it inside. It didn't produce much over winter, but stayed alive. Then in spring it perked up so I put it outside with its pot and it mde plenty of big beautiful hot red peppers long before my new pepper seedlings had even begun flowering! And it kept going right through summer. I let it die with the others that autumn though. I read somewhere that it is the cold that requires them to grow as an annual, so in the right conditions they will keep going. Same for tomatoes.
I don't have soil here, just sugar sand, and lots of horse poop, rabbit poop, and chicken poop. I go to a local dairy and get a load of Cow poop, once in a while, when starting a big bed planting, --but I do believe soil makes a diference in heat and flavor.