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Pepper Bhut Jolokia

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Item Details

Color:

Red

Sizes:

6" Square

Habit:

Upright

Height:

20" 50"

Width

24" - 36"

Exposure:

Zone:

8 - 11

Description

Scoville scale: 1,041,427 SHU

The Bhut jolokia, also known as ghost pepper, ghost chili, U-morok, red naga, naga jolokia and ghost jolokia, is an interspecific hybrid chili pepper cultivated in the Northeast Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland and Manipur.

CAUTION: Don’t touch any of the super hots with bare hands. Use latex or nitril gloves when handling hot peppers or seeds. I have found that with simple plastic food prep gloves, the oil still gets through. Also, use plastic utensils when cutting the peppers because the oil can stay on metal utensils for several washings.

Uses

Containers, Flower Beds

Care

Sensitive to over fertilization, changes in temperature and other environmental stressors, ghost pepper plants must have a growing season of longer than three months in temperatures of above 70 F. (21 C.) in order to be grown outside. If growing ghost peppers in containers, use a well-draining potting medium. Growing peppers in the garden may need to have organic matter added to the soil, especially if the soil in sandy. Fertilize the newly planted ghost pepper plants, and then two or three more times during the growing season. Alternatively, use a controlled release fertilizer to feed during the whole growing season.

Read more at Gardening Know How: Care Of Ghost Chili Peppers: How To Grow Ghost Pepper Plants https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/pepper/growing-ghost-chili-peppers.htm

Sensitive to over fertilization, changes in temperature and other environmental stressors, ghost pepper plants must have a growing season of longer than three months in temperatures of above 70 F. (21 C.) in order to be grown outside.

Read more at Gardening Know How: Care Of Ghost Chili Peppers: How To Grow Ghost Pepper Plants https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/pepper/growing-ghost-chili-peppers.htm

If growing ghost peppers in containers, use a well-draining potting medium. Growing peppers in the garden may need to have organic matter added to the soil, especially if the soil in sandy. Fertilize the newly planted ghost pepper plants, and then two or three more times during the growing season.