for the past two seasons i have grown ultra hot pepper seeds. they are called ultra hots because they go far above the hottest habanero in terms of scoville units (the more scoville units the hotter the pepper) in 2007 the bhut jolokiia [a pepper from india) broke the guiness book of records when it recorded a scoville unit of 1,000,000. the red savino habaner was considered the hottest with a scoville unit of 350,000 to 750,000.
i ordered my seeds from the university of new mexico. there were 14 seeds in the package and the instructions said that they sometimes take 5 weeks to germinate.
i started all 14 seeds in late february and after only 10 days i had three germinate.
unfortunately they were the only seeds that did germinate. i repotted them when they had their second set of leaves and the stem looked nice and sturdy. after a week or two the plant was loaded with leaves. one day when i returned from work i noticed that some of the bottom leaves were falling off each of the three plants. the top leaves looked nice andgreen and the stem weas still looking strong and getting bigger. after hardending them off for a week i put them outside into my 5 gallon containers on june 1st. after about a week i noticed that the leaves were starting to grow back. about mid july i started to get flowers on the three plants. i could hardly wait to see a pepper start to grow. unfortunately little by little all the flowers fell off the plant. i finally got 3 peppes from the plants but by then it was september and they were still green adn when i tried them they were not hot aat all.
last year i started peppers called 7 pots. so named because they say one pepper will heat up 7 pots of chili. LOL
i did the same with these peppers as i did with the bhut jolokia's and the same thng happened. the leaves fell off, grew back but this time when the flowers came out they did not fall off and i was rewarded with over 200 of the hottest peppers i have ever experienced. they were so hot that when my hot pepper loving neighbor tried one she ended up with a blister on her lips.
at the moment i have a few seeds for next year including different strains of 7 pot. i have morousa blend, dougla blend and the original bhut's. also have very hot chili pper seeds.
just wanted to tell you about my experience with these testy seeds. .
