The seeds should be sown in either a heated propagator or a heated greenhouse and kept at a constant high temperature. Add ghost chilli to your dish to give a real depth of flavour and heat, we suggest you start with a smaller amount and build up your heat to suit. The ghost pepper (aka the Bhut Jolokia) is one of the hottest peppers in the world, topping over 1 Million SHU (Scoville Heat Units).

Novel Formation of Ectopic (Nonplacental) Capsaicinoid Secreting Vesicles on Fruit Walls Explains the Morphological Mechanism for Super-hot Chile Peppers".However, as hot as the ghost pepper is, the Carolina Reaper has more than double the heat of the ghost pepper when it is as it's hottest. However, the red fruit variety has two different types: the rough, dented fruit and the smooth fruit.

inches long and are usually red, though there are red, yellow, orange, white, purple or chocolate color varieties.The hottest peppers in the world are members of this species, with Scoville Heat Unit scores of over 2 million. However, in the race to grow the hottest chili pepper, the ghost chili was superseded by the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T pepper in 2011, the Carolina Reaper in 2013 and Pepper X in 2023. In 2005, New Mexico State University's Chile Pepper Institute in Las Cruces, New Mexico, [20] found ghost peppers grown from seed in southern New Mexico to have a Scoville rating of 1,001,304 SHUs by HPLC. You can certainly compare a ghost pepper to a Carolina Reaper propagated by Ed Currie as both are intensely hot and both offer up a sweet, fruity flavor. Bhut Jolokia can need a little extra help with pollination either by hand-pollinating and/or placing near to a Habanero type chilli pepper.