It is extensively cultivated in northeastern India, especially in the states of Assam, Nagaland and Manipur.

In northeastern India, the peppers are smeared on fences or incorporated in smoke bombs as a safety precaution to keep wild elephants at a distance. Despite chilli not being at all addictive in the traditional sense, nearly every culture worldwide has incorporated it into their cuisine in some way. In 2007, Guinness World Records certified that the ghost pepper was the world's hottest chili pepper, 170 times hotter than Tabasco sauce. We slow dry our chillies to give them a distinctive smokey taste which adds lots of flavour and heat into any dish.If you do experience burning sensations, see my post on How to Stop the Chili Pepper Burn On Your Skin. 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. Bhut Jolokia (Ghost Chilli) Chilli Seeds was previously the Guinness Book of Records official worlds hottest Chilli with a Scoville Rating of 1,001,304 from 2007-2011 until it lost it's crown to Trinidad Scorpion 'Butch T'.

The rough fruit plants are taller, with more fragile branches, while the smooth fruit plants yield more fruit and are compact with sturdier branches. Redwood City Seed Company, Observations on the variations in the Bhut Jolokia pepper from seed reproduction growouts. If overwatered the seed will rot before germination occurs and too little water means the seed won't germinate either.Because of their intense heat, but also because of their fruity flavor, ghost peppers are great for making hot sauces, for dehydrating into powders or chili flakes, or for chopping and cooking into larger meals, like pots of stew or pots of chili. They were officially the hottest peppers around, declared the World's Hottest of All Spices by the Guinness World Records in 2006, though was eventually dethroned by a new wave of superhot chili peppers. We recommend taking precautions when handling them: avoid contact with eyes, wear gloves at all times when handling and wear a dust/vapour mask if you are grinding or rehydrating and reducing to a paste. The name bhüt jolokia (ভুট জলকীয়া) means 'Bhutanese pepper' in Assamese; the first element bhüt, meaning 'Bhutan', was mistakenly confused for a near- homonym bhut (ভুত) meaning 'ghost'. this means that this product was made using 'Good Manufacturing Processes' (which prohibit cross contamination during manufacture) but has not been tested by a laboratory.