Bhutlah Scorpion Pepper
The bhutlah scorpion is another deadly hot pepper created by wisconsin grower chad soleski.
Bhutlah scorpion pepper. In 2007 guinness world records certified that the ghost pepper was the world s hottest chili pepper 400 times hotter than tabasco sauce. Also it was rumored. However in the race to grow the hottest pepper the. My seeds were for the red bhutlah scorpion one of my plants.
It got its fame because back in 2013 a video reviewer named ted barrus ate a very very large specimen. Or did a scorpion variety from chad s pepper patch unknowingly cross into his red bhutlah. Pepper x resulted from several cross breedings that produced an exceptionally high content of capsaicin in the locules of the pepper. It was a cross between the bhut jolokia and the 7 pot douglah.
Pepper x is a cultivar of capsicum chili pepper bred by ed currie creator of the carolina reaper. It is a hybrid of capsicum chinense and capsicum frutescens and is closely related to the naga morich. After that the person who sent him the pepper claimed the name. Currie stated that it is two times as hot as the carolina reaper which would.
7 pot brain strain 7 pot primo red 7 pot lava red yellow nagabrain red yellow naga reaper naga brain devil chocolate red 7 pot douglah x butch t 7 pot. Johnny scoville s tip jar. Trinidad scorpion moruga trinidad scorpion moruga yellow butch t reaper scorpion red moruga satan carolina reaper x butch t apocalypse scorpion chocolate orange and red bhutlah red reaper x bhutlah. Chad soleski an expert grower from wisconsin made the first pepper coined the name bhutlah.
This pepper came from one of my two bhutlah scorpion plants that i started from seeds purchased from jim duffy at refining fire chiles. The exceptional pungency of the chili was developed over 10 years of cultivation. Keep in mind that a larger pepper has more oil so will do more damage. Is this a red bhutlah that just started producing monster scorpion looking peppers within it s own dna.
We nickname it and a few others we grow the. Say its one of the worlds hottest peppers in 2016. The ghost pepper also known as bhut jolokia is an interspecific hybrid chili pepper cultivated in northeast india. The ghost chili is rated at more than one million scoville heat units.
We will never know. What is not known is this. It has been a while since a single pod rocked me this.