Bhut Jolokia / Ghost Pepper / Ghost Chili | Exceptionally Hot Chili Pepper Plant in Container

Bhut jolokia (also known as ghost pepper or ghost chili) is an exceptionally hot hybrid chili pepper plant cultivated in the Nagaland and Assam region of northeastern India and parts of neighboring Bangladesh. It is a hybrid of Capsicum chinense and Capsicum frutescens and is closely related to the Naga Morich. In Assam, the pepper is also known as 'poison chili', denoting the plant's heat. In Nagaland this chili is called Naga jolokia or Naga chili. The name bhut jolokia (ভোট জলকীয়া) means Bhutanese pepper in Assamese (the word 'bhut' actually means Bhutanese).
Ripe peppers measure 2.5 to 3.3 inches long with a red, yellow, orange, white, purple or chocolate color. However red is the most common and orange, yellow and chocolate are the rarer varieties. The ghost chili is rated at more than one million (1,041,427) Scoville Heat Units (SHUs). They are used as extremely hot spices in both fresh and dried forms to heat up curries, pickles and chutneys. Sometimes these peppers are smeared on fences or incorporated in smoke bombs as a safety precaution to keep wild elephants at a distance. The pepper's intense heat also makes it a fixture in competitive chili-pepper eating. According to Wikipedia, chili grenades made from ghost peppers were successfully used by the Indian Army in August 2015 to flush out a terrorist hiding in a cave.
In 2007 it was certified as the hottest Chili Pepper on the planet in The Guinness Book of World Records. However, it was superseded by the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T pepper in 2011 and Carolina Reaper in 2013.
The plant shown here is about 1 year old and it was grown from seed. Cocopeat (50%), vermicompost (40%) and perlite (10%) have been used as the potting media. The pot (clay pot) size is about 12 inch in diameter.
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