chinense Bhut Jolokia problem??

Dyce51 · Jul 17, 2009

Ok I have 13 Bhut Jolokia plants growing in my garden. I was looking at them today and picked couple of little green not yet ripe peppers to test. I popped them in my mouth and...

...boy was I surprised!!!

They were sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Very Confused!!!

Are the young not ripe Jolokia's supposed to be sweet?? I am now waiting for the larger ones to ripen and test again!

the54 · Jul 17, 2009

you have to wait until they get bigger/riper

origamiRN · Jul 17, 2009

interesting....VERY INTERESTING

chillilover · Jul 17, 2009

They still should have burned good as far as I know. Do they look like Jolokias?

Dyce51 · Jul 17, 2009

chillilover said:
They still should have burned good as far as I know. Do they look like Jolokias?

yes they do look like Jolokias...just small and green instead of red

patrick · Jul 17, 2009

How small is small?

UnNatural · Jul 18, 2009

Haven't tried small Bhuts but i'd imagined you'd have some heat. I knocked off a little 1.5" green jalapeno the other day by accident so i ate it expecting it to be mild and green tasting. It was green tasting but it was already hotter than most super market jals.

POTAWIE · Jul 18, 2009

Sounds like they are still too imature to have produced any heat. Have patience and let them get at least close to ripe

Dyce51 · Jul 18, 2009

they were a lil more than an inch long......I will wait till they get bigger and turn red......I just thought being they are immature the heat would be more concentrated

Noshownate · Jul 18, 2009

pictures?

Smokenstein · Jul 20, 2009

Hmmm, I've picked a few 1 inch Caribbean Reds to keep me satisfied until the bigger ones ripen and they had pretty decent heat already (probably close to habanero heat). So I would expect at least a little heat, but maybe Bhut's grow different.