Edit: I meant "Healthy Harvest", not "World Harvest". Oops.
I was surprised to see bhut jolokias for sale at a local nursery, since they never have anything that's very hot except for orange habs. They apparently come from a nursery called "Healthy Harvest" and they say "Ghost Pepper (bhut jolokia). I already have bhut jolokias, bih jolokias, assam bhut jolokias, naga morich, dorset naga, etc. but it was a nice looking, pretty good sized plant so I bought one anyway, partly out of curiosity. It's probably a foot tall, bushy, dark green, and in a 1 gallon pot for $6, pretty decent deal. The small picture on the tag looks fairly bhut-ish, but the few peppers on there aren't pointy at all, they're kind of oval-shaped looking things but they do look fairly wrinkly like a bhut. Kind of looks like what I imagine a cross between a bhut and a red habanero would look like. Has anyone seen this before and know whether it's a legit bhut jolokia? It's not a big deal if it isn't since I have plenty of bhuts/nagas, I'm just curious because the picture looks slightly sketchy. I'll probably get a picture of the tag up later but don't really feel like doing it now, it's a bit of a PITA for me to put up pictures with my dumb phone.
I was surprised to see bhut jolokias for sale at a local nursery, since they never have anything that's very hot except for orange habs. They apparently come from a nursery called "Healthy Harvest" and they say "Ghost Pepper (bhut jolokia). I already have bhut jolokias, bih jolokias, assam bhut jolokias, naga morich, dorset naga, etc. but it was a nice looking, pretty good sized plant so I bought one anyway, partly out of curiosity. It's probably a foot tall, bushy, dark green, and in a 1 gallon pot for $6, pretty decent deal. The small picture on the tag looks fairly bhut-ish, but the few peppers on there aren't pointy at all, they're kind of oval-shaped looking things but they do look fairly wrinkly like a bhut. Kind of looks like what I imagine a cross between a bhut and a red habanero would look like. Has anyone seen this before and know whether it's a legit bhut jolokia? It's not a big deal if it isn't since I have plenty of bhuts/nagas, I'm just curious because the picture looks slightly sketchy. I'll probably get a picture of the tag up later but don't really feel like doing it now, it's a bit of a PITA for me to put up pictures with my dumb phone.
They also have the infamous Burpee "World's Hottest" Orange Habanero. So that makes 3 chiles they sell that claim to be the world's hottest and aren't, even if the bhut jolokia is real. And I'm not even counting the Kung Pao. Of course, maybe Burpee means that it's the world's hottest habanero, but the quotation marks suggest otherwise, and even if that's what they mean that's not true either.
I should probably stake it since it's growing to the side so much. Might be a little hard to do at this point though.