We add new videos year-round, with all the tips and tricks you need to know to grow your own chilli plants from seed at home, from our experts here at the Farm. You can certainly compare a ghost pepper to a Carolina Reaper propagated by Ed Currie as both are intensely hot and both offer up a sweet, fruity flavor. The hottest ghost pepper is 416 times hotter than the mildest jalapeno pepper, which averages about 5,000 Scoville Heat Units on the Scoville Scale, and about 208 times hotter than the average jalapeno pepper and about 3 times hotter than the hottest habanero pepper.

What we love about the ghost chilli is the deep warmth you get after eating your food, this means you get the flavours of your dish such as garlic, onion and other herbs and spices and then the deep warmth comes in. For comparison, Tabasco red pepper sauce rates at 2,500–5,000, and pure capsaicin (the chemical responsible for the pungency of pepper plants) rates at 16,000,000 SHUs.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. You might consider growing them in a greenhouse where you can control temperature and humidity more directly.

That said, eating them in moderation can be good for you, as chili peppers offer all sorts of health benefits. When working with any super hot peppers, it is important to wear gloves when handling the peppers both in raw and dried forms. 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. The word "bhut" means "ghost", given from the Bhutias people, possibly because the heat sneaks up on you like a ghost. As a small, family run business, we cannot afford to do this, so instead we provide as much information as we can.The ghost pepper (aka the Bhut Jolokia) is one of the hottest peppers in the world, topping over 1 Million Scoville Heat Units.

Originating from North East India this chilli was the Guinness World Record holder as the hottest chilli in 2007 at 400 times hotter than Tabasco!They originate in Northern India and the peppers have been around for generations, though only cultivated in the western world since the turn of the century. However, in the race to grow the hottest chili pepper, the ghost chili was superseded by the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T pepper in 2011, the Carolina Reaper in 2013 and Pepper X in 2023. The ghost pepper was in the running for the hottest pepper in the world for quite some time - in fact, it actually held the Guinness Book of World Record's record for the world's hottest pepper from 2007 until 2010.