Here’s a picture of 5 bhut jolokia varieties I’m growing this year. Starting with red and moving clockwise: red bhuts, peach bhuts, chocolate bhuts, yellow bhuts and caramel bhuts.
The peach bhut jolokias from one of my two plants are ripening quickly.
2012 Peach Bhut Update Posts
Peach Bhut Jolokia Grow 2012 Part 1
Peach Bhut Jolokia Grow 2012 Part 2
As I mentioned in part 1 of my yellow bhut grow post I’m on a quest for the perfect yellow bhut this year and am growing yellow bhuts from 3 different sources. Despite a slow start to the pepper growing season this year due to drought and excessive heat things are starting to progress nicely now that the heat wave seems to have passed.
First up in today’s update are a few yellow bhut pod and plant pictures from seeds provided by Spicegeist. I’m growing 3 plants from this seed. One of them just started ripening red but the other two look one great. One plant in particular is showing all of the characteristics I’m looking for. Large gnarly looking yellow pods. This was one of the first pods to appear and is being processed today for seeds:
The plant is putting out pretty consistent looking pods too:
Next up we have some ripe pod pic from the yellow bhut seeds I received from BigT. I have two of these plants plants going. The plants are heavy producers and taste/heat is still TBD but for the most part the pods are coming in smoother and somewhat smaller than what I’m looking for.
Lastly here’s a picture of a pod that’s starting to ripen on the sole plant I have growing from cmpman1974. The pods look similar to the pods from Spicegeist only a little smaller and at least for now, kind of orange looking. This plant has been growing a little slower than the others too.
I’ll post another update in week or two after there’s more pods ripe and the plants are bigger.
2012 Yellow Bhut Update Posts
Yellow Bhut Jolokia 2012 Grow Part 1
My peach bhut jolokias are starting to ripen. I have two peach bhut plants. One of them grew quickly and produced an early round of pods. Those are the ones that are ripening and pictured here. The second plant is about 1/2 the size and just starting to set pods now that the temperatures are getting down in the 70’s at night. It has a ton of buds/flowers so unless there’s a lot of flower drop it should be a heavy producer later in the season. Overall very happy with this bhut strain so far.
I located the thread where I first saw the pictures of the peach bhut and decided I wanted to grow them.
2012 Peach Bhut Update Posts
Peach Bhut Jolokia Grow 2012 Part 1
Peach Bhut Jolokia Grow 2012 Part 3
In the 2011 growing season I found what I’m calling the caramel bhut jolokia growing in my garden. I had a number of chocolate bhut jolokias growing and they all looked the same except for one plant. That plant had bright green pods and ripened not quite red and not quite chocolate…more of a caramel color. I sent the seeds out to a number of growers and am also growing 5 plants of my own this season. So far of the 5 I have growing one looks like it’s growing true (unripe pods pictured above), one appears to not be growing true and it’s too early to tell for the other three, none of them have pods yet.
As I mentioned I sent seeds to a number of growers and some of them have been posting pictures online. Here are links to threads/pictures I am aware of. Some of these all full blown “grow logs” so you may have to scroll through a few pages to see the caramel bhut pictures. If you’re growing this from seeds I sent or seeds you received from someone else I’d love to know about it, free to post in the comments below.
– Free Caramel Bhut Seeds
– CMPMAN1974 – 2012 Grow Log
– Patricks 2012 Grow Log
– Mills 2012 Glog
– Chiligrower/McHottie 2012 Season
Thanks to everyone for growing these!