Bhut jolokia....days to ripening?

[huntoften]

After waiting for months, my Bhut finally bloomed...and bloomed and bloomed! I've got 30+ baby chiles on the plant that are about the size of a pencil tip. Anyone know how long it takes them on average to fully grow and ripen from this stage?

[matermaniac]

I wish I could help you.
The first blooms and baby peppers I had on my plants all withered, yellowed and fell off. That was about a month ago. Now,in the last week or so I have about 200 soon to be buds on 4 plants.

[franzb69]

I have also have some bhuts growing and many other varities as well. wish i could help but this is my first year of growing peppers or anything for that matter.

all i can say is, they'll ripen up when they're ready. it may be from 2 weeks to a month before you can see anything ripening.

[huntoften]

I had about 30 fruit set on the plant, all but three aborted due to the high heat the past few weeks. It keeps flowering and now we've got much better weather. The three that set are about 1.5 inches long.

[franzb69]

some shade cloth will definitely help keeping those pods on the plant.

or if you can clump the plants together as close as possible so the plants shade each other out.

cross pollination would probably be an issue if you're gonna keep seeds for seed stock.

[b54red]

Just a question. What the heck do you do with a pepper that hot? If I had one, I think I would try blending it and using it as a whitefly spray except I would be afraid of the drift burning me by accident.

[franzb69]

uhm.... we chiliheads eat 'em. =D

got more than one variety of these myself. yellow, choco, red, assam etc..... =D

[Zana]

Originally Posted by franzb69

uhm.... we chiliheads eat 'em. =D

got more than one variety of these myself. yellow, choco, red, assam etc..... =D

Yep....we do.

Am looking forward to growing some of these next year. In the mean time I have 3 different hot chili's growing...just enuff for snacking or pickling.

Zana

Hmmmmmm....maybe I should go have some now to help clear my sinuses this morning? Between that and the antihistimines, it might just work. Ya think?

[franzb69]

i've read online that eating something really hot can actually help with migraines.

seems to work with me. so have a go at it. =D

we chiliheads are crazy like that. ;p

[b54red]

Only trouble with your migraine cure is 12 hrs later you can get a hot flash at the other end.

Originally Posted by franzb69

i've read online that eating something really hot can actually help with migraines.

seems to work with me. so have a go at it. =D

we chiliheads are crazy like that. ;p

[franzb69]

Only trouble with your migraine cure is 12 hrs later you can get a hot flash at the other end.

yes well... that is the side effect. lol.

[b54red]

I am growing a pepper I got from someone in South Africa called Uyababa. I think some of you would like. It makes a huge pepper plant and is super productive. The peppers are similar in size to a cayenne; but they are so much hotter. This thing will clear your sinuses. I am going to save the seed so if you want to try it let me know. I will be posting some pictures in a few days or a week since I just picked it and there are no ripe peppers on the plant right now.

[franzb69]

Those peppers sound good to me. =)