Yes indeed, Habanero is a close but milder cousin. I grew them last year.
Ram must have PVC lined guts to be able to ingest 1/4 tsp of bhwt-jolokiya tel.
At 7:41 AM -0800 2/19/07, Dilip/Dil Deka wrote:
"................It is so hot, one can barely take 1/4th of a
teaspoon." - 1/4th of a teaspoon of Bhot Jalakia Achar? You must be
brave.
By the way, a close cousin of this pepper is "Habanero", not as
potent but with a warning hot smell. The plant survives mild winter
in Houston, Texas, and comes back in spring. The fruit (if you call
it that) goes from green to deep yellow to red and it grows to about
1 inch in diameter with a few ridges.
Dilip
Ram Sarangapani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks C'da
I always thought it as small. I think I got it mixed up with the
"kon jolukia" which are also "hot". One of my friend's wife was
kind enough to pack us a bottle of achar of the (bhot jolukia) fiery
stuff.
It is so hot, one can barely take 1/4th of a teaspoon.
--Ram
On 2/19/07, Chan Mahanta
<<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 8:38 AM -0600 2/19/07, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
Whatever the pronounciation, I think congratulations are in order
to the "Bhut".
It may look real small, but it is undoubtedly the king of jolukia land
--Ram
*** It is NOT small at all Ram. The bor-bih kind, the larger of the
two varieties, is nearly three inches long and about 1.5" in
diameter. Its shape is gnarled and contorted. The smaller variety,
called 'lota-bih' is slightly smaller in girth, about 3/4" diameter,
and about two inches long. The 'lota ( creeper or vine) -bih' got
its name from the scraggly limbs of the plant that spread out from
the main stem, umbrella like. The bor-bih plant it more upright and
grows to three to four feet of height in Assam. In our St. Louis
garden, it grew to about 2.5 feet in height.
On 2/19/07, Chan Mahanta
<<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bhwt Jolokiya as some people call it, is called Bih jolkiya (
literally Poison Pepper) in many parts of Upper Assam, including my
ancestral Namti area. I have grown it in my garden here in St.
Louis, just for the heck of it. We never could eat a single one of
them, because they are so ungodly hot.Even the smell is menacing.
They however, look very pretty in autumn when the gnarled and bright
red fruits hang from the plant against the dark green leaves. I
dried a whole bunch of it with the aim of making squirrel repellant
spray . But it has not yet been done or tested for efficacy.
Last month, when I was at Namti, a local youth , who is also a
micro-tea-planter, wanted to take me to show his "bhwt-jolkiya"
farm. I wanted to but lack of time forced me to cancel it. He says
they sell like, um, hot-cakes, in Nagaland.
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It depends on where you grow it. If it is in Guwahati, it is Bhot
Jalakia. In Jorhat it would be Bhut Jalakia. The end result is the
same, you burn at both ends. :-)
Dilip
Santonu Goswami
<<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
<<"The name Bhut Jolokia translates as 'ghost chile,'" Bosland said,
"we're not sure why they call it that, but I think it's because the
chile is so hot, you give up the ghost when you eat it!">>
I think the name should be "BHOT Jalakia" not "BHUT Jalakia" as
mentioned in the article and everywhere else. As far as I know it is
the "bhot" people who used to bring it to the brahmaputra valley to
sell in the market etc and that is why it is "bhot jalakia", not
"bhut, the ghost" as described by the professor. Anyone knows about
this?
umesh sharma <<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Great work!! Perhaps
Haberno pepper mentioned it the article seemed like fire to my
Hyderabadi IT techie roommate Kiran Gudiboina -who likes hot
stuff-I put one in a dish for 5 people-. Bhot will be too much.
Umesh
Santonu Goswami
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