Hot pepper adventure
SUPER HOT PEPPER SEEDLINGS Join me as I embark on a journey of discovering what are super hot peppers. Initially, I didn't have any idea why they are called Super Hot peppers except that they are probably more spicy that the common table pepper that I have tried. Anyway, I got interested when I saw a video during my random scan of You Tube. I decided therefore to plant a few varieties and find for myself just what are these super hot peppers, how they look and probably try tasting some of them, how hot they really are. The heat of a pepper is measured in SHU (Scoville Heat unit), and to have a comparison, or reference, the Bell pepper has zero (0) SHU, Jalapeno pepper is supposed to have around 2,000 SHU, the Habanero at 5,000 , the Scotch Bonnet at 200,000, Ghost pepper is at 800,000, the Carolina Reaper which is listed in the Guinness Book of world records as the hottest pepper (as of this writing) was measured at 2,200,000 SHU (Whew!). In this adventure, I will look at th...