A growing business of growing Bhut
Jolokia means a lot of new jobs in agriculture, processing and administration.
Not exact matches
In 2004, Assam - based pepper grower Frontal Agritech also had their Bih
Jolokia chiles HPLC - tested and reported 1,041,427 SHU, which
means two independent results for
Jolokia are in the same ballpark.
This
means the SHU value for «Bhut
Jolokia» was four times higher than «Red Savina» — so much for «the world's current hottest chile pepper»
The the average genetic similarity between C. chinense and «Bhut
Jolokia» was 0.79, which
means this chile clearly belongs to the C.chinense species, but has some C. frutescens genes as well.
CPI noted that in their trials, Bhut
Jolokia never produced fruits without artificial pollination in the greenhouse, and little pollen was produced (which
means their flowers might need a little help with a fine brush indoors — insects, especially bees, can be helpful as well).