It's funny. This year I have started to almost fear the heat in some of the varieties. And that is new for me. I have eaten chile peppers for 20 years... It's the fault of all my 7 pods :-)
And this one. The black naga. It's almost like it is looking at me, smiling, knowing, how hot it will be when I eat it. Anyway, it's definitely a beautiful pod. Both in shape and in colour.
Hot regards,
Mats
Hehehe, Mats, ja man ser ju smilet i frukten!!! :) Jaa, det gäller ju att odla det som går åt mest! :) Skämt åsido skulle jag gärna både odla och smaka just den, även om jag man får lära sig leva med smärtan efteråt! Ha det gott! :) Mia
ReplyDeleteHej Mia! Haha, ja, de här heta rackarna tar ju knäcken på en. :-) Tur att man har en och annan basilika också! Trevlig helg! //Mats
ReplyDeleteHello Mats! This black naga is interesting. I have bought 2010 lila bhut jolokia seeds from German eBay. 2011 I have one bush and it produced few pods. I collected seeds and germinated about 10 seeds to season 2012. All have produced first nice violet and dark violet pods. 1 bush have also quit dark leafs. Suddenly all (inc. over year mother bush) have start make red pods. I don't understand what has happen. Now this years bushes have also again violet/lila pods, but dark leafs has quit normal color back. I have fret this quite many times. I have spesial variety and next day I don't. Funny.
ReplyDeleteSo, reason why I have write this is that black naga. It have quite similar pod shape (not naga morich type) and quite same type color (not so dark). I think I have to look information about this black naga. My orginal seeds might be some hybrid version of this. I have written my lila bhut jolokia on my blog. Language is only finnish, but you can look images. ;) http://chilitunari.blogspot.fi/2012/08/villeja-projekteja.html (at end)
http://chilitunari.blogspot.fi/2012/06/bhut-jolokiani-ovat-sekundaa.html
http://chilitunari.blogspot.fi/2012/05/bhut-jolokia-dark-lila.html
Hello! I'm not very good at these super hot varieties, since I have not grown enough of them. But it sounds really weird that they produce pods with different colours on the same plant. I've never seen that. The only reason I can possibly imagine is that they lack or are over exposed to some minerals or nutritients somehow. Have you changed soil or fertilizer?
ReplyDeleteI have not tried the black naga yet. I got burned from the 7 pods I tried, and I ate a naga jolokia this weekend, so I'm sort of full :-)
What I am very curious of is to see if they have any seeds. None of the chiles I have harvested this year has had any seeds. That is one thing I've never experienced.
You have a very nice site, even if I don't understand :-) Nice pictures!
Kind regards,
Mats
Hello!
DeleteThank You for commenting! :)
Soil and fertilizer was same when different colors pods have arrived. This moment I have other fertilizer witch have lower nitrogen. But color changes might be possible from unbalanced nitrogen-potassium state. I don't know. Mine lilas have seeds, but I have collected pods too early and seed was undevelopement. Now I have collected wrong colors pods out of bush and lilas ones has have more darker. After all, this is exiting. :)
Hi again!
DeleteIt sure is exciting! Good luck with your growing!
Regards,
Mats
Hello!
ReplyDeleteFinally mystery has been solved. :)
My chili is Bhut Jolokia Purple. It's not so real Bhut Jolokia, but using that name you can found something about this variety.
More information can be found behind this link:
http://thepepperseed.com/peppers/the-purple-bhut-jolokia-buyer-beware/
Unstable pod colors is common to this hybrid variaty.
Hi!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the update! Very interesting! I like the way you conclude. Unstable pod colors. :-)
My pod colours are until now not unstable. They are green, and all varieties are quite, not to say very late. More about that later.
Kind regards
Mats