Here is the first part on really hot peppers. Just to start, in the last 8 years we have seen a lot of changes with super hot peppers and the world record heat. The Bhut Jolokia, or ghost pepper was twice the previous record holder, which was just amazing to everyone. The ghost came in at over 1 million scoville heat units. I think it held the did for a solid 5 years. Then came some people in England that came up with the "Naga Viper" at 1.3 M SHUs, but nothing was released in the US until there was already a new official record holder, the Trinidad Butch T Scorpion at 1,463,700 SHUs. About two years ago the hot pepper institute performed an experiment and got the Moruga scorpion to reach 2,009,000. It never made the book though. The new official record holder is now the Carolina Reaper at around 2.2 M. I am growing a pepper that is hotter, and others are also working on the next record holder, but for now, it's the CR. This will get us started, more to come. Tom
