

Are they fresh or dried Zoe? Dried are always hotter than fresh. I've never used any bhut jolokia peppers, never even heard of them lol.
Sorry I can't be of more help. Good luck with it though.
Blessings.
Willow
Thanks Zoe. I say if you can stand the hot then go for it girl lol.
Kudos to you for growing all those little hotties.
Willow
Hi Zoe,
Uny has posted about the ghost peppers in the past.
"NOW - just in case some of you 'pepper heads' think that's just too weeny ::::HUGE eyeroll::: - we've done something especially for you. We've made a blend of powder that is 3 parts ground African Bird Pepper and 1/4 ::::drumroll please::: .... BHUT JOLOKIA POWDER (organic). Bhut Jolokias (aka Ghost Pepper, because they turn you into an apparition, lol) is THE hottest pepper in the world (anywhere from 2-10x hotter than a Habanero, depending upon type and growing conditions). The price is 24.00 for 2 ounces - it is listed under 'Other Blends' as: Bhut Jolokia & African Bird Pepper Powder.
I do NOT recommend this powder for anything but seasoning unless you are EASILY able to ingest a full teaspoon of our our original powder...and even then, start at 1/8th of teaspoon."
http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp
"Actually, the Red Savina has been unseated as the hottest pepper - the hottest now is the Naga/Bhut Jolokia (or Ghost Pepper): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naga_Jolokia_pepper
Naga Jolokia translates to "King Cobra Cayenne"...yikes. (I have a pound of organic powder, but after I opened the bag and took a whiff...I felt fear, lol).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Savina
The thing we need to remember (mostly) is that when peppers are dried, they become MUCH hotter than their stated H.U. (Heat Units). Dr. Christopher did ALL his healing with African Bird Peppers (100-150K H.U. when raw). Dr. Schulze upped the ante and added Habaneros (250-350K when raw). BUT, even though Dr. Schulze advertises his powder/tincture to be 250,000 HU (or hotter)...his ingredient list reads like this:
Botanical Ingredients: Dr. Schulze’s special blend of Habanero, California Jalapeño, African Bird, Chinese Bird, Korean Aji, Japanese and Thai Red Peppers.
Jalapenos are rated at only 8,000 HU.
Do I think you should use Red Savina's in a tincture? I think if they're dried, you'd end up with a product that virtually no one would be able to handle. If you could get raw ones, that'd still likely be less hot than the dried Habaneros (or maybe even the dried Bird Peppers)."
I won't include the whole post, its long, but this post from Uny is excellent on "hotness" in tinctures.
I'd say if you're used to eating all things "hot" then you might be able to handle it lol, but if you were to have to use it on someone in an emergency it'd be awfully hot for them lol. Hope this helps.
Blessings
Willow
Hi Momo, that is fantastic news, growing your own habbies and from seed is even more of an accomplishment! Wow, 3 gallons of them, I'll join you in your excitement. I've never seen a peachy colored habbie, mine were red.
Do you have any Debbie Meyer Green Bags? www.greenbags.com/ You can get them from that website, on eBay and probably in some stores or from HSN. I've been using them for a few years now and they really do keep produce much longer. When I got my habbies they were ripe but I had to wait for the new moon so I put them in a green bag and stored them in the veggie bin of my fridge. Just make sure they are completely dry before you store them in the bag.
If your habbies aren't ripe yet instead of ripening them in a paper bag I'd just let them set out until they were ripe, then put them in a green bag in the fridge until new moon. I'm sure they'd keep fine. I've got a head of lettuce that was hiding from me in my veggie drawer lol I found yesterday that had been in a green bag for going on 3 weeks now and I had a salad of it tonight, it was still crisp!
If it came right down to it and I was going to lose the habbies because they were going bad, I'd go ahead and tincture them even if it wasn't new moon. I know you aren't supposed to but I'd rather do that than lose those precious habbies that you grew from seed! We gotta do what we gotta do lol. But I don't really think you'll have to worry about it if you get the green bags, especially since they aren't ripe yet.
Or, you could just dry them and use them in the new moon cycle but of course you'd have to adjust for the hotness for sure. Maybe next season I'll try to grow some habbies, lots of them.
I'm having so much fun watching and shaking all my tinctures! I can imagine how great you feel looking at what you grew from seed.
Blessings.
Willow
I can't speak to the Dr. Schulze cayenne tincture since I've never had it. I can say that I've had several bottles of cayenne tincture from Uny and they all taste the same to me except for the fact that I've gotten used to the "hot" burn.
The first time I took her tincture I did what I call the "cayenne happy dance" all around my kitchen but along about the 4th day or so it didn't burn nearly as bad and after months of using it its even less now. I think the fact that the hot feels less hot is in reality due to my taste buds having built up a tolerance for the "hot" taste.
Have you considered this possibility? Just my thoughts on the matter.
Blessings.
Willow