Spice level 9-10

Products that might be useful for home gardening with a garden or balcony

In our online shop, you will find special potting soil for seeds as well as our Organic Chili Fertiliser. Both products can be used in combination to achieve first-class results. It is a long journey from seedlings to fruits which a ready for harvesting. Along this way, you should take good care of your future chilies if you want to come close to achieving spice levels of 9 or even 10.

Advice for growing chilies from seed

If you want to grow these hot peppers in your own garden or on your balcony then here are some good tricks to help you become more successful if you want to be rewarded with a good harvest of 9-10 rated chilies. In reality it is virtually impossible to achieve this high degree of spiciness in our climate if you do not make the most of every possible opportunity. Even then it is not guaranteed that you will reach a 9 or 10, but your chilies will still be very hot if you heed the following advice. The bih or bhut jolokia has a very long maturation period of at least 110 days. This means that they need every ray of sunshine they can get to help them achieve their hellish spicy heat. You should start watering your chili seeds from mid-February, placing them on damp cotton wool or in damp potting soil. Leave the seeds to germinate in a place, where the temperature is consistently over 20°C and there is normal daylight. When the seedlings on the cotton wool have grown to be around 4-5cm tall, you should very carefully plant them in potting soil. If you choose to germinate the chili seeds in the soil from the very beginning, then this step is unnecessary. Stabilise the baby plants with a thin stick and some twine. Be careful not to damage the stalk or roots when doing so. Water the plants a maximum of once a week and only add a very small amount of fertiliser to the water you use. The seedlings grow very quickly and will become stronger and stronger if well looked after. Then, once the warmer season begins, you should place the plant pots in the sun. However, the full strength of the midday sun should be avoided. A place where the plants can get some shade around noon would be perfect. As the fruit bodies begin to develop, you should start to use a little more fertiliser and water the plants twice a week during this phase. The soil should be damp, but not wet. Make the most of the natural sunlight until the end of August/middle of September. By this time, strong and healthy fruits should have formed and these should have fully ripened. We hope you succeed in growing many juicy peppers from our chili seeds with a spicy heat rating of 9-10.