My buddy has purchased seed from seedrack.com -
he gave me six seeds, and five of them sprouted into seedlings.
The first seed sprouted between 7 - 9 days; the other seeds sprouted between 9 - 11 days.
Good luck!

Josh

Midwest Chileheads has seeds. I think I purchased the last of the plants from Hirts, but there should be some other plant vendors out there.

Here is a link that might be useful: Midwest Chileheads

louisea_2010,

With all do respect to the previous posters, type NMSU CPI in Google. The New Mexico Chili Pepper Institute is the original source for true Bhut Jolika seeds.

Trade list?
E mail address?
Would help in finding seeds...

Just a heads up on Seed Rack. We got seeds from them last year. We ordered Bhuts and that is what the package said.....but they turned out to be Habs. Hot Habs, but not what we wanted. NMSU is a good place.

Since the topic is "hot pepper", I have a few questions:

1- Is anybody ,reading this thread, growing MANZANA?
I am growing it from a fresh manzana that I bough from Asian market.
It was very meaty and juicy and of course hot.
2 - Also growing some Korean. I also bought the seeds from Korean marke.
The description on the package was in Korean, I think.
Anybody is growing that one? What do you think about it?
2 - One more; I have got seeds from a dry pod, from Indo-Pakistani store.
The size and shap of it (dried) was like a walnut.
Anybody knows the name of it?

Thanks
cyrus

cyrus_gardener, I am responding to question 1. I don't know if it is the same variety, but I am growing some Monzano peppers this year. They go by many names, and I have seen different spellings, but I'm told they are bell-shaped, meaty and very hot. Yellow ones are described as Chile Peron, Chile Caballo, and Chile Ciruelo. I found them when searching for rocoto or locoto peppers. I'm told they are from peru, and they have black seeds (Capsicum pubescens). I am growing red, yellow and orange varieties. I've never grown them before, but hope this helps.

Thanks midwestchilehead,

Since I got the seeds of manzano from fresh peppers, I agree that they are bellshaped but much smaller.
Also, as you mentioned, the seeds were black.
One more special characteristic about Manzano is that its leaves are somewhat fuzzy, not shiny like all other pepper plants that I have seen.
I like Mazano better than habanero because , as you have said, it is much meatier and juicy.
The other that I got the dry pod from Indian store, had a mini bell shape too but its seeds and seedling leaf are just like all other peppers.

cyrus