It's cute that I put "this year" in the message. To clarify, this is also my first year of gardening period, so I'm a total mess.

Gardens 2 Grow(Lisa) and cross-country nursery's are good. May not have any bhut's but I have used them and i always have been satisfied.Here are the links http://gardens2grow.biz/ and http://www.chileplants.com/. What's nice about Lisa at gardens2grow is there is no set limit you have to purchase. Good luck

where do you live?

Hi Paceyswitters last year I purchased from www.greenhousebusiness.com/ click on Bhut Jolokia. I ordered two plants and they grew great and produced great peppers. I overwintered them one died but it was my fault the other is alive and has lots of new growth. Also from the pods I have saved germinated seeds the are now healthy little seedlings.

The most popular place referred amongst pepper forums is Cross Country Nurseries, but their website is known as Chileplants.com: http://www.chileplants.com/

They have a 12 plant minimum but you'll probably find a few other varieties you like.

Burpee also sells live plants but i don't know if they carry Bhuts: http://www.burpee.com/vegetables/peppers/garden-ready-pepper-plants/

Here is a link that might be useful: Cross Country Nurseries link

here is where i got my plants. he is located in San Deigo.
http://myorganicseeds.auctivacommerce.com/Chile-Pepper-Plants-C193003.aspx?sid=14895

I was looking at the link posted above. Are those the REAL scotch bonnet peppers? I'm trying to find someone online for plants of true scotch bonnets, lemon drop, and anything similar.

if you go to refiningfirechilis.com jim Duffy is a great guy and he goes to long lengths to ensure there is not cross polination. if he says its a scoth bonnet then yes it is.

Sorry for the belated response; I'm in the middle of finals so I'm a bit of a disaster.

I live in MT. I'll check out the links above later this evening. Thanks for all the helpful responses!

I ended up buying 4 bhuts through Amazon due to the minimum purchase limits at the other sites. They're through Hirt Seeds, who apparently have a bunch of negative reviews from last season due to shipping Habs as Bhuts; I have to assume they've learned their lesson, and the price was right ($10) so I'll let ya'll know.

You will end up with some red habs. Hirts is awful about sending something it isn't but those red habs will be hotter than #@#$$%! As you can tell I bought some bhuts from Hirts that ended up being red habs. Two of them are still producing lots of pods two years later.

Well, the reviews from the past couple months claim that they're shipping Bhuts now, but we'll see. If they're habs, I'll try to think back to 1L UCC & Contracts and raise some hell with Amazon :)

Update: I received the plants today from Hirts; fairly well packaged, and no immediately apparent insects, but something's definitely been chewing on them. Hopefully they killed whatever it is off before it shipped; I have to believe there are fairly strict regulations about double checking plants before they go out. I ordered habs & bhuts; I wrly observed that while the little ID stick for the habs has a picture and description on it, the one for bhuts just say "Bhut Jolokia". I suppose it's possible that they sell many more habs than Bhuts and thus its impractical to print custom color pictures for the latter, but still rather convenient and more circumstantial evidence for the proposition that they're intentionally shipping habs as bhuts.