{"id":5997,"date":"2014-10-23T13:47:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T17:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newprocontainers.com\/blog\/?p=5997"},"modified":"2026-05-22T21:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T01:10:17","slug":"ghost-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.newprocontainers.com\/blog\/ghost-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ghost in the Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"page-intro\">I\u2019ve been trying to figure out a good blog post for Halloween that relates to horticulture, and while I was watering my patio garden, it occurred to me that there&#8217;s a ghost in my garden.<\/p>\n<p>Planted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newprocontainers.com\/pages\/category\/self-watering-planters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">self-watering planter<\/a>\u00a0is my <em>naga jolokia<\/em>, a funky, crinkled-shaped red hot pepper plant that\u2019s better known as the \u201cghost pepper.\u201d How the ghost pepper got its name, I\u2019m not sure, but I do know it\u2019s one of the hottest peppers in the world, and one bite can make a person disappear into the bathroom. So much heat, in fact, it&#8217;s 1,000,000 Scoville units on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scoville_scale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoville heat scale<\/a>. As a reference, ghost peppers are 401.5 times hotter than Tabasco sauce.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6005\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newprocontainers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Puppers-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ghost Peppers\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.newprocontainers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Puppers-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/blog.newprocontainers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Puppers.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/>Have I eaten a ghost pepper, you ask? Honestly, I\u2019ve only dabbed my finger on some boiled ghost pepper sauce, then touched the tip of my tongue, and my whole mouth and throat burned for a few minutes. My tongue was numb for the next hour.<\/p>\n<p>If you are into the hot sauce craze, this is your plant. I had no idea the lengths some heat fanatics will go to find a new, bigger, and hotter sauce to make your eyes water, your nose run, and make your throat feel like you just swallowed a pincushion. While sightseeing in St. Augustine, a spooky historic town, I even found an entire store solely dedicated to selling hot sauces from around the world. A friend of mine likes to create his own special ghost sauce, and when he does, you can\u2019t enter his kitchen without feeling like you just got maced. He sold the recipe to raise money for his fire hall, and now he mostly makes the sauce to see who\u2019s brave enough to try it.<\/p>\n<p>Besides being a novelty plant, there is another reason we should have the guts to eat a ghost pepper. Capsaicin, the very compound that gives peppers their heat, is currently being studied to treat cancer, arthritis, migraines, muscle pain, digestive problems, high blood pressure, weight loss, and low energy. Can you imagine this weird-looking red pod being able to kill and stop cancer like a ghost that can penetrate the body and wipe out the evil cancer invading our healthy cells? Or take away the horrible pain after surgery or the crippling effects of arthritis? How wonderful would it be to come home from an exhausting day at work and, by ingesting a little amount of capsaicin, you find all the energy needed to finish all the laundry, clean the house, make dinner, and get the kids ready for bed, all while losing weight?<\/p>\n<p>Over the last thirteen years, I have experienced excruciating intestinal pain, twenty surgeries, inflammatory arthritis, muscle aches, and fatigue, and if this pepper can help ease any of these issues without the bad side effects other traditional medications have, I\u2019m planting a whole field of these ghosts. As horticulturists, I think it is our duty to promote research such as this. Wouldn\u2019t it be amazing if the cure for cancer could be growing in our own backyards or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newprocontainers.com\/pages\/category\/outdoor-planters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">patio containers<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Then, perhaps, the ghost pepper should be renamed the miracle pepper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been trying to figure out a good blog post for Halloween that relates to horticulture, and while I was watering my patio garden, it occurred to me that there&#8217;s a ghost in my garden. 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