Melt your face in your own backyard with ghost chili pepper plants

The heat in the kitchen is nothing compared with what could be growing in your backyard. Boing Boing posted about ghost pepper plants, not just seeds, for sale on the Internet. The bhut jolokia (ghost chili) pepper, sold at ghostchilipeppersdeal.com, is the Guinness World Record holder for hottest pepper on Earth. It measures 1,001,304 on the Scoville scale, the standard for determining the heat of a pepper — that’s about 300 times stronger than a jalapeno.

And for $16 (including shipping), you can test the limits of your common sense and ability to withstand heat.