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    seeds EXPERIMENTAL GERMINATION will seeds from frozen pods germinate

    Some seeds break dormancy after freezing (because that means winter is over and its ok to sprout) but chile originated in warmer climates, so I doubt that they would respond in that way. And they may never have developed a tolerance to being frozen...so like meinchoh said, freezing could damage...
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    Questions about how capsaicin works...

    I've got some undergrad students in a class I'm teaching who are doing a senior project on capsaicinoid extraction and they asked me the very same question. Didn't have an answer for them, so did a journal search and found only one article ("sensory properties of naturally occurring...
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