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Got My First Baby Nagas/Bhuts

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Well I finally have some Naga Dorests, Naga Jolokias, Bhut Jolokias, and Yellow Mushrooms,and 2 orange Manzanos germinated. Still waiting for my overseas trades to arrive. but my south Fla. sun and heat has finally made all these sprout..and some...not a single sprout yet!
No red paper lanterns, or yellow Manzanos yet.
BUT so far. i have new sprouts every morning I go out and look in the pots!!
Now I pray I dont get any 'damping off' or an active snail in the night that like hot pepper plants. Are the baby plants hot to? do they have any oils in them...or are the just fresh greens for any hungry bug?:?:
 
I've wondered for quite some time if animals can taste the heat in peppers. My parents have, from time to time, problems with deer chomping off the peppers. I'd like to think that those stupid animals get their butt's on fire, but I don't think it happens becuase they come back year after year.
 
Yes animals can feel the heat, mammals anyhow. Have a friend who lost his both of his sheep after they ate habs and drank themselves to death, no joke. Plus almost got my cat. Birds bugs and other pests can't feel the heat though, just mammals as far as I know.
 
i know birds don't have the receptor to feel the spicyness, but i'm not sure about bugs and the like. people have used 'organic pest deterent' that was basically just crushed up pepper and pepper flakes? i donno.
 
teh purple penguins said:
i know birds don't have the receptor to feel the spicyness, but i'm not sure about bugs and the like. people have used 'organic pest deterent' that was basically just crushed up pepper and pepper flakes? i donno.
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it's the same with black pepper, birds are fine with it but mammals feel it. we have a lot of critters getting to our veggies before us and i would regularly douse them in some pepper, only every time it rains you have to re-do it and the little furry bastards ussually beat me to it. i saw a commercial critter deterrant and looked at the ingrediants and it was just capsaicin and black pepper. it's an evolutionary thing, the seeds can't make it through a mammals digestive tract alive but are still viable after going through a birds.
 
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